Teaching: A Call to Action

Catalog description

This course explores the multiple and critical roles accomplished teachers engage in and fulfill to support student learning and advance the goals of the larger educational community. The focus of the course is on how and why accomplished teachers, in addition to their instructional responsibilities, must act as learners, leaders and collaborators with their colleagues, the community and students’ families to maximize learning and advance the culture of learning and teaching. In addition to examining these critical roles, participants demonstrate, share and reflect upon evidence of their emerging engagement in each. As the last course in the M.Ed. in Teaching and Learning, this course requires that degree candidates connect and synthesize learnings and central themes, which have evolved during their work in the program, to their ongoing efforts to be learners, leaders and collaborators. Through critical analysis and coursework, participants analyze and apply these understandings to their teaching context and develop a path for continuous future growth.