Brevard College

EDU 205: 21st Teacher and Learner uses service learning to place you in a variety of educational settings, such as Schenck Job Corps, Rise and Shine Freedom Schools, Boys and Girls Club, and El Centro Homework Club to help you better understand and support the varied backgrounds and experiences of your future students.

Field Work gives you a glimpse of innovative school sites such as Expeditionary Learning Schools and Early College. Classes such as Education Psychology help you understand the theory behind effective classroom management. Observations in Special Education and Inclusion classes in our community schools show you how to differentiate instruction for your future students.

EDU 305: Facilitation of Instruction teaches lesson and unit planning

EDU 304: Teaching in the Digital Age allows you to be Google Certified and teaches you how to use technology to engage, instruct and assess future students.

EDU 303: Diverse and Exceptional Learners brings you in community with experts in autism and dyslexia, and with LGBTQ+ high school students and homeless students who speak of their educational needs.

In your student teaching, you will work side by side with faculty mentors in your content area and partnering school teachers, and advisors who walk the path with you from student to teacher with formative assessments, narrative feedback and plenty of opportunities to practice your skills and dispositions before your graduate.

In Brevard's Teacher Licensure Program, you will begin learning and teaching and applying your knowledge from your first class. In EDU 205: 21st Century Teacher and Learner, students study growth mindset theory and apply it through mentoring students in community schools and after-school programs.

In sophomore and junior classes, you will learn content knowledge, whether it be playing an instrument or designing science projects. At Brevard, you don't just study elementary science—you learn it by tracking Monarch butterflies. You don't just memorize reading comprehension theory—you apply it by working as a literacy tutor for struggling readers.

To prepare all teacher candidates to welcome a wide range of students into their future classrooms and to recognize the value that varied backgrounds and experiences bring to the learning environment, Brevard College's Teacher Education hosts an annual forum, featuring guest presenters and mini-workshops on a variety of teaching challenges and opportunities.

Topics include an "Understanding Friends" workshop on Autism, a presentation on Dyslexia and a workshop on teaching strategies for English learners, as well as guest panels of LGBTQ+ high school students and presentations by local community organizations on how to support our homeless students and those students living in poverty.

All teacher candidates learn to read and write individualized education plans (IEPs) for hypothetical students and spend time observing effective instructional practices and student support strategies in local classrooms with skilled teachers.

Brevard College is one of the smallest teacher education programs in the States and we consider this a good thing. Classes in the junior and senior levels are usually less than 10 students, so our teacher candidates can work closely with their college professors and local school teachers.

All education classes have required field experiences where teacher candidates have opportunities to teach and receive feedback from partnering master teachers and administrators in our local public schools.

Brevard College's Teacher Education Program has an Advisory Council of Teacher Education (ACTE) consisting of college licensure area coordinators and a rotating contingent of local in-service teachers, school administrators, retired community educators and school board members. This Advisory Council meets once a month to discuss assessment issues and policies in order to foster an environment of continual program commitment to excellence and access in education.