Teachers prepared by the York College Department of Teacher Education demonstrate caring and ethical professional behavior in order to build teaching and learning environments that draw on the strengths of students
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York College Mission
York College enriches lives and enables students to grow as passionate, engaged learners with the confidence to realize their intellectual and human potential as individuals and global
Teacher Education Vision
The vision of the Department of Teacher Education builds upon the vision and mission of York College. The department's vision is to develop a cadre of professional educators who, having been taught by models of good teaching, are prepared with an array of theories, tools, and skills necessary to create rich learning environments in which urban children and youth can strive for and reach success.
Teacher Education Mission
Teachers prepared by the York College Department of Teacher Education demonstrate caring and ethical professional behavior in order to build teaching and learning environments that draw on the strengths of students’ diverse cultures, languages, exceptionalities, multiple intelligences, and learning styles. By providing our students with learning experiences that develop deep and broad content knowledge and life skills, our teacher candidates become effective practitioners who will:
Empower Learners to Achieve at the Highest Levels
Empower Learners to Achieve at the Highest Levels by being able to
Understand the full range of student needs represented in an urban classroom
Respond to the diversity of learners in the classroom when designing and implementing instruction
Prepare students to be active and effective participants in a political and social democracy
Collaborate with parents and leaders/agencies in the local community
Embody Pedagogy
Embody Pedagogy by being able to
Design and implement curriculum and instruction that represents broad and deep knowledge of pedagogy
Assess students using a diversity of measures, analyze the results, and make instructional decisions to optimize teaching and maximize student performance
Exhibit strong written, verbal, and non-verbal communication skills
Embed technology into the learning experience
Exemplify Professionalism
Exemplify Professionalism by being able to
Act as reflective practitioners with a strong conviction that learning is a lifelong process achievable by all
Collaborate with the professional educational community
Demonstrate a commitment to social justice and equity issues in multicultural, multilingual, urban schools
Enact Knowledge
Enact Knowledge by being able to
Demonstrate a broad and deep knowledge of academic content
Access and build content knowledge
Examine the power and biases of knowledge and knowledge construction
Evaluate emerging content knowledge using scholarly research based evidence
Evaluate content knowledge for relevance to K-12 classroom
The Department of Teacher Education is open Monday - Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.