E-mail this pageAbout Childhood Education
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire!" - William Butler Yeats
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SUNY Plattsburgh's childhood education program is designed to inspire your learning so that you may one day inspire the learning of others. You will benefit from a program designed to develop competencies that are critical for tomorrow's teachers.
Program Themes
The program has nine themes that reoccur throughout the curriculum and build your ability to be an excellent educator. These include:
- Assessment - Effective teachers use assessment to guide their teaching.
- Collaboration - Effective teachers collaborate with all of those responsible for student development.
- Content in Context - Effective teachers know their content area and its disciplinary learning standards and adapt teaching strategies to match the needs of diverse learners.
- Critical Thinking and Problem Solving - Effective teachers develop their students' capabilities in critical thinking, problem solving, and decision making.
- Learning Environments - Effective teachers understand human behaviors and interactions and how those influence the learning environment.
- Modeling - Effective teachers exhibit professional commitment that is evident to their students.
- Multicultural Competency and Diversity - Effective teachers value the dignity, talents, and experiences of diverse students from many cultures and backgrounds.
- Recursive Learning - Effective teachers use developmentally appropriate and sequenced curriculum models supporting a coherent knowledge base that progressively builds upon itself.
- Technology - Effective teachers use technology appropriately to improve instruction and communication.
These themes are the focus of our program throughout the curriculum and are based on the needs of future teachers.
Questions, Comments, Suggestions?
If you would like to learn more about the Childhood Education Program, please drop us a line: education@plattsburgh.edu
Dr. Michael Morgan, Acting Chair
Office: Sibley Hall 406
Phone: (518) 564-5178
Fax: (518) 564-2149
morganmd@plattsburgh.edu
Jill Myers, Secretary
Phone: (518) 564-2154
E-mail: Jill.Myers@plattsburgh.edu