COE teacher education candidates engage in study groups, peer supervision, peer teaching and teaching teams. Graduates from COE teacher education programs are catalysts for change in educational environments. With the benefit of an education that prepares them to anticipate and manage changes in educational setting, COE graduates do not wait for the educational environment to change undirected. Rather they will foster and encourage changes that result in improved educational practice. COE faculty composition reflects a response to change in diversity of faculty backgrounds and level of experience.
Faculty members recognize the importance of directing and responding to change.
They engage in cutting-edge research. Consequently, graduates from COE programs arrive in classrooms armed with a variety of instructional techniques and pedagogical strategies that they can use to enhance student achievement. COE faculty model for candidates the collection and use of assessment information to track student achievement. Faculty base decisions about programs and educational practices on sound data. They model gathering dependable evidence and how to involve students in the assessment process.