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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 schools connections or relevance of content and student agency. Learning and Teaching Evidence Evidence that Demonstrates Relevancy in Lessons Teachers show evidence that demonstrates how and why a particular lesson reflects relevancy based on the background knowledge and interests of current students. Evidence that Demonstrates Multiple Access Points for Instructional Content Teachers show evidence that provides students with multiple means of accessing instructional content based

on the student’s learning preference (e.g., video, print, audio). Evidence of a Culminating Project that Shows Connections

The teacher creates a project that allows students to demonstrate content mastery through submission of a choice of artifacts (e.g., essay, multimedia, oral report). Student work samples from the project are submitted. Artifacts could include:

• ​ 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 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) 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 preferences (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)

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