An important part of your becoming a secondary school teacher is to join the specialized group of professional educators in your specific area of expertise. While many of the values, goals, and methods of classroom instruction are common to all subject areas, within each discipline we find a unique culture of teaching practice. Each subject area uses its own distinct culture and language to carry out teaching and learning in the classroom. One of the purposes of this course is to induct you into the culture of teaching in your subject area.
Each high school subject area, if powerfully taught, has the capacity to transform and empower students. Powerful teaching acknowledges that we learn both through the company we keep, and through a personal relationship with knowledge and truth. Each subject area can be thought of as a club, with its own knowledge base and culture. Learning is the process of entering into deeper and deeper levels of club membership. This course will show you how to be a club pro, effectively teaching so as to invite and mentor students into a lifetime membership in the Technology Education club.
In the process we want to become reflective practitioners, those who believe and practice the continual process of self-evaluation of who we are as teachers, leading us inevitably to continual reformation of the educational practices we engage in with our students. We will take what you have already developed and formed as your personal learning theory, combine it with your knowledge of best practices, and specifically focus upon your application of these skills to the teaching of courses involving technology education.
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