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Design of Undergraduate Teacher Education Programs
Goals & Objectives
Greensboro College affords candidates a liberal arts education. Stimulated by the spirit of inquiry, candidates engage in the learning process as a preparation for life in the larger community. Undergraduate instruction is designed to help prospective teachers become more literate, articulate, independent, and professionally competent. In order to do this, candidates explore the achievements of liberal arts, fine arts, and the sciences. The Teacher Education Program models active learning, critical reflection, and disciplined inquiry.
It is the objective of the Greensboro College Teacher Education Program to develop candidates who:
- Are reflective practitioners, who can evaluate the effects of their choices and actions and who actively seek opportunities to grow professionally.
- Understand the social, historical and philosophical foundations of education; who recognize the moral and social dimensions of classroom practice; who know school aw, educational policy and professional ethics.
- Understand the central concepts, tools of inquiry, technology, and structure of their disipline.
- Understand learning and development and who can provide learning opportunities that support intellectual, moral, social, and personal development.
- Understand how learners differ in approaches to learning, in degrees of handicapping conditions, in experience, in culture, inethnicity, and social background.
- Can assess, plan, implement, and evaluate instruction based on subject matter, students, community, and curriculum goals.
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