What will you learn?
- Allegany College of Maryland’s Teacher Education program provides a strong foundation
for a successful career as an educator. Teachers are in high demand across the country
and now may be the perfect time to pursue a future in education. Students will participate
in a variety of learning experiences and environments in order to successfully complete
core professional courses and general education requirements toward the first two
years of teacher preparation. Our courses will cover such topics as:
- issues in education, ethics, and professionalism,
- the rewards and challenges of teaching,
- teacher reflection, self-growth, and self-responsibility,
- classroom planning and assessment,
- embracing learner diversity and multiculturalism
- Education majors will choose the areas of teaching which most interest them:
- Based on the area of interest in teaching:
- students will work with their advisor to choose appropriate and relevant coursework
- students will participate in field placements in surrounding elementary, middle and
high schools
- Students will increase professional vocabulary and communication skills, professional
behaviors, pedagogical decision-making skills, and appropriate dispositions of teachers
What will you do?
- Most teacher education graduates will continue their education at a four-year college
in order to obtain their Bachelor’s degree and teacher certification.
- Securing teaching positions around the country as teachers in early childhood, elementary,
middle and high school.
- Many will continue their education and seek a graduate degree in curriculum and instruction,
literacy, special education, guidance counseling, administration, and many other areas.
- Some graduates choose to pursue employment with their two-year degree as:
- teachers in childcare centers
- home daycare providers
- Head Start employees
- Paraprofessionals in the public school system
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Why ACM?
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Program Goals & Learning Outcomes
Program Goals
- Education majors will understand and be able to apply the knowledge, skills, dispositions
and characteristics inherent to a career as a highly qualified educator; to accommodate
the unique set of individual differences that each learner brings to the learning
venue, and to foster the learning experiences and environment that enable all learners
to reach their potential.
Learning Outcomes
- Education majors will demonstrate knowledge of learner differences and effective approaches
to accommodate those differences.
- Education majors will demonstrate knowledge of the multiple facets of education: the
teaching-learning cycle, the teacher preparation process, issues in education, ethics
and professionalism, rewards and challenges, self-growth and self-responsibility.
- Education majors will apply to their work the interconnectedness of the language,
physical, social, emotional and cognitive developmental stages of childhood and adolescence,
and the effects that each stage has on the child’s education.
- Education majors will apply the theory and application of developmentally appropriate
practices.
Meet the Faculty
Our experienced, knowledgeable faculty are excited to share their expertise with you
and prepare you to succeed in the diverse, dynamic field of Teacher Education.
