1. DEVELOPMENT, LEARNING AND MOTIVATION - Candidates know, understand, and use the major concepts, principles, theories, and research related to the development of children and young adolescents to construct learning opportunities that support individual students' development, acquisition of knowledge, and motivation.

2b. CURRICULUM STANDARD - Candidates know, understand, and use the fundamental concepts in the subject matter of science - including physical, life, and earth and space sciences -- as well as concepts in science and technology, science in personal and social perspectives, the history and nature of science, the unifying concepts of science, and the inquiry processes scientists use in discovery of new knowledge to build a base for scientific literacy.

2c. CURRICULUM STANDARD - Candidates know, understand, and use the major concepts, procedures, and reasoning processes of mathematics that define number systems and number sense, geometry, measurement, statistics and probability, and algebra in order to foster student understanding and use of patterns, quantities, and spatial relationships that can represent phenomena, solve problems, and deal with data.

3a. INSTRUCTION: ADAPTATION TO DIVERSE LEARNERS - Candidates understand how elementary students differ in their development and approaches to learning, and create instructional opportunities that are adapted to diverse learners.

3b. INSTRUCTION: DEVELOPMENT OF CRITICAL THINKING, PROBLEM SOLVING, PERFORMANCE SKILLS - Candidates understand and use a variety of teaching strategies that encourage elementary students' development of critical thinking, problem solving, and performance skills.

3c. INSTRUCTION: ACTIVE ENGAGEMENT IN LEARNING - Candidates use their knowledge and understanding of individual and group motivation and behavior among students at the K- 6 level to foster active engagement in learning, self motivation, and positive social interaction and to create supportive learning environments.

3d. INSTRUCTION: COMMUNICATION TO FOSTER COLLABORATION - Candidates use their knowledge and understanding of effective verbal, nonverbal, and media communication techniques to foster active inquiry, collaboration, and supportive interaction in the elementary classroom.

4. ASSESSMENT-- Candidates know, understand, and use formal and informal assessment strategies to evaluate and ensure the continuous intellectual, social, and physical development of each elementary student.