Teacher Education Program

The courses in the Teacher Education Program provide a social, philosophical, psychological, and historical framework in which students can develop a personal philosophy of teaching. The Indiana Wesleyan University Teacher Education Program's knowledge base model, the "Teacher as Decision Maker," emphasizes decision-making within eight domains:

1. Content/subject matter expertise
2. Personal development (morals and ethics)
3. Professional development
4. Rights and responsibilities
5. Methodology
6. Management of time, classroom, and behaviors
7. Communication
8. Global and multicultural perspectives.

INTEGRATION OF FAITH AND LEARNING

The eight domains are integrated in the context of faith and learning as students discover the relationship between teaching and biblical principles.

The program is a blend of liberal arts education, content-specific course work, and clinical field placements that work together to provide the student with teaching situations that allow the theory presented within the university classroom to become applied knowledge within the world of the practitioner. All professors within the Teacher Education Program have had classroom experience and continue to work closely with current practicing teachers.

FIELD PLACEMENTS

Field experiences for all education majors begin in the Stage A, freshman year, with tutoring and mentoring activities in school-like settings. Stage B sophomore year experiences build on this foundation in area schools and classrooms. An observation and participation field experience is required of all elementary and secondary education majors in May of the Stage A or B year (this experience is not a requirement of the Exceptional Needs Program). Stage C junior year field experiences require students to teach and spend up to 180 clock hours in classrooms in area schools.

English Education