Education: Middle Grades Major: Social Studies Track with Learning & Behavior Disorders Major

In addition to its unit mission, vision, and overall theme, the AFTSE requires candidates in all initial and advanced programs to demonstrate acceptable performance on its Program Objectives through the following criteria of continuous assessment: individual course assessments, field and clinical evaluations, disposition assessments, benchmark and/or anchor assessments, and Capstone Project and/or standardized exams (where appropriate). Based on this program assessment data, the candidate who achieves proficiency accomplishes the following Program Objectives:

1. Collaborates with education stakeholders, including parents, teachers, administrators, and the community, to improve student learning and achievement;

2. Reflects on diverse field and clinical experiences, making instructional decisions based on individual learner needs;

3. Demonstrates educator dispositions that value the dignity and unique development of individual learners, and the intellectual, moral, ethical, and professional competencies that characterize effective teaching and leading;

4. Analyzes data to make pedagogical and content-based decisions that inform teaching, learning, leading, and achievement in the 21st Century; and

5. Employs Valli’s five reflective processes which include technical, personalistic, deliberative, in and on action, and critical reflection.