Outcomes
In order to successfully complete this course, the student will:
1. Appraise your motives for becoming a teacher.
2. Determine the aims of a school by analyzing formal statements of purpose, relying on your own. experiences and comparing these schools with given models of effective schools.
3. Examine a school environment (its social system) and the nature of the students.
4. Give examples of why teachers must be aware of the many dimensions of student diversity.
5. Identify the social problems that affect today’s students.
6. Analyze what makes a teacher effective.
7. Demonstrate what teachers should know about technology and its impact on schools.
8. Explain how school curriculum has evolved over time.
9. Describe how schools are governed, influenced, and financed.
10.Analyze the philosophical foundations of American.
11. Compare the forces that have affected and continue to affect the development of American education.
12.Identify the ethical and legal issues facing teachers.
13.Propose ways education should be reformed.
14.Examine the job options in education.