College of Education
| College Office: | A110 Education Building | E-mail: | coe@stcloudstate.edu | |||
| Telephone: | 320-308-3023 | Web site: | www.stcloudstate.edu/coe | |||
| Fax: | 320-308-4237 | |||||
Dean: Dr. Kate Steffens
Interim Associate Dean: Dr. John Hoover
Mission and Goals
The College of Education mission statement and goals provide overall guidance for program development and improvement. The mission of the College is as follows:
The College of Education prepares transformative professional educators; educators who are prepared to facilitate the transformation of learners into life-long learners, critical and creative thinkers, and effective citizens in a democratic society.
The goals of the College are to:
- Facilitate in each student the development of perspectives, attitudes, learning strategies, sense of self-worth and productive habits of mind essential to higher order thinking, critical thinking and creative problem solving.
- Facilitate in each student acquisition of the values, dispositions, and abilities necessary for the lifelong assimilation, integration, transformation and application of knowledge to life's opportunities and challenges, and to evolution of our free democratic society.
- Prepare students within their respective disciplines and majors to become transformative professionals, able to continually transform themselves through knowledge, and able to facilitate attainment of goals one and two above in other learners.
College of Education Conceptual Framework
The College of Education, with a rich heritage of educator preparation, is committed to the preparation of high quality teachers, administrators, education scholars, and other school, community and business sector professionals.
To ensure continual emphasis on quality, the College of Education has adopted a conceptual framework for the preparation of educators, and this framework, Educator as Transformative Professional, guides all educator preparation programs within the college. Students seeking professional careers in education will be prepared to become transformative professional educators and will become performance capable in their specific discipline and in a number of other outcome areas. These outcome areas relate to the roles transformative educators will be expected to play in a continually changing educational environment and include possessing capabilities in content transformation, inclusive education, humanistic education, cultural transmissions and transformation, research, problem solving/decision making, reflective practice, taking of multiple perspectives, facilitating growth in the learner's knowledge base, and collaboration with others.
As students are prepared to become transformative professional educators, they will participate in designing their learning opportunities, will take responsibility for their own learning, and will continually work with faculty and peers to assess their progress toward becoming transformative educators. Assessment of progress and student learning needs will take place throughout the student's program, and will consist of both traditional and non-traditional forms of assessment, with ongoing self-assessment as a cornerstone of the process.
The preparation of transformative professionals for education careers is supported by an array of College programs and services designed to meet the needs of a continually expanding range of interests and needs among members of the communities served by the College of Education. College programs and activities are broad in scope, are interdisciplinary, are open to change, and are supported by a comprehensive knowledge base and conceptual framework. The broadened character and mission of the College are reflected in its programs with emphases in a wide array of human resources development and academic areas as indicated in the graduate degree programs listed below.
Departments and Centers Offering Graduate Degree Programs
Child and Family Studies
Child and Family Studies:
Early Childhood Special Education, M.S.
Child
and Family Studies: Early Education, M.S.
Child
and Family Studies: Family Studies, M.S.
Counselor Education and Educational Psychology
College Counseling and Student
Development, M.S.
Rehabilitation
Counseling, M.S.
School Counseling,
M.S.
School Counseling Certificate
Educational Leadership and Community Psychology
Applied Behavior
Analysis, M.S.
Chemical Dependency Certificate
Community
Counseling, M.S.
Community Education,
M.S.
Educational
Administration and Leadership, M.S., Specialist, Sixth-Year
Higher Education Administration, Ed.D.
Higher Education Administration, M.S.
Marriage and Family Therapy, M.S.
Marriage
and Family Therapy Certificate
Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Sport Science
Exercise
Science, M.S.
Physical Education,
M.S.
Sports Management,
M.S.
Human Relations and Multicultural Education
Social Responsibility,
M.S.
Center for Information Media
Educational
Media, M.S.
Information
Technologies, M.S.
Instructional Design
and Training,
M.S.
Instructional
Technology Certificate
Special Education
Special Education,
M.S.
Special Education Certificates:
Learning Disabilities
Emotional/Behavioral Disorders
Developmental Disabilities
Physical/Health Disabilities
Teacher Development
Curriculum
and Instruction, M.S.
