How the program works

Instructors have a plan for helping teacher candidates to get to their teaching certificates on time--and well enough equipped to thrive and stick in teaching. Many who go into teaching do not thrive and stick, partly because they are not well enough prepared.

Of course, teacher candidates also must take action for the plan to succed. The table below gives a general sense of the plan. Instructors will be adding details to these bones.

The really big deal is that teacher candidates should carry their learning from course to course, building upon what they have learned before, making their knowledge increasingly useful to a teacher.

When	What can be achieved
TE 150	Learning how human beings grow and learn. That is, progressing from commonsensical ideas based on one's own experience to disciplined ideas based on careful study of many persons' experiences.
TE 250	Learning how school works (or doesn't) for different groups of students. That is, coming to understand how teachers participate in distributing many kinds of opportunities in school and in life.
TE 301	Learning to think like a teacher. That is, progressing from a student's idea of teaching toward a teacher's idea of students and learning. It's a major shift in point of view, full of surprise at what was hidden by the difference in roles.
TE 401-2	Learning to know like a teacher. That is, starting to learn subject matters as teachers need to understand them, in order to teach them. To achieve this learning, it might be necessary to reconstruct one's own student experience of a subject matter.
Internship	Learning to act like a teacher, with knowledge and thought. Interns continue their study of teaching, while they are gaining a lot of teaching experience, so that they can apply their studies to their work and emerge as well-started novice teachers, qualified for their certificates.