Alverno College Education Department Abilities
CONCEPTUALIZATION is the integration of content knowledge with educational frameworks and a broadly based understanding of the liberal arts to plan and implement instruction. Teachers use their conceptualization skills when they plan lessons and units to meet both current and future needs of students.
DIAGNOSIS involves relating observed behavior to relevent frameworks in order to determine and implement learning prescriptions. Diagnosis relates to the teacher's ability to analyze and solve problems. Teachers need to be able to move flexibly between seeing a group of students as a group and seeing the group as a collection of individuals with varying characteristics, needs and talents. As a teacher, you must have a working knowledge of the appropriate developmental, pedagogical, and subject area frameworks with which to interpret the behavior of learners so that you can determine how to structure learning appropriately.
COORDINATION is managing resources effectively to support learning goals. As a teacher, you must identify , allocate, organize and manage resources as they relate to the total learning environment.
COMMINUCATION requires using verbal, nonverbal, and media modes of communication to establish the environment of the classroom and to structure and reinforce learning.
INTEGRATIVE INTERACTION means acting with professional values as a situation decision maker, adapting to the changing needs of the of the environment in order to develop students as learners. This ability requires a sensitivity to all students, manifested in the way that you create relationships between yourself and students and among students in a class. It is the ability that brings together all of the above.
Source: Alverno College Bulletin 2002-2004, p. 101
DIAGNOSIS involves relating observed behavior to relevent frameworks in order to determine and implement learning prescriptions. Diagnosis relates to the teacher's ability to analyze and solve problems. Teachers need to be able to move flexibly between seeing a group of students as a group and seeing the group as a collection of individuals with varying characteristics, needs and talents. As a teacher, you must have a working knowledge of the appropriate developmental, pedagogical, and subject area frameworks with which to interpret the behavior of learners so that you can determine how to structure learning appropriately.
COORDINATION is managing resources effectively to support learning goals. As a teacher, you must identify , allocate, organize and manage resources as they relate to the total learning environment.
COMMINUCATION requires using verbal, nonverbal, and media modes of communication to establish the environment of the classroom and to structure and reinforce learning.
INTEGRATIVE INTERACTION means acting with professional values as a situation decision maker, adapting to the changing needs of the of the environment in order to develop students as learners. This ability requires a sensitivity to all students, manifested in the way that you create relationships between yourself and students and among students in a class. It is the ability that brings together all of the above.
Source: Alverno College Bulletin 2002-2004, p. 101