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Critical Accountability Factor V: Parent/Community Involvement Quality Indicator 5: The institution prepares teacher candidates to interact with and involve parents and community representatives to support teaching and learning.
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Critical Accountability Factor V: Critical Accountability Factor I: Critical Accountability Factor II: Critical Accountability Factor III: Critical Accountability Factor IV: Critical Accountability Factor V: Critical Accountability Factor VI: Critical Accountability Factor VII:
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Is there a clearly articulated plan for teaching the candidates how to effectively interact with and involve parents and community representatives to support student learning?
The importance of involving parents and the community to support student learning is emphasized throughout the pedagogy professional sequence (See
Form XXX):- EDUC 206 Educational Technology in the Secondary Classroom
Students prepare a digital portfolio and class page, which incorporates information for parents. See student portfolios. - EDUC 251 Lifespan Human Growth and Development
Students discuss the interrelationships and interdependence of the classroom experience i.e., young students, peers, siblings, families, neighbors, and communities along with the need to involve people from these domains in classroom and curriculum.
Students will be able to explain strategies that have been suggested to promote and evaluate cooperation between school personnel, families and communities.
Students will analyze the American family structure and its relationship to learning.
Student teachers are to attend and participate in parent/teacher conferences during their placement assignment.
Students discuss ELSMT Standard #6: Commitment and willingness to participate in learning communities and ways in which to incorporate those learning communities into the curriculum. The Michigan Curriculum Framework Teaching & Learning Standard: Connections to the World Beyond the Classroom is also stressed so that student teachers are able to demonstrate that schoolwork and jobs are connected.
B. How and when do candidates interct with parents in a clinical/school setting? How is the candidate's learning in parent/community involvement assessed?
- Student teachers are required to attend and participate in parent/teacher conferences while performing in their placement assignment (see Student Teaching Guide, Objectives and Responsibilities of Student Teachers, pg. 6) and are assessed for their performance of this activity as a part of the overall final evaluation.
- In addition to a student's traditional classroom field experience requirement, student's may earn a Community Learning Center (CLC) Certificate. Big Rapids Public Schools Community Learning Centers program offers students an After-School program for two hours every afternoon during the school year and an intensive summer program. These programs provide learning opportunities, physical activities, and healthy lifestyles education.
- Students are able to assess themselves and cooperating teachers are able to assess our teacher candidates on their performance of ELSMT Standard #6: Commitment and willingness to participate in learning communities using our Standards for Michigan Teachers Survey