Miami University

Education, Health and Society (EHS): Mission Statement

The EHS 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 EHS 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, Health and Society should be one who:

• Is well-grounded in general studies and content knowledge
• Appreciates and understands diverse learners, mentors, peers, and learning processes
• Demonstrates sensitivities to learning contexts and environments
• Demonstrates planning, implementation, and evaluation by utilizing varied strategies
• Demonstrates professional commitments and dispositions.

The EHS 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.

 

School of Education, Health and Society: Vision Statement

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