STANDARDS OF PRACTICE FOR INTERNATIONAL TEACHER LEADERS OF MULTILINGUAL LEARNERS

The international teacher leader consistently demonstrates an exceptional ability to:

1. Effectively apply the most up-to-date, research-based strategies to scaffold the content and language integrated learning experiences of multilingual learners.
   

2. Model the skills and attitudes of global citizenship, multilingualism, antiracism, and intercultural sensitivity and proactivity.

3. Support learning in a culture of transition and mobility.
   

4. Collaborate positively with all members of the school community (students, colleagues, parents, leaders).
   

5. Collaboratively plan, implement, and assess interdisciplinary literacies with primary classroom teachers or secondary subject-specific teachers for multilingual learners enrolled in international schools.
   

6. Skillfully and positively contribute to the curriculum development and monitoring processes.
   

7. Ensure that his/her work results in acceptable and measurable multilingual learners’ progress.
   

8. Use the student assessment process to improve learning and teaching.
   

9. Think systematically, reflect on, and learn from practice.