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[Kostelnik] The Department of Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education is a department that has wonderful
teachers, a wonderful sense of community.
Imagine a 2014 Pine Ridge trip.
[Kostelnik] And they really have come together in their efforts to provide the very best education for students at UNL.
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[Heaton] I think it's a group of faculty members committed to teaching and connecting their research to the practice of teaching.
[Wunder] The collective overall commitment to students, to teaching, to learning...
wow, each faculty member has an area of specialization.
All of us have in common that very important and strong commitment.
What would your students do, middle school and high school. How would they solve this?
[McGowan] Our department, our researchers, our faculty members are producing better understanding of what it takes to be a teacher.
The result is a group of teacher educators always thinking about teaching.
We're gonna actually build a tree here.
[Pederson] What happens when we get our students engaged in doing hands-on activities
it really empowers them to be better teachers.
It can come alive for us so that way we can make it alive for our kids.
[McGowan] Teachers are always learning, need to be learning, and we need to provide that opportunity for them.
[Wunder] Technology is omnipresent, it's everywhere and we need to help students figure out the best ways
to utilize that technology in ways that really do enhance student learning.
[Kostelnik] They really help students advance in their knowledge. They treat students as part of a learning community.
They really give students a sense of pride in their profession.
You look as tired as a new mother with triplets.
I actually transferred from another University of Nebraska school because the education program where I am at now was better.
[Heaton] They care about student learning and they want to help teachers provide rich opportunities for K-12 students.
You hear for example coming out of Washington about what we need to do for reforming teacher education,
we smile a little bit because those are things that have been part of our program for ten years.
I always tell people they should be education majors,
just because the faculty is great, the counselors are great.
They really prepare you before you start teaching.
I feel prepared to teach.
It was a great community to be with.
We're gonna start with team number one, they get to choose a category.
We have people who take the learning of students seriously.
As your doing it, tell her what are you thinking about, why are you changing it and what's going through your mind.
There is a commitment, a love of teaching that I have not run into anywhere else.
How we doing on completing the worksheets?
We get excellent students coming in and we produce excellent teachers as a result.
And those teachers, about half of them, stay in the state of Nebraska.
And they are in every county in Nebraska.
In addition, we have teachers from this department in every state of the union.
And to use them in your writing.
So it is a far reach that this department has.
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