Program

The Single Subject Credential Program strives to provide opportunities for candidates to address and attain the following Student Learning Outcomes:

• Demonstrate a high level of professional responsibility for and involvement in their own professional development.
• Explain a personal philosophy of teaching and learning that is grounded in theory and standards of professional practice.
• Articulate conceptual frameworks relating to culture, power, and equity and how these influence teaching and learning.
• Discuss legal issues and ethical choices that influence education.
• Discuss interrelationships among family, community, student learning, and success in school.
• Discuss and critique various theories and practices of language acquisition and literacy development (e.g. reading, writing, speaking, listening) across content areas.
• Design standards-based instructional objectives and activities that are developmentally appropriate, sequential and integrated, and actively engage all students.
• Design, critique, and utilize a variety of formal and informal standards-based assessments that inform teaching and provide feedback on student learning.
• Demonstrate teaching methodologies that reflect an effective use of standards, objectives, and strategies including technology for working with a diverse student population.
• Critically reflect upon the relationship between their own teaching and student learning.