2024-2025 Undergraduate Hill Book
Education
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Faculty:
Department Chairperson:
Donna Lehr
Office: Duffy 263
dlehr@stonehill.edu
Professor:
K. Anderson
Associate Professor:
M. Chung
M. Pierce
Assistant Professor:
R. Corso
Housed in the May School of Arts and Sciences , the Department of Education Studies offers majors in Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education, Secondary Education, Special Education, and Education Studies. The Department also offers a minor in Education Studies.
Stonehill College is approved by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to endorse teacher candidates for licensure in the following areas: Early Childhood (PK-2), Elementary (1-6), Secondary Education (5-12, 8-12), and Moderate Disabilities (PK-8).
Departmental Mission
The Department of Education Studies’ mission is to prepare students to become knowledgeable, skillful, and caring educators of the highest caliber.
The Department of Education Studies is committed to principles of personal development, democracy, inclusion, and the creation of a just and compassionate world. Together, we explore developmentally appropriate practice, methodology, and technology while constantly emphasizing education for civic engagement, self-awareness, and humanism.
Teacher Preparation Program Mission
Teacher preparation in the 21st century involves a marriage between knowledge of content and pedagogical knowledge and skills. Language arts, mathematics, social studies, science, fine arts, and foreign language make up the content of the PK-12 school curriculum. All Stonehill College teacher candidates take liberal arts courses to acquire the content knowledge necessary to teach students in today’s schools. This, combined with education coursework, pre-practicum, and practicum experiences, enables students to develop the knowledge and skills to teach the diverse population of students with schools. Stonehill College teacher candidates become reflective practitioners who apply educational theory to instructional practice in various classrooms, schools, and communities
Vision
The Stonehill College Department of Education Studies aims to enhance individuals’ development while producing graduates who aspire to excellence for themselves, their peers, schools, communities, and the education profession.
Program Goals and Objectives
Stonehill students majoring in Education will meet the following goals and objectives:
Goal 1: Education majors will demonstrate oral and written communication skills necessary to be effective in their professional practice.
Objectives:
- Students will communicate effectively to a wide range of audiences using oral explanation and a variety of symbol systems, including visual display.
- Students will communicate effectively in writing with a wide range of audiences using language and format appropriate to the purpose.
- Students will communicate effectively with diverse learners.
- Students will demonstrate ethical, culturally proficient, and collaborative communication practices.
- Students will provide learners and/or families with effective, constructive feedback.
Goal 2: Education majors will demonstrate the professional disposition necessary to be effective in their professional practice.
Objectives:
- Students will demonstrate an active and open stance to professional learning.
- Students will engage respectfully in discussions about students, families, school professionals, and communities
- Students will engage professionally with school/organization personnel in field placements, pre-practica, internships, and practica
- Students will collaborate effectively with colleagues and education professionals
- Students will show improvement in their practice based on targeted feedback and personal reflection
Goal 3: Education majors have the content knowledge necessary to be effective in their professional practice.
Objectives:
- Students will demonstrate fluent knowledge of relevant curriculum content
- Students will apply principles of child and adolescent development to the design of developmentally appropriate materials and experiences.
- Students will design and teach coherent lessons on a clearly defined topic, appropriately anchored in a sequence that shows breadth and depth of content knowledge.
Goal 4: Education majors demonstrate the pedagogical skills necessary to be effective in their professional practice.
Objectives:
- Students will use effective practices to develop safe, healthy classroom communities that foster student engagement and learning.
- Students will write meaningful learning objectives
- Students will design and administer assessments that monitor student learning, provide purposeful feedback on progress, and furnish evidence to inform instruction.
- Students will manage attention, momentum, routines, space, time, and discipline to ensure effective operation in the learning environment.
- Students will design and teach lessons that skillfully integrate pedagogical techniques, including content-specific pedagogy, to promote the learning of all students.
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