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Subject Guides such as this one were designed to support your class assignments and learning outcomes. Feel free to explore the other Subject Guides and other LibGuides to learn more about different topics you are studying and that interest you.
- Lori Warren, Instructional Services Librarian
Here are some of the skills you may learn in various education courses and apply to other future courses:
Learning Outcomes- Students will demonstrate the ability to:
- Examine the educator’s responsibilities within the teaching profession.
- Examine the goals educators have and reflect on how these goals will influence one’s teaching behavior.
- Provide the student with an opportunity to develop and reflect on his/her personal philosophy of education.
- Assist the student in defining the role he/she can play as an educator in shaping educational policy.
- Examine the historical development of American education.
- Examine public education’s function within a democratic society.
- Examine the various influences that have shaped the public school curriculum.
- Provide an opportunity to explore current issues and controversies in American education.
- Examine the rights and responsibilities of teachers, students, and parents in public schools and the role the judicial systems play in defining those rights and responsibilities.
- Examine the structure and functions of the state school system, the local school system, and the role of the federal government in education.
- Assist the student in deciding whether he/she truly wants to be a teacher.
- Examine how schooling influences, and is influenced by, equity issues (social, gender, cultural, economic, racial, and ethnic differences).