Students should leave the Teacher Education Program well-versed in their field and speaking and writing grammatically correct English. Observation and teaching in the classroom by teacher education students are the most important components in the Teacher Education Program. All teachers and teacher education students need to develop their own creativity and to experience and practice a student centered approach to teaching and learning. Teacher education students need to understand that children are diverse and have special needs. They need to believe that every student can learn and that a teacher can support or diminish a student's sense of self-worth.
All teachers are role models.
We, as a teacher education faculty, must provide appropriate models as a part of our instruction. Students who leave teacher education programs are not finished products. Rather, they need to be lifelong learners with high ethics and ideals. Teaching is a profession that is both an art and a science. There is a collective body of knowledge regarding effective teaching.