Teacher Education Program Model
Faculty Tours of Local Business & Industry Sites
The purpose of the tour was to help faculty:
- Understand how to prepare future teachers to make classroom teaching and learning more relevant to the world of work
- Learn about current, practical applications of content area disciplines in work places and what is expected of workers in modern technical and professional work settings
- Begin to identify experiences that could be designed for preservice students in teacher education programs to learn about work contexts and their applications to teaching/learning content knowledge in the schools.
Nakanishi Manufacturing
SunTrust Bank
Tour activities included pre-visit group orientations each day before the tour, a half-day visit per site to a total of five sites over three days, post-visit group discussion and reflection at the end of the tour, and individual journal writing/reflection by each faculty participant daily. Twenty-five CTL project faculty participated in the tour the first year. The tour was expanded in the second year to over 40 faculty by having each project faculty member invite a colleague from his or her department to participate in the tour.
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