• Preparation programs directly connect with the learning of P-12 students and to the state/national accountability standards that have evolved over the past 25 years and especially since the adoption of the Kentucky Common Core Academic Standards.
• The faculty reviewed and accepted the Kentucky Teacher Code of Ethics and Kentucky Teacher Character and Fitness Form for Educators. This code serves to guide the program in developing and monitoring candidates’ professional dispositions.

The unit’s conceptual framework identifies the variables and relationships that describe schools as social systems. One objective of the teacher education program is to ensure that our candidates understand these relationships and can use this knowledge to make wise decisions regarding areas such as reform of school curricula and selection and retention of highly qualified personnel.

SEHDCS Learning Outcomes:

Learning Outcome 1 – Student candidates possess content knowledge to provide instruction and guidance to students.

Learning Outcome 2 – Student candidates possess content knowledge in assessment, professional development, leadership, community, and analysis of instructional scenarios to provide instruction and guidance to students.

Learning Outcome 3 – Student candidates demonstrate effective pedagogy in their prospective area of learning to enhance acquisition of content, through their understanding of methods implemented within the classroom to create learning opportunities that support the development of all students.

Learning Outcome 4 – Student candidates will demonstrate the following eight dispositions:

1. Committed to the pursuit of knowledge, 2) committed to diversity as a cardinal principle of equitable education, 3) demonstrate respect and enthusiasm for the practice and profession of teaching, 4) respect the accepted legal and ethical norms and values of education, 5) actively collaborate with colleagues, parents, and students, 6) exercise personal management behaviors,
7. practice reflective thinking for continuous professional and personal improvement, and 8) demonstrate effective communication skills to promote personal and educational learning outcomes for consistency, and growth purposes. Learning Outcome 5– Student candidates demonstrate teaching effectiveness based on Kentucky’s Framework for Teaching (KFfT), and the five domains: 1) planning and preparation, 2) classroom environment, 3) instruction, 4) professional responsibilities, 5) Cultural Responsiveness and 6) technology.

Learning Outcome 5– Student candidates demonstrate teaching effectiveness based on Kentucky’s Framework for Teaching (KFfT), and the five domains: 1) planning and preparation, 2) classroom environment, 3) instruction, 4) professional responsibilities, 5) Cultural Responsiveness and 6) technology.