Standard 2: Completer Professional Growth and Adaptability (2025 Standards)

The Four AAQEP Standards

Standard 2 and its seven aspects read as follows.*

Program completers grow as professionals and adapt their practices to support student learning and development as appropriate to their role and context. Completers are able to:

  1. Communicate and foster relationships with families, guardians, and/or caregivers, and engage with the wider school community
  2. Enact culturally responsive and sustaining educational practices with diverse learners in diverse cultural and socioeconomic community contexts
  3. Create positive and productive learning and work environments in a variety of settings
  4. Incorporate international and global perspectives in their professional practice and understand the global implications of education
  5. Gather and use trustworthy evidence to support student learning and to inform their own professional practice
  6. Exhibit responsible professional conduct and engage in individual and collaborative goal-setting, learning, and professional growth
  7. Connect students, colleagues, and self to appropriate supports for mental well-being, including those related to trauma

Evidence for Standards 1 and 2 must include multiple measures from multiple perspectives, including the perspectives of program faculty, P-12 partners, program completers, and completers’ employers. In addition, available third-party data such as licensure and certification examination results and data gathered by states must be reported. Direct performance evidence is also required, as appropriate to the credential or role. Evidence of candidate as well as completer performance may be used. See the Guide to AAQEP Accreditation for details.

* Refer to the full 2025 expectations framework for descriptors that clarify differentiated application of these aspects to different types of programs. In keeping with Aspect 4g, AAQEP recognizes that providers will address each aspect using terms and definitions that are consistent with the state standards and legal requirements that apply to their work.
 

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