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“The dream begins, most of the time, with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you on to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called truth.” – Dan Rather

Why Teach?

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"Why do we teach? It is an important question. One that many credential students find staring back at them after a brutal day out in the trenches, but for me the answer is simple…I teach because of the students. I teach because I am passionate about education. I teach because there is nothing more rewarding in the world than to see a light bulb go off in a young person’s mind. I teach because the smile I give to a student might be the only smile he receives all day.” --Megan Sheridan('05 BS, '08 Credential)

Weepul Photo Contest

Photos must be submitted by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, February 26
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The Teacher Education Program invites students in the teacher education program to join in on some weepul fun!

The weepul, now a TE icon, represents everything warm and fuzzy about education. We've been using the weepul for the past two years at all of our recruitment sessions. They have been extremely popular so we've decided to take them out of the box and place them on our TE web pages. But we want the community of teacher education students to help us out.

Chris Faltis

Spotlight
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Chris Faltis, who holds the Dolly and David Fiddyment Chair in Teacher Education and directs teacher education at UC Davis, believes educators are primed to break away from the teacher-centered format that has dominated classroom discourse for several hundred years, if for no other reason than they must.

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