The Principle Approach is a life-long study, setting a trajectory for your personal growth and learning, and for the children and students entrusted to you. FACE offers a pathway of preparation that certifies a Principle Approach Master Teacher with the credential.
Why is this important to you ? The very word ‘certify’ means “to make certain, to make known an established fact.” Have I not written to you excellent things of counsels and knowledge, that I may make you know the certainty of the words of truth, that you may answer words of truth to those who send to you? Proverbs 22:20-21
What difference does a credential make? Principle Approach study and teaching forms an exceptional level of scholarship and skill. Based on decades of teacher training and supervision, FACE has developed a Principle Approach Master Teacher Certification program that lays a sound and certain foundation. The program enriches your current teaching and learning with growing confidence in the integrity of your achievement in an endorsement “derived from other sources than personal knowledge, as from the testimony of others.” (from Webster 1828, credence) Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips. Proverbs 27:2
C̵RED´IT, n. [Fr. credit; It. credito; Sp. id.; L. creditum. See Creed.] 1. Belief; faith; a reliance or resting of the mind on the truth of something said or done. 2. Reputation derived from the confidence of others. Esteem; estimation; good opinion founded on a belief of a man’s veracity, integrity, abilities and virtue;
C̵REDEN´TIALS, n. plu. That which gives credit; that which gives a title or claim to confidence; the warrant on which belief, credit or authority is claimed, among strangers.
The Master Teacher Certification Process is individualized.
The process of obtaining Principle Approach Master Teacher Certification consists of three steps that include, at minimum, two separate resident weeks at the FACE Hall-Slater Library and Teaching Center.
- The Foundation Course: The Foundation Course is the first level to a Principle Approach Master Teacher Certification, followed by Practicum I, is taught each summer onsite in Chesapeake, Virginia and other locations. The practicum must be completed before the second-level can be taken.
- The Application Course: The Application Course is the second level to Principle Approach Master Teacher Certification and is taught only onsite in Chesapeake, Virginia each summer in July and is followed by Practicum II.
- The Exhibition Course: On completion of The Application Course and Practicum II, the third level of Principle Approach Master Teacher Certification requires a four-day “Exhibit” onsite in Chesapeake, Virginia.
The Master Teacher Program includes a mentor, a Principle Approach Master Teacher, who walks with you through the program, grades your Foundation and Application Course homework, Practicum I and Practicum II, answers questions and prepares you to present your lesson in the Exhibition Course.
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