KEA-SP Bylaws: Midway College Campus

Membership:
The membership year begins September 1 and ends on August 31^st. Students may refer to the Kentucky Education Association website (www.kea.org) for details regarding the benefits afforded by the organization. All teacher education students at Midway College must either be members of KEA-SP or show proof of liability insurance prior to field placements, student teaching, and portfolio submission. The annual dues will be $25.00 for the 2006-2007 school year. This includes four dollars local dues that will be used to fund projects in professional development, leadership, and community service.

KEA-SP Goals:

• To initiate, in cooperation with the State and National Education Associations, the development of professional interests, attitudes, and dispositions among college students actively engaged in preparing for the teaching profession.

• To acquaint prospective educators with the history, ethics, and program of the organized teaching profession.

• To provide practical experience by working together in a democratic way on the problems of the profession and community.

• To stimulate encouragement among capable women and men in pursuing teaching as a lifelong career.

• To encourage the chosen young men and women to strive continually for self-improvement in their teaching profession.

• To support, through active participation, high standards of teacher preparation.

• To secure increased public interest and support of education.

• To organize volunteer committees making clear the job of each committee member, specifying the definite beginning and ending of the assignment, and giving realistic expectations.

 

• hosted several professional development workshops,
• raised money and donated books to a variety of organizations,
• read to children at a center for the prevention of child abuse (The Nest),
• participated in a local community program to help middle-schoolers simulate the “reality” of income and living expenses (The Reality Store),
• collected food for a county food bank,
• planned after-school activities for children in the surrounding communities, and
• honored its program graduates annually with an end of the year dinner.

• professional liability coverage, which is required prior to field placements and student teaching, and
  
• free professional development workshops at annual conferences, as well as locally planned workshops.