The University of West Alabama's
Practical Experience Teacher Education Model
Practical experience teachers engage in the following process skills:
- Collaboration to maximize learning potential for their students and to promote their own professional development;
- Application of knowledge in all teaching areas as they progress toward effectively promoting academic achievement among P-12 students;
- Inquiry in response to teaching/learning situations as they make their own discoveries and develop the ability to pose questions and think critically when planning and making other decisions;
- Reflections to analyze teaching/learning situations, develop deeper understandings of these situations, and generate alternatives.
At each level of their program teacher education candidates display the dispositions to:
- collaborate with peers, supervisors, parents, students, and others;
- apply knowledge and pedagogy, including technology, in all teaching areas to promote achievement among P – 12 students;
- demonstrate inquiry by posing questions and thinking critically when planning and making other decisions;
- reflect thoughtfully by examining conditions, attitudes, and educational practices which may enhance or impede student achievement;
- respond to the needs of all learners by respecting the individuality of each student when planning instructional activities to maximize student achievement;
- exhibit professionalism which embodies a strong commitment to on-going professional development, ethical conduct, and student advocacy;
- demonstrate reliability by completing assignments, duties and tasks on time;
- communicate with confidence and clarity;
- demonstrate confidence in the student’s abilities to succeed and routinely communicate high expectations;
- exhibit enthusiasm and compassion; and
- be technologically proficient.