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2. Improves understanding of the academic, social, emotional, and physical needs of each learner and ensures that educators utilize appropriate teaching skills to enable students to meet or exceed their potential.

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2.1 enables educators to adjust instructional strategies  based on knowledge of how students learn and develop. NJPEP:
• Tutorials
Part 3. [Instructing for competency-based assessment] of the Elementary Assessment, Grade Eight Proficiency Assessment (GEPA), High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA) Helpful Hints, and
HSPA Classroom Activities and
Language Arts Literacy Secondary School Writing Assistance.
 Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) Tutorials. See:
- Differentiating Instruction
- The Brain and Learning
- Multicultural Education
- Inclusion, and others
2.2 enables educators to plan and design approaches and strategies to support the intellectual, social, and personal development of each learner.  NJDOE's Office of Special Education ASCD Tutorials. See:
- Multiple Intelligences
- Learning Styles
- Constructivism, and others
2.3 assists educators to recognize students' strengths and potential. NJPEP:
• Ed Research: Differentiated Learning 		The Curriculum Barriers Tutorial and the Curriculum Barriers Tool from Teaching Every Student (TES) section of the Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST) Web site
2.4 enables educators to respect students' talents, abilities and perspectives. NJPEP:
• Ed Research: Differentiated Learning, and Brain-Based Learning		 ASCD Tutorials. See:
- Multicultural Education
- Inclusion, and others
2.5 enables educators to plan and design instructional strategies for inclusive classrooms.

NJPEP:
• Ed Research: Differentiated Learning

NJDOE's Office of Special Education

 U.S. Department of Education (US ED): Interagency Committee on Disability Research.
2.6 encourages the establishment of a learning environment that enhances student learning and critical thinking. NJPEP:
• Tutorials
Part 2. [Thinking is critical!] of the Elementary, GEPA and HSPA Helpful Hints tutorials.

• Critical Thinking [online] resources from TeAch-nology.com.
• The Center For Critical Thinking Mentor Program: Eight 3-day workshops Over A Three Year Period - from the Critical Thinking Consortium.
2.7 supports a philosophy of school and classroom-based management which maximizes student learning. NJPEP:
•Online Courses: courses via New Jersey universities and county colleges; and via organizations and universities around the world. See the "pedagogy" column in each section of the site.
ASCD Tutorials. See:
- Classroom Management