Mission - The College of Education
The mission of the College of Education is to prepare caring, competent, reflective and highly-qualified professionals.
Description
The College of Education offers two undergraduate degrees and post-baccalaureate licensures in 16 areas of licensure and five endorsements. The Master of Arts in Education program, which is built around the theme of "educational leadership," offers multiple emphasis areas and five endorsements. The Educational Technology endorsement is available only at the master's level. The Doctor of Education program features applied and professional training with dissertation support. Emphasis in the Ed.D. program is in translating research into effective systems of instruction, supervision, and leadership.
Teacher Education Vision
To facilitate the mission of the College of Education, members of the faculty in the teacher education program have developed a conceptual framework which reflects their philosophical and pragmatic commitment to experientially-based active learning and meaningful field-based involvement with children and teachers in P-12 schools.
Faculty also support and model the integration of technology across the curriculum. Fundamentals, professional knowledge, research and content areas are basic to effective teaching. Pre-service teachers must translate professional understanding, personal beliefs and experience into real-world teaching situations. They must also apply appropriate assessments, practice collaboration, exercise innovation and accommodate for student diversity.
Member, the Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate (CPED)
The Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate (CPED) selected the Doctor of Education program at the University of Findlay to join its consortium in spring 2017. The universities and colleges in the consortium have committed resources to work together to take a critical look at doctorate of education programs through dialog, experimentation, feedback and evaluation.
Accreditation
The University of Findlay's College of Education is accredited by the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP). NCATE and the Teacher Education Accreditation Council (TEAC) consolidated to form CAEP. The mission of both NCATE and CAEP is accountability and improvement of educator preparation. The accreditation process ensures rigorous standards for educator preparation programs have been met and that the institution is accountable for providing continuous evidence of meeting these standards. Some programs are nationally approved, notably Intervention Specialist, Multi-Age Health, Early Childhood, Education Administration and Middle Childhood.
The University of Findlay is also accredited by the Higher Learning Commission and the Ohio Department of Higher Education.