ED 570 - The Reflective Educator

Interactivity: None

Final Assessment: Final Paper

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

• Through the art of reflection, examine, assess, and appreciate your own personal life journey and critically reflect upon the responsibilities, challenges, and personal rewards of your vocation as a teacher.
• Identify and develop those vocational ideals that have the potential to nurture contemporary schools and society.
• Examine some of the ethical, communal, and spiritual dimensions of the teaching/learning act and formulate a personal ethics of teaching.
• Recognize teaching as a moral act; identify the moral dimensions of the school environment (including both the implicit and explicit curriculums); and assess the moral climate of your own educational setting.
• Identify the impact of culture, societal values, and moral ideas upon contemporary education.
• Examine and critique recent school reform proposals, emphasizing the quest for individual and spiritual fulfillment and an authentic experience of community.
• Articulate a professional point of view that is guided by reason rather than rhetoric, a personally appropriated value position, and vigilant self-reflection; act with the integrity that comes from knowing what one is doing and why one is doing it; and define who the self is that teaches.