This course serves as an introduction to the purposes of schooling in the United States. Topics covered include issues in schooling/society; teachers' dispositions, roles, responsibilities; the social, cultural, and historical origins of schooling; theory and philosophy of teaching and learning; and the diverse ways that humans know, be, do, learn, and interact. This class may include students from multiple sections.
Must be seeking a Bachelor of Applied Science in Teacher Education degree to enroll. If interested, visit pencol.edu/bas
Prerequisites
Teacher Education BAS Program Admittance
Course Outcomes
- Describe the development of the American public education system and how historical factors shaped the current system in writing, orally, and through visual representations.
- Describe and demonstrate understanding of several current issues involved in public education and how they are connected.
- Describe educational philosophies and articulate your own educational philosophy.
- Demonstrate understanding of and engagement with dispositions appropriate to public education and citizenship orally, in writing, and through engagement/participation in course with instructor, materials, and other students (as connected to the Washington State Code of Ethics, Core Teacher Standards, and other articulations).
- Identify and communicate varying ways to manage institutional and systemic forces so that teaching accords with high standards of disciplinary content, social justice, equity, and educational/social ideals.
- Comprehend and communicate how differences in race, culture, gender, ability, income, background, and other identifiers affect educational and social opportunity.
- Articulate the multiple, and sometimes conflicting, purposes of schooling in a democratic society.
- Define the role of the educator in the program setting and describe the nature of relationships among children, parents, educators and educational programs.
- Demonstrate understanding of self, role(s) and place within education, schooling and society as a citizen, parent, professional and/or educator in writing and orally.