Conceptual Framework: Teaching and Leading Beyond

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University of Maryland University College Professional Education Unit, 2013

Professional Educational Unit Objectives

1. Teaching for Learning
2. Analysis, Reflection and Continuous Improvement
3. Technology Integration and Digital Citizenship
4. Creativity, Innovativeness, and Adaptability
5. Local, National and Global Community
6. Instructional Leadership

Teaching for Learning

Objective: The candidate acts upon academic content, professional and pedagogical
knowledge, and understanding of students to maximize student achievement.

● Proficiency 1-1: The candidate knows subject matter deeply and makes
interrelated connections across disciplines, guiding students to understand
content critically and in-depth.
● Proficiency 1-2: The candidate integrates knowledge of students and their
backgrounds to teach for student success.
● Proficiency 1-3: Through scaffolding student learning, the candidate moves
students increasingly toward complex understandings.
● Proficiency 1-4: To ensure that all students learn well, the candidate employs
various types of presentation and response modes, as well as accommodations
and instructional differentiations.
● Proficiency 1-5: The candidate organizes group learning structures to promote
critical thinking and problem solving while nurturing individual student
participation.

Analysis, Reflection and Continuous Improvement

Objective: The candidate engages in an ongoing process of reflection, re-planning,
testing, and refining for continuous improvement.

● Proficiency 2-1: The candidate reviews student performance data from multiple
sources, analyzes strengths and weaknesses, and plans for re-teaching or
varying the teaching strategies.
Conceptual Framework: Teaching and Leading Beyond
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University of Maryland University College Professional Education Unit, 2013

● Proficiency 2-2: The candidate meets with other educators, including mentors,
specialists, and team leaders, as well as parents to enhance understanding of
students.
● Proficiency 2-3: The candidate reviews professional literature, online resources,
and technology tools to expand professional and pedagogical knowledge
relevant to the situation.
● Proficiency 2-4: The candidate creates and implements improvement plans,
procedures, desired learning outcomes, and continues the process of
professional learning through the continuous improvement process.

Technology Integration and Digital Citizenship

Objective: The candidate demonstrates selection and integration of technology to
deepen and personalize student learning and to prepare students to participate actively
and ethically in a digitally connected world.

● Proficiency 3-1: The candidate uses a variety of technologies that empower

students to learn effectively within and beyond the boundaries of the face-to-face
classroom.
● Proficiency 3-2: The candidate uses technology to promote student-centered
learning that is both assistive and differentiated to meet individual learning
needs.
● Proficiency 3-3: The candidate promotes students’ cyber safety and their use of
responsible and ethical practices within and beyond the boundaries of the
classroom.

Creativity, Innovativeness, and Adaptability

Objective: The candidate integrates creativity, innovativeness, and adaptability into the
curriculum, promoting opportunities for discovery, deep learning, and originality.

● Proficiency 4-1: The candidate provides learning environments for students to

explore, experiment, and achieve novel solutions and outcomes.
● Proficiency 4-2: The candidate models and facilitates unique responses, ideas,
designs, and products.
Conceptual Framework: Teaching and Leading Beyond
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University of Maryland University College Professional Education Unit, 2013

Local, National and Global Community

Objective: The candidate integrates into instruction the political, economic, cultural and
ecological concepts of global citizenship.

● Proficiency 5-1: The candidate teaches with a focus on the political, economic,
cultural, and ecological interdependency of the world.
● Proficiency 5-2: Through local, national, and global learning communities, the
candidate engages students in collaborative exchange of diverse perspectives.

Instructional Leadership
Objective: The candidate initiates change and mobilizes the learning community toward
the goal of curriculum and organizational improvement, influencing the practice,
character and culture for learning.

● Proficiency 6-1: The candidate promotes a vision of active, continuous and

engaged learning in the classroom.
● Proficiency 6-2: The candidate advocates for the needs of students with other
school professionals, and for resources needed to help students succeed.
● Proficiency 6-3: The candidate promotes and implements the professional
development of educators to improve student achievement.
● Proficiency 6-4: The candidate engages other educators, parents, and
community members in activities and partnerships that support student learning.