Teaching with Credential with Concentration in Catholic Education

Overview

Teaching with Credential with Concentration in Catholic Education at University of San Francisco is designed to integrate academic coursework with field experience.

Programs prepare graduates to assume leadership roles in both public and private schools.

Graduates with Teaching with Credential with Concentration in Catholic Education from University of San Francisco will be able to:

• Develop sociocultural and developmental perspectives on learners and learning that include knowledge of how cognition is related to identity, social, emotional, cultural, environmental, and physiological issues.

• Develop ability to closely observe classroom teaching (curriculum, pedagogy, assessment, classroom community/leadership), analyze using evidence, and apply lessons learned to one’s vision of teaching (for excellence and equity).

• Understand different approaches to curriculum, instruction, assessment, and classroom community/leadership; when to use them; and why.

• Develop habits of complex, critical thinking; inquiry; and reflection about theory and practice; challenge our own pre-conceptions of learning and teaching.

• Develop a vision of classroom teaching (for equity and excellence) based on big ideas from the course with the understanding that our ideals will be challenged by the realities of school and society.