Standard 6: Designs and provides meaningful learning experiences

STANDARD STATEMENT VI: The effective teacher consistently plans and implements, meaningful learning experiences for students.

Performance Criteria for Standard VI: The extent to which the teacher:

• Plans and implements logical, sequenced instruction and continually adjusts plans based on learner needs.
  
  
• Provides learning experiences and instructional materials that are developmentally appropriate and based on desired outcomes, principles of effective instruction and curricular goals.
  
  
• Incorporates a variety of appropriate assessment strategies as an integral part of instructional planning.
  
  
• Links concepts and key ideas to students’ prior experiences and understandings, using multiple representations, examples and explanations.
  
  
• Applies concepts that help students relate learning to everyday life.
  
  
• Provides integrated or interdisciplinary learning experiences that engage students in generating knowledge, using varied methods of inquiry, discussing diverse issues, dealing with ambiguity and incorporating differing viewpoints.
  
  
• Teaches for mastery of complex processes, concepts and principles contained in the Hawaii Content and Performance Standards .
  
  
• Provides knowledge and experiences that help students make life and career decisions.
  
  
• Organizes material and equipment to create a media-rich environment.