SSTE Learning Outcomes

Understand and demonstrate a sociohistorical and sociocultural analysis of inequity in US schools and society.
Learn about communities organizing for educational justice and ways teachers are and can be involved in collective changes.

Develop a foundation of socially just teaching and learning methods (curricular and pedagogical) that disrupt dominant ideologies and inequalities.
Design lessons and deliver instruction that is linguistically, culturally, and developmentally appropriate to students.
Promote critical and creative thinking and analysis in students through lesson design.
Engage students through lessons enriched by substantive knowledge of the content, real-life contexts, active learning, technology, and visual and performing arts.

Learn and develop effective methods for cultivating a caring, supportive, nurturing, and rigorous classroom community (within our teacher education classrooms and at school sites).
Incorporate restorative practices to inform community building and restorative justice to support socioemotional learning and individual and collective responsibility for community.
Cultivate a supportive learning environment for all students, particularly emergent multilingual students and students with learning differences.
Communicate high expectations for student learning classroom behavior and identify appropriate supports necessary to allow students to meet those expectations.

Integrate family and community partners in classroom practice and student assessments.
Demonstrate professional practice growth in partnership with communities, families, and students.

Use critical inquiry groups with a problem-posing framework to grow within the teaching practice.
Using critical reflection and reflexivity, consider your ideological development through schooling and socialization.
Engage in professional consultation and collaboration with other educators to plan for instruction.

Examine how ideologies shape our classroom space, interaction with students, parent(s)/guardian(s), colleagues, community members, and administrators.
Develop and incorporate sustainable mindfulness practices in our lives (personal and professional).

Use a variety of formative and summative assessments to meet the needs of different learners, including student self-assessment and self-reflection as partners in teaching and learning.