What preconference sessions are appropriate for current and future teachers?

Greetings:

 

Only 30 days until the preconference sessions at the National Service-Learning Conference March 20 in Seattle, Washington.

 

Please consider and share the following.

 

 

13th Annual National Service-Learning Conference
Preconferences

What preconference sessions are appropriate for current and future teachers?

 

Are there preconference sessions particularly suited for teacher education?

 

Please consider the following:

There are 13 preconferences scheduled for the 2002 National Service-Learning
Conference in Seattle, Washington Wednesday March 20.  The following
highlight two of particular interest to current and future teachers and teacher education faculty.  Please consider participating in one of these workshops and share this information with colleagues.

“THE COURAGE TO TEACH – PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES OF TEACHER FORMATION”

 This workshop is for people who want to experience teacher formation practices that are part of the Courage to Teach program.  The workshop is offered by the Center for Teacher Formation and will be led by Rick Jackson, the center’s co-director, and Yarrow Durbin, director of Washington State Courage to Teach.  The teacher formation process was created under the guidance of Parker J. Palmer, author of The Courage to Teach—Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher’s Life (Jossey-Bass, 1998).  The formation process invites educators to reclaim their own wholeness and vocational clarity, and makes connections between the renewal of a teacher’s spirit and the revitalization of public education.  Participants will learn about ways of creating trustworthy space for learning and reflection, and to bring greater depth to the work they are already doing in education and related youth service fields

  

SERVICE-LEARNING IN PRE-SERVICE TEACHER EDUCATION: CREATING PARTNERSHIPS TO BUILD A GLOBAL SOCIETY.

 A four-hour preconference facilitated by members of the AACTE National Service-Learning in Teacher Education Partnership: Joe Erickson, Augburg College; Peni Callahan, Providence College; Sue Root, Alma College; and Marty Duckenfield, National Dropout Prevention Center and the National Service-Learning Exchange Regional Center.

Teacher educators across the country are beginning to effectively integrate service-learning into their programs. They are finding that in addition to preparing future teachers to become service-learning practitioners in their own classrooms, there is also evidence that these new teachers are more knowledgeable and experienced concerning the myriad of community issues that they will encounter when they begin teaching. In this interactive session, members of the National Service Learning in Teacher Education Partnership will facilitate participants' discussion and understanding of the following issues: the many ways to integrate service learning into teacher education programs and meet program and beginning teacher standards; successful program models and syllabi for teacher education courses; opportunities for pre-service teachers to gain community experience and work with diverse populations; and the development of strong partnerships, both pre-K through Higher Education and with community organizations.

 Each participant will receive a copy of a service learning in teacher education handbook. The workshop is designed for college and university-based teacher educators and their pre-K-12 and community organization partners.

 

FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TO REGISTER FOR THE 13TH ANNUAL NATIONAL SERVICE-LEARNING CONFERENCE MARCH 20 - 23, 2002 IN SEATTLE, WASHINGTON PLEASE GO TO THE FOLLOWING WEBSITE: WWW.NYLC.ORG OR CALL 1-800-366-6952 OR E-MAIL  NSLC@nylc.org.


Thanks



Terry Pickeral
Jackie Baker-Sennett

David Dopps
Preconference Committee