Professional Development Schools and ESU
ESU Professional Development School Vision
Nationally recognized collaborative for excellence in teacher education that:
- Models a climate of ongoing professional growth that educates, sustains, and renews all participants.
- Encourages partners to share roles of learner and educator
- Uses action research, inquiry and reflection about our practice to promote and affect authentic learning experiences.
- Creates learning communities within the various layers of the partnership.
- Uses reflective and deliberate decision making to benefit student and adult learning.
The PDS relationship between ESU and our partners in basic education demands a more collaborative, accountable, and comprehensive way of working and thinking about teaching and learning and valuing student success in the K-12 classroom and at the university.
These relationships foster
- Collegiality and renewed vitality through dialogue and professional development
- Critical and creative thinking about curriculum, teaching and student learning
- Universal design and an inclusive approach to teaching and learning
- In-depth clinical field experiences and service learning that contextualizes the complexity of classrooms, schools and community
- Standards-based best practices and continuous inquiry into teaching practice
- Co-teaching, differentiated, and integrated learning models to ensure student success
