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Pillars of Educator Excellence

Teacher Advocacy

Educators learn approaches for advocating in response to Illinois EDIA education policies for and with their students, colleagues, and selves.
Culturally Responsive Teaching

Educators will engage in self-examination to address personal biases and microaggressions, and will learn about how to use cultural humility, critical inquiry, and critical self-care to engage EDIA in their classrooms and with the school communities.
Professional Learning

Invites educators to explore opportunities to ensure that they stay up-to-date with the latest teaching methods and trends.
Constructive Criticism

Addresses productive ways to receive feedback from instructors and to offer feedback to their students. Includes information about how the nervous system responds to feedback and offers strategies for managing strong emotions that arise with academic feedback.
Organization

Supports educators in developing an organizational approach for lesson plans and materials; encourages and promotes flexibility as an organizational mindset to planning; explores the importance and reasons for punctuality and attendance, and prepares educators with the tools to meet deadlines and obligations, and to engage effective communication.

Navigating your Resources

Learn about how to find your content test, where to register, and where to find information for how to study for your content test, including how to access practice tests when they are available for your content area.
Time Management and Study Skills

Create a study plan that fits with your unique style and schedule.
Reading the Test Questions

Learn strategies for deconstructing the test questions.
Test Taking Anxiety

Understand how the body responds to stress and learn practices for managing the anxiety that is evoked in high stress situations.
Vocabulary

Learn about how to strategically use and study vocabulary on the test.