College of Education Five Year Plan 2007-2012
The College of Education five-year goals and actions include:
Regenerate the professions of teaching, administration, and scholarship
- Rejuvenate teacher inquiry to educate diverse learners in an information and communication technology society.
- Prepare and provide school and higher education leadership to integrate standards that meet 21st century learner needs.
- Create mechanisms to respond to increasing globalization influences on professional preparation, research, scholarship, and leadership.
- Create support for faculty seeking to regenerate their own knowledge base and skills in order to educate diverse learners for the 21st century.
- Review all programs to target admissions and resource allocation to meet emerging and projected societal needs for teachers, administrators, faculty, and educational leaders.
Challenge and create solutions to educational inequity
- Prepare educational professionals to teach and lead in challenging school settings.
- Inform and advocate for research-based policy solutions to educational inequity and school challenges.
- Create evidence-based systemic solutions to school challenges in a 21st century information technology society.
Engage in unique, creative and productive partnerships
- Create and strengthen relationships between practicing professionals and College of Education faculty.
- Coordinate and formalize agreements across program partnerships.
- Create new partnerships whose purpose is to educate diverse learners in an information and communication technology society.
- Evaluate each partnership for its positive outcomes for all stakeholders.
Support cutting edge research and scholarly endeavors
- Create and support university and school research teams who pursue solutions to educating diverse 21st century learners.
- Develop and support research on field-based education for preparation of 21st century educational professionals and leaders.
- Implement effective, competitive models of graduate education based on research and contemporary practice.
Increase diversity at all levels of the organization
- Create a learning organization reflective of the diversity of the 21st century society
- Use systematic methods for recruitment, selection and retention of diverse faculty, staff, and students.
- Develop and support faculty and student global initiatives.
Develop a dynamic, comprehensive technological environment
- Create and implement a plan for integration of 21st century learning, information, and communication technology into the curricula of all programs.
- Provide and support professional development among the faculty in the integration and use of 21st century learning, information, and communication technology.
- Create and implement a plan for a 21st century learning, information, and communication infrastructure.
Increase our endowments and alternative resources
- Seek resources, funding, and endowments from corporate, individual, and foundation sponsors to attain our vision of transforming 21st century learning.
- Seek resources and funding from governmental agencies to attain our vision of transforming 21st century learning.
Accomplishments
The accomplishments in the College of Education reflect our "commitment to educate teachers who will be responsive to the moral and intellectual demands of a democratic society" (Realizing the Democratic Ideal).
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