Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Conceptual Framework for Preparing Future Educators.
- Overview
- Developed in 1996 to provide a consistent vision for teaching, guiding curriculum, and instructional choices.
- CONTINUED TO EVOLVED AS THE WORLD OF EDUCATION CHANGES WITH THE ORIGINAL FOUR PILLARS AS THE GUIDING PRINCIPLES
- VISION AND MISSION
- INSTITUTIONAL MISSION
- UC continues to offer promising students of all backgrounds a broad based liberal arts program
enriched with Christian values.
- INSTITUIONAL VISION
- he purpose statement for the University of the Cumberlands is congruent with its mission in
offering quality academic programs with Christian values to candidates of all backgrounds.
- UNIT MISSION AND VISION
- MISSION
- provide strong initial and advanced academic programs to teacher candidates and other school
personnel that instill in them a commitment to a strong work ethic and prepare them for lives
committed to excellence, professional integrity, and leadership that will impact student learning.
- VISION
- The Unit will prepare teacher candidates and other school personnel to be Reflective Constructors
of Quality Learning Experiences through Critical Thinking and subsequently provide them with
academic and practical experiences.
- ORGANIZATION STANDARDS/DISPOTITIONS
- Relationship of effective teaching to dispositions, “professional attitudes, values, and beliefs
demonstrated through both verbal and non-verbal behaviors as educators interact with students,
families, colleagues, and communities” (NCATE, 2008, pp. 89-90.)
- Unit faculty nurture dispositions in candidates through coursework, interactions, interviews, and
evaluations.
- KNOWLEDGE BASES
- REFLECTIVE
- involves many hours of research into best practice strategies, action research, and teachers
modeling desired behavior in the classroom (Chant, Heafner & Bennett, 2004).
- Constructivism
- the learner constructs knowledge based upon personal experiences, beliefs, and pre-existing
mental structures.
- Quality Learning Experiences.
- Only through quality learning experiences does the constructivist theory work.
- CRITICAL THINKING
- Not only must teachers think critically when they teach; they must also help their students to
develop critical thinking skills.
- KNOWLEDGE STRANDS
- STRATEGIC
- TEACHERS MUST BE ABLE TO THINK LONG TERM AND KNOW WHY THEY ARE DOING WHAT THEY ARE DOING
- CONCEPTUAL
- individual’s knowledge of concepts and ideas
- EVALUATIVE
- INDIVIDUAL MUST BE ABLE TO REFLECT
- COMMUNICATIVE
- INDIVIDUAL MUST BE ABLE TO COMMUNICATE