1. Building on a Tradition of Excellence
Chapter 2

2. Continuity and Change Significant Ideas from Chapter 1?
Website information
Why is the past important?

3. A Tradition of Excellence
At ESU
In Early Childhood Field

4. ESU Excellence in Teacher Education
NCATE Accreditation
PDE Accreditation
Conceptual Framework
Teacher Education Dispositions
Award winning Initatives

5. ESU Excellence in Teacher Education
Conceptual Framework
Our mission is to develop beginning educators who make reflective and deliberate decisions that support and extend the learning of all students.

6. ESU Excellence in Teacher Education
Conceptual Framework
Beginning Educator Outcomes
Content
Learner and the Learning Environment
Teaching and Learning Process
Professionalism

7. Work Groups Create a seminar approach for work in class.
Develop collaborative ideas and dispositions.
Attached to major influences in ECE.

8. Tradition of Excellence in ECE Field

10. Changing Views of Childhood
Miniature Adults
Need of Redemption
Blank Slates
Innocents
Economic Value
Competent Child
Citizen with Rights
Product of your own History

11. A continuum of influences & ideas
Education is…
Learning is…
Child is…

12. Group Work Who? When? Where? What? Why? Influence… Groups Bandura
View of the Child
View of Learning
View of Teaching
Why? Influence…
Groups
Bandura
Dewey
Erickson
Montessori
Piaget
Vygotsky

13. Next Steps Group Work – 4 ppt slides sent to me by Sunday pm
Insert Four Artifacts into Portfolio
Select the BEO it addresses (B,C, D only)
Choices & BEOs
Candidate’s Statement (next slide) – due Thursday

14. Candidate’s Statement
The candidate will prepare a two (2) page, well written and grammatically correct, word processed essay that includes the following components:
A statement of the candidate's reasons for wanting to be part of the teaching profession.
A description of the candidate's  "teacher identity", highlighting relevant experiences and personal strengths.
A description of the candidate’s beliefs about teaching and learning and the theories that support those beliefs.
A discussion of how the candidate will be an intentional teacher of diverse students, incorporating ways to meet the needs of all learners.
A description of the candidate's goals for continued professional development to be completed prior to student teaching.