Department of Teacher Education

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 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 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 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