EDUC 100 - Introduction to Teaching

3 Credit: (3 lecture, 0 lab, 0 clinical) 3 Contact Hours: [Reading Level 3  and Writing Level 3 ]

1. Differentiate between professional knowledge, skills, and dispositions.
2. Examine the three-part definition of professional disposition as it is used in the field of education.
3. Examine the range of requisite professional knowledge, skills, and dispositions of an effective educator.
4. Reflect upon the precepts of professionalism in the context of teaching.
5. Self-assess the student’s current behaviors against standards of professionalism.
6. Recall the dispositions displayed by previous teachers who positively influenced the learner and speculate as to the underlying values, attitudes, and beliefs of those teachers.
7. Evaluate his or her professional behaviors, skills, and dispositions to discern his or her readiness to enter the teacher education program and his or her “fit” within the teaching profession.

Goal 2:  The student will describe the requirements necessary to be a teacher.

1. Locate state-mandated teacher certification requirements.
2. Develop familiarity with his or her teacher preparation program’s conceptual framework and program-related resources.
3. Develop familiarity with the student’s School or College of Education’s specific expectations for teacher education candidates.
4. Ascertain program completion requirements at his or her teacher preparation institution.
5. Compose a program completion plan with his or her teacher preparation institution.
6. Summarize continuing education requirements to maintain certification.

Goal 3:  The student will demonstrate the skills of collaboration necessary to be an effective teacher.

1. Practice and refine oral communication skills on education-related topics.
2. Practice and refine effective nonverbal communication.
3. Demonstrate an understanding of the term teacher presence in context of the field of education.
4. Develop self-awareness of physical mannerisms while standing and seated.
5. Explain the difference between listening and hearing.
6. Develop an understating of the terms active listening, empathy, and personal space as they are used in the field of education.
7. Develop self-awareness of nonverbal and verbal behaviors while working with others.
8. Practice and refine active listening skills.
9. Demonstrate empathy.
10. Demonstrate appropriate use of personal space.
11. Develop an understanding of the term collaboration as it is used in the field of education.
12. Develop self-awareness of personal behaviors while in collaborative group settings.
13. Practice and refine collaboration skills in an educational context such as active listening, rapport-building, perceptiveness, sensitivity, and posture.

Goal 4:  The student will demonstrate reading and writing skills necessary to be an effective teacher.

1. Practice and refine writing skills on education-related topics.
2. Compose an educator’s resume.
3. Practice and refine oral reading fluency.
4. Reflect upon self-assessment and peer assessment of practice performances.

Goal 5:  The student will demonstrate critical thinking ability.

1. Refine critical thinking skills by focusing upon clarity, organization, logic, and focus.
2. Employ critical thinking skills when solving problems deemed ethical or moral dilemmas.
3. Identify and explain the term logical fallacy.
4. Identify, explain, and locate example of logical fallacies.
5. Identify and analyze arguments in blogs, editorials, news articles, or other forms of public discourse.

Goal 6:  The student will demonstrate an awareness of the teacher’s role as a leader in                        

1. the field of education.
2. Develop an understanding of the terms adaptive capacity, crucible, and consensus as used in the field of education.
3. Identify and explain the four central competencies of effective leadership.
4. Reflect upon previous experiences that relate to the four central competencies of effective leadership.
5. Self-assess proficiency in the four central competencies of effective leadership.
6. Reflect upon the effect of their professional decisions and actions on students and others in the learning community.
7. Practice and refine leadership skills when discussing ethical dilemmas.

Goal 7:  The student will demonstrate an awareness of diversity in an educational context.

Goal 8:  The student will articulate an awareness of critical issues facing teachers in American education.

1. Describe a teacher’s code of ethics.
2. Explain teachers’ legal rights.
3. Explain students’ legal rights.
4. Explain parents’ legal rights.
5. Summarize teachers’ legal responsibilities.
6. Examine issues in the legal rights of schools.