In an effort to better serve our student members and best prepare them for a career in education, the Future Educators Association has developed national curriculum standards for future educators. By implementing national curriculum standards for future educators, we can ensure that students across the country and around the world are receiving similar high-quality instruction and learning the skills that are necessary to be a quality educator. These standards are based upon Experiencing Education, 10th Edition (CERRA, 2010) and the 2003 Arizona Competency and Indicator List for Education Professions.
Expectations of Member Chapters’ Incorporation of National Curriculum Standards for Future Educators
- Member chapters are expected to incorporate 50 percent of the national curriculum standards within their first year of membership.
- Member chapters are expected to incorporate 80 percent of the national curriculum standards within their second year of membership.
- By the end of the third year of membership with FEA, the chapter should have fully integrated all national curriculum standards.
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Future Educators Association® National Curriculum Standards for Future Educators
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EXPERIENCING LEARNING
Awareness and Reflection
- Students will analyze their strengths and areas for improvement as learners.
- Students will evaluate themselves as diverse individuals, learners, and community members.
- Students will examine and appreciate others’ diversity.
- Students will analyze the role of self-esteem in learning and its contributing factors.
Styles and Needs
- Students will evaluate different learning styles.
- Students will identify the special needs and exceptionalities of learners and determine how these needs affect the learning process.
- Students will examine major physical, social, and personal challenges that can impede successful learning.
Growth and Development
- Students will differentiate among the physical stages of learners.
- Students will examine the cognitive stages of learners.
- Students will distinguish between the moral stages of learners.
- Students will analyze the steps in the psychosocial stages of learners.
- Students will apply an understanding or knowledge of the developmental changes of learners.
EXPERIENCING THE PROFESSION
History and Trends
- Students will trace the history of education in their respective states and the U.S. as a whole.
- Students will evaluate the educational philosophies that have influenced the issues in education today.
- Students will predict future educational movements based on past and current events.
Structure and Governance
- Students will compare the various types of schooling.
- Students will examine the governance structure of their local, state, and national educational systems.
Certification and Employment
- Students will explore careers in education.
- Students will describe the process and structure of teacher certification in their respective states and compare them to other state processes and structures.
- Students will demonstrate effective job application and interview skills.
Ethics and Professionalism
- Students will recognize and analyze the current state code of educator conduct.
- Students will identify and evaluate the Teacher’s Bill of Rights.
- Students will understand how teachers can exhibit leadership as advocates and agents of change for education.
- Students will assess the importance of service to the community and civic responsibility.
Leadership
- Students will determine characteristics of effective leaders.
- Students will compare and contrast leadership and management styles.
- Students will begin to develop their own leadership style.
- Students will explore the role of professional education organizations.
- Students will determine the roles and responsibilities that leaders and followers bring to an organization.
- Students will evaluate characteristics of effective teams.
EXPERIENCING THE CLASSROOM
Observation and Preparation
- Students will analyze their strengths and areas for improvement as potential teachers.
- Students will identify and distinguish between instructional goals, objectives, strategies, and outcomes.
- Students will analyze ways in which a teacher’s personality, disposition, and cultural competence impact instructional style and interaction.
- Students will defend effective teaching methodologies.
- Students will evaluate components of effective classroom climate, management, and discipline.
- Students will incorporate various technologies in the planning of effective instruction and demonstrate its application.
- Students will evaluate various assessment techniques.
- Students will design and deliver an effective lesson for instructor and peer feedback that differentiates instruction to accommodate all learners.
Application and Instruction: The Internship with a Cooperating Teacher
- Students will implement developmentally appropriate learning activities for all learners in order to build confidence, knowledge, and skills.
- Students will accommodate major physical, social, and personal challenges that can impede successful learning.
- Students will apply knowledge of learning styles, multiple intelligences, Bloom’s Taxonomy, and brain-based strategies for learning to instruction and assessment.
- Students will design and deliver an effective lesson in a classroom setting that differentiates instruction to accommodate all learners.
- Students will apply the components of effective classroom climate, management, and discipline.
EXPERIENCING EDUCATION
Analysis and Reflection
- Students will evaluate positive and negative aspects of the teaching profession.
- Students will describe, analyze, and think systematically about their practice and reflect on their field experiences.
- Students will develop a personal philosophy of education.
- Students will submit requested data for program development and evaluation in a timely manner.