"Your Place to Succeed!"

Our Candidates Are Reflective Practitioners, Advocators of Diversity, Effective Facilitators, Critical Thinkers, Proficient Technology Users, And Competent Evaluators!

    We are excited about many new initiatives and activities in the Teacher Education Program. Following is a description of a few initiatives selected from among many.

    A new conceptual framework model has been designed that articulates our shared values and beliefs. Students have contributed to the formulation of our model and supporting institutional standards through activities in their classrooms.

        The University -School Teacher Education Partnership (U-STEP) has as one of its main goals, the yearlong student internship. This entails a semester of observation and a semester of student teaching. All of our Elementary Education students have moved to the yearlong internship model.  All teacher education majors and minors will move to the yearlong internship model by 2004.

    The Northeastern North Carolina Transition To Teaching Project is a new program designed to assist professionals and paraprofessionals working in high-need school systems (Bertie, Beaufort, Edgecombe, Gates, Halifax, Hertford, Hyde, Martin, Nash/Rocky Mount, Pasquotank, Perquimans, and Washington) in meeting certification requirements for the state of North Carolina.  Participants can receive up to $1000 per year (in the form of a voucher) to satisfy tuition costs and must commit to being employed in one of the given high-need schools for at least three years. 

    The Maynard Scholars Program is in the process of selecting its next cohort of fifteen students who are interested in becoming teachers. The current cohort of students is working to complete the requirements for admission into the Teacher Education Program. The new Maynard Outreach Program to recruit more minority males into teacher education was launched with a visit from James and Connie Maynard who have been the benefactors for both of the Maynard initiatives.  The Maynard Outreach Project had its second summer of implementation.  Students were engaged in tutoring and enrichment activities.  The Maynard Outreach Project has enabled us to triple the number of minority males pursuing education as a major.

    The Prospective Teachers Club brings together those students who have expressed an interest in Education as a major. Their meetings are informative and are designed to keep students abreast of the recent developments in the Teacher Education Program and the profession. The student chapter of the North Carolina Association of Educators (SNCAE) is meeting on a regular basis. The SNCAE is a student-run organization for those education majors who have already been admitted to the Teacher Education Program. They were involved in several workshops last semester.

        We salute our Spring 2007 Graduates and congratulate them for a job well done!

Dr. Saundra S. Copeland
Chair of the Department of Education

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Created 12/01/2000

Revised 9/18/2007