Learning to teach is an intricate, painstaking, time consuming task. There are no easy shortcuts. Like all acts of performance, one learns to teach by teaching. To facilitate this process you will be assigned to an educational situation where you will have adequate opportunity to teach under the guidance of a master teacher. This person was selected because of his or her professional competence and a desire to work with prospective teachers.


Field experiences should be thought of as a time to study teaching as well as practice teaching. It is a time to put untried ideas to the test in a variety of real situations and to evaluate the results. The factors of: what to teach, how to teach it, and why teach it, are equally important and inseparable in the teaching process. You should reflect on these continually as you carry out your teaching assignments. The teacher education program of study is designed to offer a continuously expanding experience with these factors under the guidance of an experienced teacher. Taking full opportunity of these experiences will guide you as you journey to becoming a “competent, caring teacher” who will make a difference in the lives of children.

Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Week 3 - "Preservice Teacher Engagement"

Today in class we will talk briefly about our schedules and our placements. We will also review the syllabi for EDU 298 and EDU 348 to make sure everybody is clear with expectations.

We will then watch parts of two video clips. The purpose for viewing these clips is to observe the behavior of the preservice teachers during a small group math lesson.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBZZfRnYrds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNQglGFM2XE

Assignment for Tuesday, Sept. 23:

You should all make contact with your teachers this week and get started in your placements. If you are not able to actually start your hours until next week, you will be required to go one week longer in December. If you are able to start this week, you will end the week ending Dec. 12th.




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