The Mars Hill College Model: The Teacher Professional

A teacher preparation program based on the Teacher Professional model will produce educators of the highest quality for the children in American public schools. This trifold model requires candidates to be grounded in the liberal arts and knowledgeable in their content areas, well-versed in instructional theory and its practical application, and committed to professional values and ethics.

As teacher educators, Norlander-Case and Reagan assert that outstanding teachers “must have something important to teach (that is, they must themselves be informed), they must have the capability to teach well what they know, and they must continually help children through their example, to care about learning, themselves, and each other” (1999, p. 60).

Moreover, the Teacher Professional model reaffirms the goals of the mission of Mars Hill College and reflects the values and aims of both the present curriculum and the revised General Education curriculum which was implemented beginning in the fall of 2001.

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