The Professional Education program offers a continuum of clinical field experiences beginning with a candidate's first semester. Through continuous feedback and support in our undergraduate programs, our candidates are transformed into effective educators. Seasoned educators may continue their educational studies through many graduate level programs. Various programs are offered in different modalities, such as a teacher assistant program, a teacher residency program, and online programs.
The School of Education has afforded me a myriad of opportunities to continue to develop professionally. From trips to Charleston Promise Schools, to fully paid conferences and the ability to have one-to-one instruction with faculty who make you feel like family, Campbell's School of Education is truly unparalleled.
While the Campbell University Professional Education Program prepares teachers for a variety of settings in public schools, one unique characteristic of the student population is that many of them will teach in rural settings. The program is geared to prepare students for that setting, as well as the more urban communities. All faculty pride themselves on their student orientation and personalization reflected in the advisement and one-on-one student interaction. Faculty also model the integration of faith and learning in their classes and in their professional roles. Candidates find camaraderie among other students in the program and develop leadership designed to prepare them to lead within the classroom. 100 percent of our candidates ready to enter the classroom find employment with local school districts.
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Amount
Description
Endowed Scholarships
Through the generosity of the University’s supporters, we are able to offer our private scholarship endowment fund to help Campbell students receive a Christian education. Each year, over 1,600 students are awarded endowed scholarships. See more information here.
School of Education Endowed Scholarships Contact: Dr. Chris Godwin, 910-814-4331
$8500
Teaching Scholars
Teaching Scholars Academy is a scholarship program designed to inspire the teacher leaders of the future. Scholars can major in any area of education with teacher licensure. See more info here.
Teaching Scholars Contact: Dr. Terrie Bethea-Hampton, 910-893-1715
Art (K-12) Biology (9-12) Birth to Kindergarten (PK-K) Elementary Education (K-6) English (9-12) Health & Physical Education (K-12) Language Arts, Middle Grades (6-9) Math (9-12) Math, Middle Grades (6-12) Music (K-12) Science (9-12) Science, Middle Grades (6-9) Social Studies (9-12) Social Studies, Middle Grades (6-9) Spanish (K-12) Special Education: General Curriculum (K-12) Theater Arts (K-12)
Program Semesters/Steps Overview
Candidates explore why we teach through short field clinical experiences embedded in introductory education courses.
Candidates explore how students learn as they begin specialized coursework toward the area/content they wish to teach.
Planning effective instruction becomes the focus as candidates explore the learning cycle and how student engagement is critical to the overall success of P-12 students.
Candidates begin the year long journey as they explore how to become an effective teacher in two critical clinical field experiences: the practicum and the student teaching field experiences. This year concludes their preparation to become a highly effective first year teacher!
Program Hallmarks
Our candidates begin freshman year with short field experiences. Candidates are provided with opportunities to develop, demonstrate and evaluate their professional knowledge and skills in the major areas of teacher responsibility. Typically, candidates participate in 10 hours of short field clinicals in the first year, 20 hours in the second year, and 30 hours in the third year. The practicum precedes student teaching, typically during the fall semester, and is supervised with regular visits from the college supervisor and monitored by the clinical teacher. The Student Teaching experience is designed to allow candidates opportunities to translate the theoretical concepts learned in on-campus classes to real life experiences in public school classrooms. The Student Teaching Clinical Field Experience lasts the entire semester.
Candidates within our program explore the unique diverse student populations through discourse within each of the education courses. In addition, each of the clinical field experiences require candidates to not only observe, but to discuss with veteran educators diversity and how the educational setting is dealing with diversity. Through honest and transparent explorations of data results, school climate/culture walkthroughs, our candidates are able to develop problem-solving skills to determine effective and meaningful ways to serve the diversity among the student populations they encounter. More importantly, our candidates are required to develop effective lesson plans that appreciate and build upon diversity for engaging lessons.
The Professional Education program works closely with each local education agency to secure placements with experienced teachers who are designated as highly successful and willing to work with teacher education candidates in a supervisory role. Through collaboration with these school districts, our candidates are placed in a multitude of classrooms with as much diversity among the clinical teachers as possible. Many of our adjunct faculty members are also highly experienced teachers. All of these teachers are trained in the supervision process and provide excellent constructive feedback to our candidates.
The Teacher Education Program is nationally accredited by the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP). This accrediting body requires evidence based measures to ensure continuous improvement throughout our teacher education program. Through bi-annual stakeholder meetings with local school officials and educators, including the College of Arts and Sciences faculty involved in our secondary programs, program data is analyzed to determine necessary improvements within our various programs. Feedback is solicited continually throughout our program. The feedback provided through surveys of graduates of our programs, as well as students currently enrolled in our programs and administrators who hire our students, add a voice to this data analysis and allow for targeted improvements. The student organization within the Professional Education Department allows faculty to gather student input throughout their enrollment in our program. Our program has developed a Problem Based Learning approach to determine the next best steps toward improvement.
Stats
Gender
Male
Female
10%
90%
Ethnicity
American Indian or Alaskan Native
Asian
Black
Hispanic/Latino
Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander
White
Two or more races
0%
0%
27%
2%
0%
67%
4%
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