TFA Seminar II

To fulfill credential requirements, Teach for America corps members are required to pass Seminar in Transformational Leadership and Teaching 1 and 2 during their first year in the corps. Corps’ members standing in this course depends upon regular attendance, engagement in the sessions, and successful completion of the course work. This course will develop corps members’ competencies in the Teaching as Leadership (TAL) framework, content pedagogy, and our developing understanding of transformational teaching. More specifically, it will ensure that all corps members are proficient in; vision setting for transformation outcomes; use of data to communicate student progress to goals and to continually improve effectiveness; classroom execution to transformation outcomes, aligned to best practices in content area instruction; professional dispositions expected of all teachers oriented to social justice for students.