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Standard 4: Connections and Relevance Makes connections to purposefully engage learners in learning tasks relevant to the learner

Lines of Evidence The teacher provides evidence of learning tasks that connect to students’ background and interests through relevant learning opportunities and allow student agency and choice in accessing learning and demonstrating competency. Learning and Teaching Evidence shows connections or relevance of content and student agency.

Learning and Teaching Evidence • Canvas Course Screenshots • Lesson Planning Evidence • Presentation Slides •

Culminating Student Project that includes both: • Assignment description • Example of student work (completed project)

Benchmark Criteria

Highly Effective:

All of the following: • Learning and Teaching Evidence that demonstrates how and why a particular lesson reflects relevancy based on the background knowledge and interests of current students. • Learning and Teaching Evidence that provides students with multiple means of accessing instructional conten t based on the student’s learning preference (e.g., video, print, audio). • Culminating Student Project that allows students to demonstrate content mastery through submission of a choice of artifacts (e.g., essay, multimedia, oral report). Effective: • Learning and Teaching Evidence that demonstrates how and why a particular lesson reflects relevancy based on the background knowledge and interests of current students. AND one of the following: • Learning and Teaching Evidence that provides students with multiple means of accessing instructional content based on the student’s learning preference (e.g., video, print, audio). • Culminating Student Project that allows students to demonstrate content mastery through submission of a choice of artifacts (e.g., essay, multimedia, oral report). Emerging Effective/Minimally Effective: One of the following: • Learning and Teaching Evidence that demonstrates how and why a particular lesson reflects relevancy based on the background knowledge and interests of current students.

• Learning and Teaching Evidence that provides students with multiple means of accessing instructional content based on the student’s learning preference (e.g., video, print, audio). • Culminating Student Project that allows students to demonstra te content mastery through submission of a choice of artifacts (e.g., essay, multimedia, oral report).

Not Effective: •

No evidence of relevance and connections submitted.

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