Contemporary+Issues+in+Education


 * GPS **** Focus Standards: **
 * EDU-CIE-1. Students will demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the academic subject matter required for proficiency within their area.**


 * EDU-CIE-3. Students will understand and apply disciplinary knowledge from the humanities and social sciences to interpret the meanings of education and schooling in diverse and contemporary contexts.**
 * a**. Develop habits of using this knowledge base in evaluating and formulating educational practice.
 * b.** Examine and explain the practice, leadership, and governance of education in different societies in light of its origins, major influences, and consequences.
 * c.**Utilize critical understanding of education thought and practice and decisions and events, including current events which have shaped them.


 * EDU-CIE-4. Students will recognize the inevitable presence of societal and cultural influences in contemporary educational thought and practice.**
 * a.** Develop habits of using this knowledge base in evaluating and formulating educational practice.
 * b.** Examine and explain the practice, leadership, and governance of education in different societies in light of its origins, major influences, and consequences.
 * c.**Utilize critical understanding of education thought and practice and decisions and events, including current events which have shaped them.


 * EDU-CIE-5. Students will understand and apply critical perspectives on education and schooling.**
 * a.** Utilize theories and critiques of the overarching purposes of schooling as well as considerations of the intent, meaning, and contemporary.
 * b.** Use critical judgment to question contemporary educational assumptions and arrangements and to identify contradictions and inconsistencies among current social and educational values, policies, and practices.


 * EDU-CIE -6. Students will understand how moral principles related to demographic institution can inform and direct schooling practices, leadership, and governance.**
 * a.** Participate effectively in individual and organizational efforts that maintain and enhance U.S. schools as institutions in a democratic society.
 * b.** Evaluate the moral, social, and political dimensions of contemporary classrooms, teaching, and schools as they relate to life in a democratic society.


 * EDU-CIE-7. Students will understand the full significance of diversity in a democratic society and how that society influences instruction, school leadership and governance.**
 * a.** Understand how social and cultural differences originating outside of the classroom and school affect student learning.
 * b.** Acquire an understanding of education and connect sensitivity with democratic values and responsibilities. Accept the idea that there is human commonality within diversity.
 * c.** Adapt instruction to incorporate recognition and acceptance of social and cultural differences to the extent that they do not interfere with basic democratic principles. Specify how issues such as justice, social inequality, concentrations of power, class differences, race and ethnic relations, or family and community organization affect teaching and schooling.


 * EDU-CIE-11. Students will specify how issues such as justice, social inequality, concentrations of power, class differences, race and ethnic relations and family and community organization affect teaching and schooling.**
 * a.** Know the demographics of their community.
 * b.** Plan and implement community projects that impact issues of race, socioeconomic status, cultural differences, or special needs.
 * c.** Evaluate the contextual factors of the classroom in which they do their internship.