Foreign Language Education Program:

GUIDING PRINCIPLES

The guiding principles at the core of the FL Education program at UGA align with the Georgia Framework for Teaching proposed by the Georgia Systemic Teacher Education Program and adopted by the Georgia Department of Education in October 2005:

The Process Principle: Learning to teach is a career-long process of development and growth.
The Support Principle: All educators share responsibility for supporting their colleagues as professional peers.
The Ownership Principle: Teachers design their own career paths.
The Impact Principle: Effective teaching yields evidence of student learning and achievement.
The Equity Principle: All students and teachers deserve equally high expectations and support.
The Dispositions Principle: Productive dispositions positively affect student learning, teacher growth, and school climate.
The Technology Principle: Teachers use technology to facilitate teaching, learning, community building, and resource acquisition.

To this structure, the FL Education program included one additional component:

The Reflective Principle: Reflection is an essential element of professional growth. All teachers must thrive to become reflective practitioners so that they can continuously explore their identity as teachers, the quality of their practice, and the needs of their diverse students.