The EAP community,
while committed to fulfilling traditional academic roles,
endeavors to develop expanded roles consistent with our vision.
We are committed to integrating our teaching, scholarship
and service.
Teaching
- To offer exemplary programs
- To prepare leaders to work with children,
families, schools, communities and their agencies
- To develop students who can meet the needs
of a contemporary, democratic, and diverse society.
Scholarship
- To produce scholarship which has relevance to academics,
practitioners, families and students
- To value the multiple forms of scholarship
Service
- To improve the outcomes for children, families, schools,
and communities and their agencies through professional
service.
The EAP community endeavors
to prepare caring, competent and transformative practitioners.
Knowledge, skills, and dispositions will be infused to promote
the highest quality teacher education and allied professions'
programs, professional development opportunities and exemplary
graduate degree programs.
A caring, competent, and transformative
practitioner is one who prepares candidates for their responsibilities
in a democracy. A caring practitioner is one who understands
the perspective of others by demonstrating kindness, compassion,
and respect. A competent practitioner is knowledgeable within
the content area(s) in which he/she works. A transformative
practitioner is one who is engaged in critical reflection
on present practices informed by theoretical knowledge.
A person completing Miami's programs in
the School of Education and Allied Professions should be one
who:
a. Is well-grounded in general studies
and content knowledge
b. Appreciates and understands diverse
learners, mentors, peers, and learning processes
c. Demonstrates sensitivities to learning
contexts and environments
d. Demonstrates planning, implementation,
and evaluation by utilizing varied strategies
e. Demonstrates professional commitments
and dispositions.
The
EAP community is committed to integrating our teaching, scholarship
and service. Teaching provides students' with the knowledge
and skills necessary to meet the needs of a contemporary,
democratic and diverse society. Faculty and students engage
in muliple forms of scholarship that has relevance to academics,
practitioner, families and students. Faculty and students
involve themselves in service that improves the outcomes for
children, families, schools, and communities.
Our students are our first priority.
- We are stewards of our public responsibility for human
development, working collaboratively with our students,
schools, families, and community, health and social service
agencies to create knowledge and strategies to improve our
complex global society.
- We are a collegial community of learners, committed to
the goals of Miami University, specifically focused on the
development of leaders for education, families, health and
social service agencies and local communities.
- We strive to be exemplars of practices that are democratic,
nurturing, moral, ethical and respectful.
- We are responsive to our past and responsible for our
collective future
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