Teacher Education - Langston University

Teacher Education from Langston University is a Campus Bachelor Teaching degree that prepares you for a Education career. Mission: The mission of the Teacher Education Program at Langston University is to provide teacher candidates postsecondary coursework, opportunities, and experiences which will produce academically highly qualified teachers for the nation's schools. The Teacher Education Program will provide exemplary teacher preparation within the framework provided by the Oklahoma Commission for Teacher Preparation and the Oklahoma State Department of Education Standards for General Competencies for Teacher Licensure and Certification. Building on the conceptual framework of ?Teacher as Decision Maker,? faculty seek to prepare teachers who will make informed, ethical classroom decisions that foster their students' learning; strive to prepare teachers with a variety of backgrounds in cultural and ethnic relations and reflective thinking techniques; provide myriads of instructional strategies for diverse learners; and stress vast global knowledge to further their intellectual quest for pedagogical general and specific knowledge. Vision: The vision for the Teacher Education Program is twofold: (1) Increase the number of teacher education candidates and program areas at Langston University through viable and visible avenues. This may be accomplished through the strengthening of the process and policies for admission to the transition levels within teacher education by initiating cadres. Each cadre will systematically progress through the professional education component of the program and the mandated state tests as a unit. (2) Enhance the course offerings and perspectives by employing additional teacher education faculty and increasing professional development and research opportunities. Goals and Objectives: The ideals of the Langston University Teacher Education Program embrace several philosophical designs ranging from pragmatic thought to critical theory. The basic philosophies of the program include the ideals of mentoring, cultural diversity, tolerance, human relations, critical thinking, global perspective, community, freedom to learn, a microcosmic society, acquisition of knowledge, and empowerment of the candidate. These concepts are taken from the foundations for such educational philosophies as pragmatism, progressivism, reconstructionism, existentialism, critical theory, and humanism. The teacher education candidates participate in a variety of experiences that help foster these ideals. The primary purpose of the teacher education program is to provide high quality curricular offerings for prospective teachers to insure that graduates of the program will enter the teaching field keenly aware of the integral relationships that exist among education and other aspects of the community and the world. The following goals are designed to achieve the primary purpose: 1. To enable students to develop an awareness of the functions and relationships of education in a democracy; 2. To enable candidates to become aware of themselves, their strengths, limitations, sensitivities, talents, abilities, and self-worth; 3. To offer guided experiences and a core of courses that constitute essential knowledge for an educator. 4. To enable candidates to develop an understanding of basic principles underlying growth and development of school children and to provide the opportunity for them to demonstrate this understanding through working with students in academic and non-academic settings; 5. To establish a framework in which candidates may work in organizing learning experiences for their pupils that will encourage actual involvement in the process of education; 6. To create an environment in which candidates may be able to relate the principles and theories of psychology and philosophies of education; 7. To guide candidates through pedagogical methods to acquire knowledge related to general education, professional education , and specialized education; 8. To impress upon candidates the importance of professional responsibility, school policy, ethics and law; 9. To enable candidates to develop knowledge, skills and dispositions necessary to become effective classroom teachers who can help all children learn; 10. To require candidates to engage in research, which transfers to effective classroom teaching, i.e. pedagogical strategies, classroom management, discipline strategies, assessment techniques, interpersonal communication skills; 11. To enable candidates to appreciate cultural diversity and exhibit tolerance within a pluralistic society; 12. To facilitate the development of an appreciation of a global society; 13. To enable candidates to use technology and assessment as instructional tools for the classroom; 14. To facilitate the development of portfolios as an assessment measure of their academic professional capabilities in teacher education. View more details on Langston University . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Teaching courses.