Education
The School of Education at St. galaxy银河娱乐场app提供以下文学学士学位课程和学士学位.Ed. degree program:
Elementary Education (Grades K-8)
- Endorsement areas: math, science, social studies, history, English/language arts, reading, French, German, Spanish, or special education
Secondary Education (Grades 5-12)
- Endorsement areas: art, business (all), English/Language arts, Spanish, math, music, biology, chemistry, history, and reading
- 中学(5-8年级):中学认可(主修你想教的科目)和英语作为第二语言(ESL/ELL)
Ambrose Advantages
- 我们的阅读诊所让您立即处于课程计划,测试和评估的最前沿
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- 100% job placement post graduation
READ OUR EDUCATION PROGRAM SHEET (PDF)
Conceptual Framework
The SAU Educator Preparation Program produces caring, qualified, 通过将文科与职前教师的专业准备相结合,培养合格的教育者.
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The St. galaxy银河娱乐场app教育工作者预备课程将被认可和尊重为关怀发展的区域领导者, qualified and competent educators.
As a program within an independent, diocesan, 天主教高等教育机构,致力于在强大的文科传统下进行专业准备, it is the mission of the SAU Educator Preparation Program to prepare teachers who: 1) are professionally ethical; 2) possess the knowledge and skills in current educational theory and practice needed to serve all learners in diverse current educational environments; and 3) possess the general skills needed to adapt to and create the learning environments of the future.
- 教育工作者准备计划(EPP)认为反思性实践是作为专业教育工作者的职前候选人成长的本质.
- EPP认为,通过文科教育培养候选人对培养高素质教师至关重要.
- EPP认为,一个全面和严格的标准为基础的专业前课程是培养高素质教师的关键.
- EPP认为,所持有的教学倾向和指导决策的道德标准对专业教育工作者的发展至关重要.
- The EPP believes the profession of education is continually advancing, 因此,理解诸如多样性之类的跨领域主题是如何, 社会情感学习和技术整合了我们对教与学的理解.
- EPP认为,临床经验在培养高素质人才方面发挥着至关重要的作用, caring and competent professional educators.
Education Department
Dale Blesz, PhD, Director
Trish Zinger, Administrative Assistant
Melissa Judd, Curriculum Library Administrative Assistant
Jessica Davis, Assessment Administrative Assistant
Gene Bechen, PhD, Professor
Brenda Boleyn, PhD, Professor
Stephanie Erps, MEd, Assessment Coordinator, Lecturer
Mike Kiss, MA, Lecturer
Sherri Moler, MA, Instructor
Angela Rekers-Power, PhD, Associate Professor
Tracy Schuster-Matlock, PhD, Professor
Deanna Stoube, PhD, Professor
Edwin Ubeda, PhD, Assoc. Professor
Tanya Volkova, PhD, Professor
Interstate Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (InTASC)
这些进展中固有的发展方法基于几个假设. In the interest of transparency, those assumptions are outlined here.
学习和教学是复杂的,因为它们涉及到人和关系.
我们从研究中得知,师生关系是成功学习的最关键因素.
In addition to knowing their content, teachers must know their students, how they grow and develop, their preferred ways of learning, their strengths and needs, and their worldview.
Teachers must know how to motivate, engage, 激励他们的学生,并在一个流动和有机的环境中做到这一点,这需要在多个学习者和学习模式之间不断地意识和调整, and often with limited resources and support.
Teaching expertise can be learned, develops over time, and is not linear
Expertise in teaching is knowable and teachable.
它可以被描述、被研究支持、被证明、被体验和被了解. 虽然有一个基本的实践基础,发展基准沿着一个连续体, 并不是一个人的表现的所有部分都以完全相同的速度沿着一个连续体前进.
Rather, a teacher's particular configuration of performances, knowledge, 性格也可能因某些领域表现优异而在其他领域表现较差而有所不同.
某些专业经验和支持可能会激发特定领域和领域的成长, conversely, 环境的变化可能会导致技能水平的暂时倒退,直到掌握新的环境.
Growth can occur through reflection upon experience, feedback, or individual or group professional learning experiences.
In order to develop their expertise, teachers must become knowledgeable about more effective strategies (know), implement them in a real context (do), gather evidence of learner response to the strategy (use data), reflect upon that evidence (reflect), if possible seek feedback from others like a mentor, coach, peer teacher or observer (get feedback), and then make adjustments (adjust), and repeat the cycle.
教师必须被教导如何完成这个循环,并且应该在他们最初的准备中留下技巧,以便单独或与他人一起反思他们的实践, and evaluate their practices against a framework of developmental growth.
当教师无法反映或认识到应该解决的教学行为时,就需要进行干预.
Development depends on context, particularly levels of support.
教师的知识和技能的有效性取决于环境,这些知识和技能可能在一个环境中很好地为他们服务,但在另一个环境中就不那么好了.
For instance, 一个改变年级的老师可能会发现他/她在某些技能上处于初级水平,现在需要教给更年轻的学生.
搬到城市环境的农村教师可能需要不同的策略来吸引具有不同优势和需求或具有不同生活经历的学生.
在支持学生的成长和发展时,教师与环境之间存在着一种相互的、迭代的关系.
It's about the teaching practice and not about the individual teacher.
这些课程的重点是教学实践以及如何改进实践.
关键问题总是这些:练习对学习者的影响是什么? Are the learners engaged? Are they learning, growing, and improving?
Peyton Reese
B.A. in Elementary Education,Class of 2023
佩顿计划成为一名指导、支持和鼓励galaxy银河娱乐场app的老师. It's no wonder that she appreciates the way St. galaxy银河娱乐场app的教师教育计划:拥有强大的学术和改变人生的经历, 我们挑战学生发挥他们最大的潜力-他们茁壮成长.
Contact
Dale Blesz, PhD, Director
School of Education
Ambrose Hall 205
518 W. Locust St.
Davenport, IA 52803
563-333-5839
BleszDaleP@kigourmand.net