The School of Education offers credential and graduate
programs designed to meet the needs of aspiring and practicing
educators, counselors, and leaders. Marked by its urban setting, the
School reaches out and contributes to the several communities we serve.
By valuing the individual, the School provides a
caring,
interactive, and academically challenging climate through:
- Instilling a passion for knowledge, wisdom,
and
justice
- Fostering a desire to celebrate a modern,
multicultural world
- Building a commitment to creativity and
compassion
- Heightening ethical standards
- Developing the intellect
- Enhancing professional skills
To these ends, we foster a community marked by
the
commitment of the Jesuit, Catholic urban university to issues of justice
and intellectual rigor. We maintain a community that supports faculty,
students, staff, alumni, and friends in accomplishing their lifelong
learning goals.
In an effort to outline more specific
knowledge, behaviors,
and sentiments with which any student should leave a School of Education
program, and to provide a more tangible statement of student growth
implied in the Mission statement, the School of Education identifies the
following seven goals for all program graduates. Each program
elaborates these goals into learning outcomes specific to their program
objectives and content, and the curricular depth of each goal varies
depending on whether the program culminates in a credential, a master's
degree, or a doctoral degree:
Apply research and inquiry skills
- Conducts thorough, high quality information
searches
- Understands prominent research methodologies
- Reads and uses empirical research
- Applies research to professional practice
Show sensitivity to persons of different
cultures and
backgrounds
- Communicates to persons of different cultures
and
backgrounds
- Understands cultural and ethnic differences
that can
affect teaching, learning and human interaction
- Shows awareness of the necessity for just,
inclusive,
and ethnically sensitive language
Follow ethical standards in academic and
professional work
- Understands and applies ethical standards in
research
- Shows sensitivity to the ethical and moral
considerations underlying professional decisions
- Can focus school communities and agencies on
local,
national, and global needs of different culture and ethnic groups
- Understands the need to act with integrity
Master important historical information as well
as current
issues and theories in education and psychology
- Knows current educational and psychological
theories
- Links theory to practice
- Speaks and writes effectively and persuasively
about
current issues in education and psychology and can apply theory and
research to these issues
Make appropriate use of educational technology
- Applies technology when appropriate to support
professional work
- Knows current software in their professional
field
- Uses technology to access library and Internet
resources
Gain personal awareness and engage in a process
of
continuous self development
- Collaborates with others
- Articulates a (educational) mission and
philosophy
- Joins and/or attends professional associations
and
meetings
- Shows social and personal responsibility
- Develops awareness of personal beliefs and
values
Understand the place of service in education
and attempt to
provide such service in appropriate educational forums
- Exhibits generosity in service to others
- Engages others in educational service
- Shows sensitivity to the underserved
