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Education

Modeling Best Professional Practices in Teaching

Faculty have a thorough understanding of the content they teach. Academic teaching assignments by professional education faculty reflect the Unit’s Visionary Leader conceptual framework, current research, advanced theories, and current methodological developments in their respective fields of instruction. Faculty value candidates’ learning and appropriately assess candidate performance. Faculty instruction encourages candidates’ reflective development, skills in higher order thinking, value and respect for diverse populations, and the formation of appropriate professional dispositions.

Faculty utilize a variety of instructional strategies and methodologies, including the use of technology, that reflect an understanding of different learning styles, thus creating multiple opportunities for student learning. Faculty value the diverse nature of society and reflect this through the integration of multicultural dimensions throughout their instructional and professional assignments. Faculty assess their own effectiveness as teachers, including the effect and influence they have on candidates’ learning and assessment. Table 5.12 identifies those technologies that CSC faculty utilize in their instructional and professional roles.

Chadron State College Education faculty have an in-depth understanding of their respective content area fields, and integrate what is known about current research and best practice into their own instructional activities. Faculty demonstrates sensitivity to the Unit’s conceptual framework and integration of its components into the teaching-learning classroom environment. The Unit Conceptual Framework: "Developing Visionary Leaders for Lifelong Learning" is evident in Unit course syllabi. A complete file of course syllabi may be found in the Documents Center.