Students will complete a reading journal and a written exam in which they will demonstrate factual knowledge as well as justify and explaining their decision making and reasoning in hypothetical and real-life teaching situations. Students will make presentations to their peers and will collaborate with peers and cooperating teachers in planning and analyzing their plans and teaching experiences. Teachers are able to plan different kinds of lessons. Teachers know how to test for student progress. In class assignments, the Real World Problem Solving Project, and in their field experience, students will be required to demonstrate their ability to assess student learning with performance tasks, rubrics, and to engage their students in self-assessment.
Teachers are able to evaluate themselves.
In their written examination, field experience reflection papers, and class presentations, students will be required to analyze their pedagogical and content knowledge as well as their teaching experiences, focusing particularly on their planning ability and their assessment of student learning. Teachers are connected with other teachers and the community. Students will work in collaborative small groups on class assignments and will be assigned to groups for the Real World Problem Solving Project and their field experience. These field experience groups will teach collaboratively with a cooperating teacher and must meet regularly for planning and self-assessment. In this course, you are to develop competency in these six professional standards.