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, October 14, 2014

Mid-Term Week - Half Way Through the Semester

We're going to talk briefly today about your placements, the lesson planning process, and check on everybody's progress.

Here is a link to an interesting blog post:

Lesson Plan vs Learning Plan

We will then take a brief tour of the UTTC Teacher Ed website so you are aware of all of the information on that site. We will end on the page that has information about the student teaching application that is coming up for most of you in the spring. I will hand out the student teaching application so you have more information about the essay that is required as part of the application. You have plenty of time to complete it but I want to make sure you are aware of it.


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