The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards

1. Teachers are committed to students and their learning. 
   Accomplished teachers are dedicated to making knowledge accessible to all students. They act on the belief that all students can learn. They treat students equitably, recognizing the individual differences that distinguish one student from another and taking account of these differences in their practice. 
   
   
2. Teachers know the subjects they teach and how to teach those subjects to students.
   Accomplished teachers have a rich understanding of the subject(s) they teach and appreciate how knowledge in their subject is created, organized, linked to other disciplines and applied to real-world settings.
    
   
3. Teachers are responsible for managing and monitoring student learning.
   Accomplished teachers create, enrich, maintain and alter instructional settings to capture and sustain the interest of their students and to make the most effective use of time. They also are adept at engaging students and adults to assist their teaching and at enlisting their colleagues' knowledge and expertise to complement their own.
   Jeopardy Game -This game will maintain and engage all students to assist in their learning experience.
   Light Bulb Game-This game will alter the instructional setting to capture the students attention.
   
4. Teachers think systematically about their practice and learn from experience. Accomplished teachers are models of educated persons, exemplifying the virtues they seek to inspire in students -- curiosity, tolerance, honesty, fairness, respect for diversity and appreciation of cultural differences -- and the capacities that are prerequisites for intellectual growth: the ability to reason and take multiple perspectives to be creative and take risks, and to adopt an experimental and problem-solving orientation. 
   Drug Awareness --Each student will be able to take multiple perspectives they hear from classmates and use this to adopt their own ideas through listening and participating in the drug awareness project.
   
   
5. Teachers are members of learning communities.
   Accomplished teachers contribute to the effectiveness of the school by working collaboratively with other professionals on instructional policy, curriculum development and staff development. 

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