EDUC 1045 - Introduction to the Teaching Profession

1. Student Learning 
   1. individual and systematic trauma 
   2. homelessness, foster care, incarceration, migration, medical fragility  
   3. racism, and micro and macro aggressions  
   4. culturally responsive strategies and resources 
2. Learning Environments 
   1. relationship-based and culturally affirming 
   2. non exclusionary discipline 
3. Instructional Strategies 
   1. real world learning opportunities 
   2. service learning, community-based learning, and project-based learning 
4. Professional Responsibilities 
   1. Code of Ethics 
      1. social media 
      2. privacy 
      3. boundaries in relationships with students 
   2. Student Rights 
      1. for educational equity 
      2. students with disabilities 
      3. confidentiality, privacy 
      4. appropriate treatment of students 
   3. Teacher Responsibilities 
      1. data practices 
      2. mandatory reporting requirements  
   4. Historical foundation of inequities in education in Minnesota 
      1. inequitable laws, policies, and practices on the basis of race, class, disability, religion, gender, sexual orientation, language, socioeconomic status, or country of origin 
      2. Indigenous students and other underserved students 
   5. Support resources 
      1. professional, community, and technological 
5. Collaboration and Leadership 
   1. communication with families 
   2. conventional teaching 
   3. leadership models 
      1. school, district, state, or national level 
      2. advocate for students, the school, the community, and the profession
6. The Teaching Profession
   1. Field Experience
   2. Career exploration tools
   3. Teacher education licensure and resources

1. explore the teaching profession.  
2. explain the impacts of trauma on learning and development.  
3. describe culturally responsive strategies and resources. 
4. describe how to cultivate culturally affirming relationships with students. 
5. identify instructional approaches that integrate real-world learning opportunities into instruction. 
6. demonstrate awareness of the standards of professional conduct in the Code of Ethics for Minnesota Teachers. 
7. explain laws related to student rights. 
8. explain laws related to teacher responsibilities. 
9. describe the inequitable historical foundations of education in Minnesota. 
10. identify professional, community, and technological resources for analysis, reflection, and problem solving. 
11. demonstrate culturally affirming communication with families. 
12. demonstrate an understanding of the responsibility to question normative school knowledge, conventional teaching and beliefs and assumptions about diverse students, their families, and communities. 
13. describe multiple leadership models for teachers to advocate for students, the school, the community, and the profession. 

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