Education
"Being in the schools early provides confirmation to my students that they have chosen the right major."
Sharon Gieselmann, PhD
Associate Professor of Education
Education students at the University of Evansville learn to teach by spending a considerable amount of time in local schools, even before student teaching. As an education student, you will be in a K-12 classroom your very first semester with continuing field placements each year. Majoring in education at the University of Evansville prepares you to teach the right way—by doing it!
Here are five good reasons to major in education at the University of Evansville:
Beginning your first semester, you'll be in the schools gaining real teaching experience. In fact, by the time you graduate from UE you will have spent 1,000 hours in school classrooms.
You'll learn from faculty who have, on average, 17 years of teaching experience in elementary, middle and high schools. That compares to a national college and university faculty average of two to three years of in-school experience.
You'll be part of a program that has been educating teachers since 1871 and has had the prestigious National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) certification since the 1950s.
The education curriculum is rigorous, relevant and designed to apply to contemporary classrooms.
For more information contact:
Charles Watson, EdD
Chair, School of Education
E-mail: cw73@evansville.edu
education.evansville.edu
