In seven of the last eight years, Maharishi School students have won at least one of the two first prizes in the state science and engineering fairs. For prospective teachers seeking to bring excellence and fulfillment to the school experience, Maharishi School offers an excellent example of what can be achieved in an ideal school. Students gain a good introduction to technology through use in all their courses and learn how to incorporate computers in their classroom work. Portfolios Students create a portfolio of their work as part of a performance assessment at the end of the program. In this final class, students synthesize and present their accomplishments in the program including papers, projects, and exams, examples of their students' work, videotaped examples of their teaching, observational reports others have made of their work, reproductions of charts they have created for classroom use, and a strategic plan to continually grow in teaching skills.
Students are able to use their portfolio to present themselves to potential employers.
Personal growth Teaching is a giving profession, and one can only give what one has. MUM offers an education program that develops students as whole human beings so that every day they have more to give to their students. As a result of this growth, Education students at MUM not only become better educators, but also better parents, better spouses, better friends. They learn the curriculum and teaching methods appropriate to both settings and have experience teaching and observing in both kinds of schools. With deficits of 50,000 teachers or more annually for the next decade, and with the increasing number of programs and special projects involving Consciousness-Based education around the world, our students will have abundant teaching opportunities after graduation.