Field experiences provide teacher education students opportunities for decision making, resolving conflicts, and reflecting on their own practices. Understanding both formal and informal assessment strategies to evaluate student progress and evaluation theory enables future teachers to adapt instruction and evaluation to provide for individual student differences and to ensure continuous intellectual, social, and physical development of the learner. These future teachers, therefore, utilize this knowledge and skill in grouping students effectively. The licensure area prepares students in teacher education to collaborate with colleagues to improve schools and advance knowledge in their field. They also collaborate with families, school colleagues, resource persons, and community groups to achieve common goals for their students.
Future teachers work with families, resource people, and community groups to impact their students.
The program coursework encourages students to be reflective teachers who continually evaluate their actions and practices and who continually seek to improve professionally. The licensure area includes broad, multidisciplinary, and encompassing preparation within the teaching fields so that each teacher has a thorough understanding and knowledge of subject matter and creates effective learning experiences for students. At least one course is designed specifically for teaching pedagogy within the age-level appropriateness of the licensure area. Field experience Field experience provides early and continued involvement in a variety of settings within the teacher preparation program. These experiences span a range of school settings and contexts and include experience in non-school settings.