2.1 Create an inclusive and supportive learning environment in which all students can engage in learning.

2.2 Use ELA to help students become familiar with their own and others’ cultures.

2.3 Demonstrate reflective practice, involvement in professional organizations, and collaboration with faculty and other candidates.

2.4 Uses practices designed to assist students in developing habits of critical thinking and judgment.

2.5 Make meaningful connections between the ELA curriculum and developments in culture, society, and education.

3.1 Demonstrate knowledge of, and skills in the use of, the English language.

3.2 Demonstrate knowledge of the practices of oral, visual and written literacy.

3.3 Demonstrate knowledge of the reading process.

3.4 Demonstrate knowledge of different composing processes.

3.5 Demonstrate knowledge of, and uses for, an extensive range of literature.

3.6 Demonstrate knowledge of  the range and influence of print and nonprint media and technology in contemporary culture.
               
3.6.1 Understand how media can influence constructions of a text’s meaning, and how experiencing various media can enhance students’ composing process, communication and learning.

3.6.2 Show an ability to construct meaning from media and nonprint texts, and to assist students in learning these processes.

3.6.3 Incorporate technology and print/nonprint media into instruction.

4.1 Examine and select resources for instruction such as textbooks, other print materials, videos, films, records, and software appropriate for supporting the teaching of English language arts.

4.2 Create literate classroom communities by presenting varied structures and techniques for interactions by employing effective classroom management strategies and by providing students with opportunities for feedback and reflection.

4.3 Integrate interdisciplinary teaching strategies and materials into the teaching and learning process for students.

4.4 Create and sustain learning environments that promote respect for, and support of, individual differences of ethnicity, race, language, culture, gender and ability.

4.5 Engage students often in meaningful discussions for the purposes of interpreting and evaluating ideas presented through oral, written and/or visual forms.

4.6 Engage students in critical analysis of different media and communication technologies.

4.7 Engage students in learning experiences that consistently emphasize varied uses and purposes for language in communication.

4.8 Engage students in making meaning of texts through personal response.

4.9 Demonstrate that their students can select appropriate reading strategies that permit access to, and understanding of, a wide range of print and nonprint texts

4.10a Integrate assessment consistently into instruction by using a variety of formal and informal assessment activities and instruments to evaluate processes and products.

4.10b Integrate assessment consistently into instruction by creating opportunities to use a variety of ways to interpret and report assessment methods and results to students, parents, administrators and other audiences.