The Philosophy of the Daemen College Teacher / Leadership Quality Partnership (T/LQP) project is to engage college faculty, in-service educators and teacher candidates in a paradigm for life-long learning. The learning community established and maintained by the Daemen College Teacher / Leadership Quality Partnership (T/LQP) project is committed to both master teacher educator and professional teaching and learning standards.1
We believe that an active discourse based on meeting standards, such as the peer review process promoted by the New York State Academy for Teaching and Learning (NYSATL), can be utilized to increase pedagogical content knowledge and can in turn improve P-12 student achievement. Established protocols ensure discourse is grounded in our four program principles of: 1) Equity, 2) Teaching and Learning, 3) Data Strategies: Assessment and 4) Technology. We further believe that both support and opportunities to learn must be provided to all community members so they apply newly developed knowledge, skills, and dispositions to practical educational settings. Within the learning community, reflection upon the principles of our program inspires personal and collective growth. Our learning community exists within the Daemen College learning community and its wider constituencies, where resources, technology, support services, information, and due process rights empower faculty, in-service teachers, and teacher candidates.2
1The faculty has adopted the Standards for Teacher Educators and has committed to an adapted version of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards as guiding standards for the 2Education Department of Daemen College.
The above philosophy is derived from Section 4-2.5 Standards for Regents Accreditation of teacher education programs/Standards of quality
