Objectives and Outcomes

Goal 1: Educators are lifelong learners:

Objectives:

1. Students demonstrate a commitment to ongoing analysis and continual improvement of teaching and learning.
2. Students learn and use systematic ways to collect and analyze information about their practice and use that information to improve.
3. Students display a disposition toward continual lifelong learning.
4. Students understand human development, subject matter and instruction, and the nature of student or client to make and evaluate decisions about teaching/counseling/administering.
5. Students seek and consider evidence of learner understanding in making instructional decisions.

Goal 2: Educators Understand Learning and Development:

Objectives:

1. Students know that all students/clients can learn and develop.
2. Students treat all students/clients equitably.
3. Students understand and value differences.
4. Students understand prevailing theories of cognition and intelligence to support intellectual, social, and moral development.
5. Students understand the role and impact of context and culture on development.
6. Students understand how to foster self-esteem, motivation, character, civic responsibility; and respect for individual, cultural, religious or racial differences.
7. Students understand and use technologies to enhance learning and development.
8. Students understand national, state, and local goals of the pertinent disciplines.
9. Students examine their own understandings of content to be taught.

Goal 3: Educators Manage and Monitor Learning Environments:

Objectives:

1. Students understand how to create, enrich, maintain and effectively alter environments to promote individual and group learning and manage learner behavior.
2. Students create a safe learning environment that supports and respects inquiry, exploration, and intellectual risk taking.
3. Students understand individual and group motivation and behavior to create environments that encourage positive social interaction, active engagements in learning, and self-motivation.
4. Students understand and use a variety of generic learning models to promote active learning and understanding.
5. Students take into account district, state, and national curriculum guidelines, as well as learner background, special needs, and interests.
6. Students understand how to organize instruction to meet goals and outcomes.
7. Students are responsive to students and clients ideas, comments and questions.
8. Students set norms for interaction that foster respect and cooperation.

Goal 4: Educators are Members of Multiple Learning Communities:

Objectives:

1. Students recognize that they are contributing members of the education profession.
2. Students recognize that contextual and interactive roles of schools, communities, and the various levels of government.
3. Students foster relationships with colleagues, parents, and agencies to support learning and development.
4. Students are knowledgeable about special community resources that can be used to enhance learning.
5. Students reflect on learning and teaching individually with colleagues.
6. Students act in a professional, responsible and ethical manner.

Karen A. Pletcher
Program Coordinator
814-949-5457
kap149@psu.edu