P: The teacher uses teaching approaches that are sensitive to the multiple experiences of learners and that address different learning and performance modes.
INTASC.3.Q
P: The teacher creates a learning community in which individual differences are respected.
INTASC.4
STANDARD: The teacher understands and uses a variety of instructional strategies to encourage students' development of critical thinking, problem solving, and performance skills.
INTASC.4.A
K: The teacher understands the cognitive processes associated with various kinds of learning (e.g. critical and creative thinking, problem structuring and problem solving, invention, memorization and recall) and how these processes can be stimulated.
INTASC.4.B
K: The teacher understands principles and techniques, along with advantages and limitations, associated with various instructional strategies (e.g. cooperative learning, direct instruction, discovery learning, whole group discussion, independent study, interdisciplinary instruction).
INTASC.4.D
D: The teacher values the development of students' critical thinking, independent problem solving, and performance capabilities.
INTASC.4.E
D: The teacher values flexibility and reciprocity in the teaching process as necessary for adapting instruction to student responses, ideas, and needs.
