Students will gain practice at collaborating and cooperating with other future educators. Students will gain practice at being active listeners and demonstrate respect for the views of others. Students will begin to develop a personal philosophy of education Students will become aware of their own responsibility for positive change, as a student and a future educator. Students will begin to develop a professional resource and mentoring network. Students will be encouraged to be creative and critical in their work.
Preparedness demands that all written and reading assignments are completed according to schedule .
Procrastination will impact a student's grade negatively if on-going work is not submitted. Preparedness also is reflected by contributions a student makes to class discussions that incorporate recent articles or current news items. Students are encouraged to share and verbally articulate ideas and questions. As a way of providing an opportunity for all of us to share our reflections about a common topic, students are asked to respond in writing and through discussion to a reading of a book by Herbert Kohl, Growing Minds . See if you can analyze things and connect any theories or principles of education that you may have learned elsewhere.