The primary purpose of Teacher Education is to prepare and provide a current and future population of teachers to meet the needs of school districts that hire UW-Parkside teacher education graduates. Needs expressed by administrators from Kenosha, Racine, and other southeastern school districts demand that future teachers utilize integrated, interdisciplinary, in-depth, multicultural perspectives and approaches to teaching and learning. Moreover, they must comprehend, create, and initiate multiple means of student assessment. Students admitted to Teacher will continue to successfully complete requirements for graduation and licensure in a timely manner, barring factors beyond program or the individual's control such as personal matters. To offer a high quality teacher education preparation program which prepares potential teachers for, and assures them of, prompt employment in Wisconsin, or anywhere else they may apply.
Feedback regarding program direction and implementation is consistent.
Written and oral evaluations are received from students at every level of the program, from cooperating teachers and administrative and other personnel in field schools throughout the academic year as an integral part of course requirements. The revised integrated Teacher Education curriculum facilitates rapid completion of a certification program. Integrating mastery of concepts at subsequent levels of complexity in the curriculum has also eliminated redundancy and maximized opportunities to observe student performance using multiple points of view. Graduation rates may be found in Appendix Table 1. TEDU courses and their frequency are shown below.