At the Core, Philosophy Doesn’t Change

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Brooke Bruton helps screen kindergarten students at Harp Elementary School at the start of her teaching internship at the Springdale school.

New state educational standards dictate some changes in preparing teachers, but the philosophy at the University of Arkansas remains the same: to graduate teachers who know how to assess their students’ level of learning and to design a differentiated curriculum to meet their students’ needs.

You can read more on the Colleague site about what the curriculum and instruction faculty in the College of Education and Health Professions are doing to prepare teacher-education students to use Common Core standards.