Development Process

With the core University outcomes as our mandate, the School of Education undertook its own strategic planning process during the 1998-99 school year to clarify the relationship between the mission and education plan of the University and the conceptual framework for programs in the School of Education. The work of that strategic planning process involved selected members of the faculty and the constituent community initially and was affirmed by the full faculty. It resulted in the adoption of a revised mission statement, vision statement, and the adoption of a set of competencies for our teacher certification program, and a separate set of outcomes for our graduate programs, which draw from the work of the learned and professional societies, the state Essential Academic Learning Requirements students, and current research. The conceptual framework is reviewed and revised as needed by the full faculty and staff at periodic Curriculum Committee meetings.