Welcome to Education

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Welcome to Education

• Dr. Susan Brandt
• Education 101

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Introduction

• As the Baby Boomer teachers are retiring the
  field is now, more than ever, open for new
  teachers. This class will help you decide if the
  teaching field is right for you.

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Topics of Discussion

• Reasons people are drawn to teaching
• Challenges of teaching
• What society expects of teachers
• How teachers view their work

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• People are called to education because they love
  children and youth, or because they love being
  with them, watching them open up and grow and
  become bore able, more competent, and more
  powerful in the world. They may love what happens
  to them when they are with children, the way they
  become their best selves. People teach as an act
  of construction and reconstruction and as a gift
  of oneself to others

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Topic One- Why Do You Want to Teach?

• Desire to work with young children
• Love of teaching
• Influence of Teachers
• Desire to serve
• Benefits of teaching

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Topic Two-What Are the Challenges of Teaching

• Classroom Management and Increasing School
  violence
• Social Problems that impact schools
• Need for family and community support
• Long working hours and Job stress
• Gaining professional empowerment

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Topic Three-What is teaching really like

• The unpredictability of outcomes
• The difficulty of assessing students learning
• The need for Teacher-Student partnership
• The impact of teacher attitudes
• The drama and immediacy of teaching
• The uniqueness of the teaching experience

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• A sample of voices from teachers
• I am at a decision-making point. I truly enjoy
  teaching, but I feel buffeted by the public
  assault on teachers the strain of dealing with
  especially needy students the day-in, day-out
  structure of teaching and my own personal
  development issues. At times I feel drained,
  uninspired, and just plain tired.

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• Every memo that comes through my mailbox tells me
  to prep for the test or remind students how
  important their scores are. Important for whom?
  Important for the institution, maybe. I came to
  teach students, but that is feeling harder and
  harder to do.

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• It is lonely. Every day, you work by yourself
  and its just you and your students. Theres
  nobody there to witness your work.
• The feelings of isolation , of toiling behind
  closed doors can leave teachers feeling insecure
  and unsure about their impact. When teachers
  work is finished they have nothing tangible to
  show off as a fruit of their labor.

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• A teachers job could be compared to a crazy
  quilt of roles and tasks. The teacher bustles
  about trying to create those high-octane
  connections between students, subject matter, and
  teacher

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Real Life-What does society expect of teachers

• The public trust
• Teacher Competency and Effectiveness
• Teacher accountability

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Public Trust

• Level of trust public extends to teachers as
  professional varies greatly
• Trust increases or decreases in response to
  social change
• 1970s teachers were portrayed as incompetent and
  unintelligent
• 1980s reports battered the image of teachers A
  Nation at Risk declared U.S education was
  inadequate
• 1990s deliberate effort to restore dignity to
  the profession of teaching

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Teacher Competency

• Teachers are expected to be proficient in the use
  of instructional strategies, curriculum
  materials, advanced technologies, and classroom
  management techniques
• Expected to have a thorough understanding of the
  developmental levels of their students and a
  solid grasp of the content they teach
• Have the responsibility to help all learners
  succeed
• Teachers expectations of students directly
  affects student achievement

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How Good Teachers View Their Work

• A way of being
• A creative endeavor
• A live performance
• A form of empowerment
• An opportunity to serve
• As keepers of the dream

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Discussion Question

• Think of a teacher who influenced you in some
  way. What characteristics made this person a good
  teacher?

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Terms

• Microteaching- calls for students to teach
  brief,single-concept lessons to a small group of
  students while concurrently practicing a specific
  teaching skill such as positive reinforcement
• Outcome-based teacher education-an approach to
  teacher education emphasizing outcomes (what
  teachers should be able to do, think, and feel)
  rather than the courses they should take.
• Preactive Teaching- the stage of teaching when
  the teacher prepares to teach or reflects on
  previous teaching experiences in contrast with
  interactive teaching

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Terms

• Interactive Teaching-teaching characterized by
  face-to-face interactions between teachers and
  students
• Reflection-the process of thinking carefully and
  deliberately about the outcomes of ones teaching
• Holmes Group- a group of 96 colleges of education
  that prepared a report calling for all teachers
  to have a bachelors degree in an academic field
  and a masters degree in education

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Terms

• Induction program- programs for the support of
  beginning teachers, usually between their first
  year of teaching
• Field experiences- opportunities for
  teachers-in-training to experience first hand the
  world of the teacher, by observing, tutoring and
  instructing small groups
• INTASC-an organization of states established in
  1987 to develop performance based standards for
  which beginning teachers should know and be able
  to do

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Terms

• NBPTS-aboard that began issuing professional
  certificates in 1994 to teachers who possess
  extensive professional knowledge and the ability
  to perform at a high level
• Tenure-an employment policy in which teachers,
  after serving a probationary period, retain their
  positions indefinitely

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Terms

• Burnout-an acute level of stress resulting in job
  dissatisfaction and an inability to cope
  effectively
• Teach for America-a program that enables recent
  college graduates without a teaching certificate
  to teach in districts with critical shortages of
  teachers and after taking professional
  development courses and supervision by state and
  local authorities, earn a teaching certificate

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Terms

• Teaching-learning process-the process is based on
  teacher student partnerships
• Student diversity- differences among students in
  regard to gender,race, ethnicity,culture and
  socioeconomic status
• Pedagogical content knowledge-a joint product of
  wisdom about teaching learning, students and
  content

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Terms

• Holmes Schools- are linked to colleges or
  universities and provide opportunity for the
  development of new teaching methods and
  collaboration on research projects

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Assignments for next class

• Go to http//www.abinteractive.com/login to view
  material related to chapter 1
• Read chapter 2-