Middle & Secondary Education Department

        The Department of Middle and Secondary Education provides prospective teacher candidates with essential professional education courses as well as carefully planned experiences in public schools to enable them to successfully enter the world of professional educators in our public schools.  In addition, it helps prospective teachers become informed concerning the general background discipline, including such studies as historical, philosophical, methodological, and social foundations of education.  These studies affect the teachers' success in meeting the educational needs of their students and in assisting them in solving the problems of leading a worthwhile life in our contemporary society.  The Department of Middle and  Secondary Education is also responsible for all certification programs in Middle and Secondary Education.  

  

        

         Is teaching for you?  Interest in teaching is the first step, and if you are well suited for such a career you can look forward to an exciting and challenging life.  The importance of education to the welfare of our country is clearly understood and sensed by the general public with the additional knowledge that good teachers are vital to the progress as well as the safety of our nation.  In order to add strength to our nation and survive threats to our way of life, an increasing number of young people must become teachers.  It might be the profession and career for you.