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An Explanation for the Descriptor "Adaptive"
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| Educators should be able to demonstrate
flexibility and strategic planning appropriate to a wide variety of
learners for effective, transformational systemic change. Schools
that positively impact the performance of students have personnel at
all levels who focus on changing instructional practices and
methodologies to meet students' needs (Fullan, 2000). In
educational settings that are increasingly diverse, educational
excellence depends substantially on the educator's ability to adapt
instruction, both content and presentation strategies, to students
who exhibit various levels of ability (Hallahan & Kauffman, 1997).
The content of the instruction should match appropriately the
students' knowledge base and experiential background so that newly
acquired information, skills, and dispositions can be internalized
and generalized to future situations both in and out of educational
setting (Danielson, 1996). Additionally, educators increasingly are
expected to work in collaboration with professionals from many
agencies, children from varying family structures.
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Presentation of Evidence That Portrays My Role As Adaptive
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