Faculty do not have expertise in this perspective. Priority of workload is to the classes faculty teach here at the Community College. We are a community college with an Elementary Education Option under Liberal Arts in which we advise students on choice of courses depending upon which four-year school they plan to attend. Its focus is on initial teacher training and advanced training in museum education and community-arts education. Our program is limited by the College to those courses required to prepare our students for a license.
Elective offerings focus on assessment, multiculturalism, inclusion as central themes of ed.
Most faculty are involved in serve-learning partnerships. Also part-time faculty limits more involvement even when interest could be assessed as high. Although faculty involved in the Elementary Ed department have moderate involvement, the faculty teaching general education requirements, at present, do not have much involvement. We prepare very few secondary teachers. New England data shown is only for those institutions declaring a teacher prep program.