A Holistic Educational Approach for Offsite Teacher Education Programs

This paper examines the cultural impacts on off-campus school-based teacher-training programs.These programs offer teacher candidates to experience a real world understanding of the culture of a school.The study concludes that teacher candidates benefit from immersion in the school environment.This allows teacher candidates to experience first-hand knowledge, which does not occur with textbook.Furthermore, off-campus teacher-training programs encourage the teacher candidates to celebrate the demographics of a school.In summary, the cultural impacts may help change attitude, clear biases, remove barriers, and assist in creating a holistic approach in modifying and adapting appropriate instructional strategies to each individual student.This paper focuses on an off-campus approach to teacher education.