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The teacher understands how children with broad ranges of ability learn and provides instruction that supports their intellectual, social, and personal development.
 * 2 Teachers know how children grow. **

Evidence 1: 652 final paper



Rationale 1: This paper was titled The Future of Education. It addressed the transformations to education that technology will have. Some of the key points that I site in this paper include cross-disciplinary teaching, communities of learners and teachers and service-oriented learning. In my opinion our future students will be more active and independent learners because of technology. Students will play a greater role in setting their own more individualized objectives and choosing hands-on, community-based projects to meet their intellectual, social and personal development goals. Although I do not foresee teaching a totally online Spanish class in the near future, this class did influence my decision to pilot MOODLE this year. So far, I see many advantages in teaching parts of a class online but I still see the need for face-to-face interaction in a high school foreign language class.

2.K.1 The teacher understands how learning occurs -- how students construct knowledge, acquire skills, and develop habits of mind – and how to use instructional strategies that promote student learning for a wide range of student abilities.

The main purpose of this paper was to consider the future of education and how students will best learn. In the paper, I discuss a variety of instructional approaches to accommodate the many different types of learners

2.S.2 The teacher stimulates student reflection on prior knowledge and links new ideas to already familiar ideas, making connections to students’ experiences, providing opportunities for active engagement, manipulation, and testing of ideas and material, and encouraging students to assume responsibility for shaping their learning tasks

One of the key ideas from my paper is that the future of education will require a community of both learners and teachers. Students and teachers will need to develop connections in the community for job shadowing, apprenticing and learning projects.

2.D.1 The teacher appreciates individual variation at each developmental level and shows respect for the diverse talents of all learners, and is committed to help them develop self-confidence and competence.

One of the biggest advantages of online or hybrid courses is the flexibility of time and activities. As more technology is infused into education, our "digital natives" will be very comfortable learning at their own pace. Technology will also make it easier to individualize lessons and objectives for students.

