Transcript Well, you can see that I’m, you know, strongly an advocate for for bilingual and bi literacy, but I’m also, you know, I’m advocating those things for all of the content areas. And what we have here with our faculty is really we have all of our all but two of our faculty are […]
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Transcript the success? Well, you know, that’s a that’s a that’s a tough question. I think what we’re what we need to do better at this point is have different ways of understanding how well our teacher educators are doing with regard to the kinds of things that they’re doing in their class. Because teacher
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Transcript we really we really work towards that. That’s hard. Our students here, you know, I’ve I come from the University of California and we had a student teacher aid program there that they claimed was the best in California. And I, when I came here and had my first students and I had them
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Transcript Educator preparation here is is we look at it as an arc of experience that our students have really starting as low as middle school and high school with our TAFE students. A Texas Association of Future Educators. Those students who learn about the profession of teaching early on in high school and then
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Transcript My name is Christian Faltis, and I’ve been here for a year and a half and I’m currently in the chair position . I came here as a professor in bilingual education and I’m currently in the chair position while the the the other chair is across the campus in an administrative role within
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Transcript I think. It’s very important that I think being a multiculturally competent educator in this day and age is so important. And a lot of times when we refer to multiculturalism, everybody thinks about race and ethnicity, but it’s well beyond that and having individuals that are going into the educational field, it’s important
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Transcript Just being just being a part of TAFE, there’s more exposure to networking systems out there. You know, the regional conference right now that’s happening there, networking with 18 different counties in the state of Texas, and it’s in a virtual format, but they’re already, you know, talking to and sending text back and
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Transcript Really, they have. We have about bi monthly meetings. The officers and I meet at least once or twice a month, and then we have membership meetings at least once a month. And we talk about especially when competitions are coming up. We talk about different lessons and thinking, come up with how are
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Transcript I really think that what they’re learning here and the experiences that they’ve had are going to allow them to be one marketable to a position where they feel as if they can be the best fit and will foster personal and professional growth as educators. But then also having the opportunity to. Kind
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Transcript I think. When we go to college for any individual, sometimes you go with a group, sometimes you go by yourself, but it’s a whole new transitional stage in life. We all go through transitional stages, especially in their educational journey and each. Hard impact of the transition, say, for instance, between elementary and
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