1. Department of
Education

2. Our Conceptual Framework
Experience
Based
Teacher
Education

3. EBTE Teacher Education Cohort Experiences
What experiences shape the training of teacher candidates while they attend SWOSU?
Exemplary University Classroom Experiences
Best Practice Field Experiences
Teacher Education Cohort Experiences
Education-Related Service Learning Experiences

4. Exemplary University Classroom Experiences
“Faculty members have the responsibility to make [teacher candidates] aware of and to provide teaching strategies for maximizing student learning in the multitude of various classroom environments.”
Policy and Procedures Manual (OSRHE,2012)

5. Exemplary University Classroom Experiences
Examples of Classroom Experiences:
Desired teaching behaviors that are modeled by SWOSU’s professional faculty
Designing lesson and unit plans
Engagement with guest speakers.
Theoretical knowledge via coursework, texts, discussions, and multi-media presentations

6. Best Practice Field Experiences
“The unit and its school partners design, implement, and evaluate field experiences…so that teacher candidates…develop and demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and professional dispositions necessary to help all students learn.”
Professional Standards for the Accreditation of Teacher Preparation Institutions (NCATE, 2008)

7. Best Practice Field Experiences
Examples of Field Experiences:
30 hour observation field experience in Foundations of Education course
Practicums in Methods courses
Diversity field trips in Principles of Teaching and Contemporary Issues courses
12 week Student Teaching experience

8. Teacher Education Cohort Experiences
“Teachers are members of learning communities…They work with other professionals on instructional policy, curriculum development and staff development.”
The Five Core Propositions (NBPTS, 1997)

9. Teacher Education Cohort Experiences
Examples of Cohort Experiences:
Collaborative classroom exercises
Peer presentations and reviews
Classroom discussions
Electronic discussion posts on D2L, blogs, and Wikis

10. Education-Related Service Learning Experiences
Service learning incorporates these four elements:
An identified community need
Students able to meet that need through service
A course objective being met in the performance of the service
A formal reflective activity following the service
Service Learning at SWOSU
(SWOSU, 2012)

11. Education-Related Service Learning Experiences
Examples of Service Learning Experiences:
Special Olympics
Burcham Elementary’s F.R.O.G. Program
Burcham Elementary’s Early Bird Reader Program
Weatherford Middle School’s After School Program
Federated Church’s Positive Pathways Program

12. EBTE The 4 Experiences: University Classroom Experiences
Field Experiences
Cohort Experiences
Service Learning Experiences

13. The goal of EBTE is to produce professionally competent teachers.

14. Professionally competent teachers create quality PK-12 classroom experiences.

15. The product of quality classroom experiences is student learning.

16. Classroom Experiences
e b t e
Exemplary University
Classroom Experiences
Best Practice
Field Experiences
Professional
Competence
Quality PK-12
Classroom Experiences
PK-12 Student
Learning
Teacher Education
Cohort Experiences
Education-Related
Service Learning Experiences