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Understandings (Knowledge) |
Practices (Skills) |
Professional Commitments (Dispositions) |
- Understanding of Deaf cultures and communities.
- Knowledge of the structures of ASL and English.
- Knowledge of how Deaf and hearing people make successful connections and adaptations in their interactions with each other
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- Set up and advocate deaf-hearing relationships
- Demonstrate sign and written language competency appropriate to their field.
- Fluent in ASL and English
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Value deaf-hearing partnerships
Sensitivity to Deaf culture
Equally value both ASL and English
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- Identify sources of information such as professional organizations appropriate to local, national, and international situations in which students find themselves.
- Understands cultures of students and families, and fellow professionals.
- Knowledge of the continuum of diverse populations
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- Adapts and individualizes to be effective with students and professionals from other cultures
- Demonstrate ability to impact P-12 learning in a variety of local, national, and international practicum experiences
- Encourage and support diverse perspectives in P-12 students
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Cherish and appreciate diversity
Membership in local, national, and international organizations (professional and advocacy)
Respect for local, global, and national communities unique strengths, needs, interests, and perspectives |
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Strong knowledge base in the theory, research, and best practices, in regular, special, and deaf education, and related fields
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- Applies knowledge of theory and empirically supported principles in teaching
- Shows skill in assessing students, identifying most effective strategies for teaching, and evaluating those strategies
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Willingness to learn and apply new technology and to continue as a lifelong learner
Willingness to support instructional practices with theory or research
Desire to keep learning
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- Know how to reflect on and pursue lifelong learning
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Pursues reflective inquiry and lifelong learning
Prepare portfolios that demonstrate ability to be self reflective |
Appreciate that self-reflection promotes personal and professional growth and a commitment to self-reflection
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