The Middlebury College Education Studies Program is looking for students who want to make a difference in the lives of young people in this country and other nations of the world. The existence of educational inequities is a constant reminder that there is critical work to be done to bring greater educational opportunity to more students. Good teachers are needed. The Education Studies program seeks students who are well-grounded in their content areas, possess strong communication skills, are willing and ready to motivate young people, have the independent research skills required of today's teachers, and who want to make a positive difference in the lives of young people.
The proportion of teaching candidates passing state-required assessments (performance and Praxis Exams) is 100 percent, which places Middlebury College Education Studies in the 1st Quartile ranking of Teacher Education Programs in Vermont.
The Middlebury College Education Studies Program has developed, changed, and matured over four decades. Hundreds of graduates have gone through the program and have entered teaching as well as other professions. The program has not deviated from its founding premise: exposure to a well-distributed program in the liberal arts, investigation of the social and psychological issues of education field-experience-rich courses in educational methods, and active teaching under the guidance of skilled cooperating teachers. All this combines to provide students with a broad foundation in education and to produce outstanding teachers.
As we continue to prepare future teachers, we have chosen the following theme as our framework:
Teaching and Learning in the Liberal Arts: Constructing Meaningful Connections
The Education Studies Program is grounded in and grows out of the strength and excellence of the Middlebury College liberal arts curriculum. The College's aim has been to educate students in the liberal arts tradition who can bring their learning to bear on practical and significant real-world problems and concerns. In gaining a well-balanced liberal arts education, the Middlebury student majors in a recognized field of inquiry and undertakes a minor in teacher education which provides a cross-disciplinary focus on the teaching and learning process. Taken together with distribution requirements in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and mathematics, and foreign languages and cultures, the course work in the major and the teacher education minor provide prospective teachers with the analytical framework and content knowledge pivotal to engaging in reflective instruction in the practicum and in their first years of teaching.
Having said all of the above, we now invite you to browse our website and find out more about our program. We hope you find it interesting and informative. If you do not find what you are looking for or you already have a graduate degree and wish to take continuing education courses, please explore the resources listed below.
Other Teacher Education Programs in Vermont
Bennington College www.bennington.edu
Castleton State College www.castleton.edu
Champlain College www.champlain.edu
College of St. Joseph www.saintjoe.edu
Goddard College www.goddard.edu
Green Mountain College www.greenmtn.edu
Johnson State College www.jsc.edu
Lyndon State College www.lsc.vsc.edu
Norwich University www.norwich.edu
St. Michael's College www.smcvt.edu
School of International Training www.sit.edu
Union Institute & University/Vermont College www.tui.edu
University of Vermont www.uvm.edu