Candidate Induction Ceremony

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Candidate Induction Ceremony

• November 28, 2006

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Elon University Teacher Education Conceptual
Framework
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Mission of Elon University Teacher Education

• To prepare quality teachers who are
  knowledgeable, responsible, and thoughtful
  professionals
• Our Conceptual Framework reflects an intention to
  create a learning environment in which teacher
  candidates inquire, collaborate, and construct
  the knowledge, skills, and dispositions for
  professional practice

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Knowledge

• Learning theory
• Disciplinary content
• Relevant pedagogy
• Developmental characteristics and diverse needs
  of students and of varying family and community
  cultures
• Skills and dispositions to create positive
  learning environments and appropriate, varied,
  and multiple instructional strategies and
  assessment procedures
• Act on the belief that all students can learn

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Inquiry

• Value and use questioning intentionally to
  stimulate student inquiry and motivate learning
• Use a variety of human and technological
  resources to acquire and analyze information and
  draw conclusions
• Be enthusiastic self-learners who engage in
  purposeful inquiry within professional community
• Continually reflect upon personal beliefs and the
  implications for instructional practice

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Professionalism

• View yourselves as integral to the professional
  community that shares and builds knowledge about
  quality practice
• Interact with colleagues, students, families, and
  others in community in an ethical and respectful
  manner
• Promote relationship and acceptance of diversity
• Remain current and informed in professional field

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Learner Outcomes (12)

• Knowledge (5)
• Content and Pedagogy
• Inquiry (3)
• Professionalism (4)
• Dispositions

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Making the Transitionfrom Student to
Professional

• About Transitioning
• Some Tangible Results
• - behaviors
• - manner of dress
• - interactions
• - changed perspectives
• - a new persona
• - member of a new community

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Dispositions

• Our Values and Beliefs as Educators
• Starting and Ending Points
• Influences in the middle
• The Big CRESCENDO!
• Specific Dispositions for Elon Teacher Candidates
• Collection, Analysis, and Use of Data
• Assessment Points

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Academic Integrity

• central to our educational mission and
  foundational for learning and the exchange of
  ideas

Committee on Academic Integrity (February 2005).
First guiding principle.
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Angels and Devils

• Increased use of collaboration in teaching and
  learning
• Pervasive use of computer as a research tool

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The Three Principles of Academic Honesty

• When you say you did the work yourself, you did
  it.
• When you use someone elses work (or idea), you
  cite it.
• When you present research findings, you present
  them truthfully.

Lipson, C. (2004). Doing honest work in college.
Chicago and London The University of Chicago
Press, p 3.
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A Community of Learners
If we are to have in our classrooms and you are
to build in your future classrooms a true
community of learners, we must keep in mind that
such a community is built upon the pillars of
honesty, respect, and responsibility and held
together with strong bonds of trust. These are
the qualities fostered by academic integrity.
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What does it mean to commit?

• To give in charge or trust
• To deliver for safekeeping
• To make a pledge or promise
• The delivery of a person or thing into the charge
  or keeping of another

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• A commitment to education means a pledge or
  promise to developing not only your own
  knowledge, skill, mind, and character but also
  the knowledge, skill, mind, and character of the
  children and young people who are in your charge.

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• Ive come to a frightening conclusion that I am
  the decisive element in the classroom. Its my
  personal approach that creates the climate. Its
  my daily mood that makes the weather. As a
  teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a
  childs life miserable or joyous. I can be a
  tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration.
  I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all
  situations, it is my response that decides
  whether a crisis will be escalated or
  de-escalated and a child humanized or
  de-humanized.
• Haim Ginott

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CONGRATULATIONS!!!!NEW ELONTEACHER
CANDIDATES