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C&I LECTURE | Faculty
"Beyond Beliefs" - Lani Horn discusses her research into the role of teacher communities in overcoming inequality ...
US NEWS | #7 2008
The College of Education rose to seventh place in this year's U.S. News & World Report rankings of graduate schools ...
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Elementary Teacher Education Program: Alliance of Community Teachers
As a result of its work with Teachers for a New Era, after five years of renewal and redesign efforts, the Elementary Teacher Education Program (ELTEP) is launching its new program this spring. The new program is motivated by an institutional
commitment to fully prepare prospective teachers to work with students from low-income backgrounds, students of color, and culturally linguistically diverse students in high-need schools.
A seminal element of our overall renewal plan is to place prospective elementary teachers in community-based organizations (CBOs)—e.g., boys and girls clubs, neighborhood community centers, and community culture centers—to complement their school-based field experiences. The program is titled the Alliance of Community Teachers (ACT).
ACT’s mission is to deepen prospective teachers’ understanding of the lives and knowledge of children and youth by connecting teachers to high-quality, community-based, educational programs and organizations.
Directed by Dr. Morva McDonald, ACT has 12 community organization partners and 25 teacher education students will begin their CBO placements in April. An interdisciplinary team of doctoral students is working with Dr. McDonald to support teachers, build partnerships with CBO’s and conduct research on the impacts of placing teacher education students in community based organizations.
The first partnership meeting was held March 20, 2008, bringing together CBO staff, principals, TEP faculty and staff, and graduate students.
Spring quarter students will also take part in a weekly seminar that is designed to help students mediate their CBO experience and to make connections to teaching, learning, and community. Our motto is the African saying: “umuntu, ngumuntu, ngabantu” (a person is a person through other persons).
We can already begin to see the small ways in which this innovative program is helping teachers, community based organizations, and teacher educators, learn about one another through community—an idea we look forward to exploring more as time goes on.
For more information or to participate in this ongoing project contact morva@u.washington.edu.
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