The Monmouth University School of Education is a NCATE accredited school with a variety of undergraduate, graduate, endorsement, and certificate programs in New Jersey.
The School of Education's unifying vision is to prepare reflective educators for community-responsive education in a 21st-century global economy. This conceptualization is grounded in Dewey’s (1933) democratic pragmatism, whereby personal and professional beliefs, decisions, and actions become tested against social consequences that shape subsequent conceptions and practices. It requires thoughtful and skilled professionals to monitor, analyze, and modify their philosophies and practices in an ongoing process of reflection and action that effectively integrates both theory and practice in ways that remain responsive to individual and community learning needs.
Since its formation as the School of Education in 1995, the faculty has engaged in regular dialogue regarding its mission, vision, and conceptual foundations that guide all of the professional education credentials programs. The present framework reflects a strong consensus that has emerged since 2006 and provides a theoretical and conceptual map that orients our initial and advanced programs for training exemplary teachers, administrators, school counselors,
and other educational professionals.
The School of Education’s mission is to be a leader in the preparation of highly competent, reflective teachers, and other professional educators (e.g., administrators, counselors, and reading specialists) who have the knowledge, 21st-Century skills, and dispositions required to improve the teaching and learning of students in a highly pluralistic democratic society. Toward this end, our candidates are prepared to serve all students from diverse backgrounds in terms of abilities, age, culture, race, ethnicity, family, lifestyle, and socioeconomic status.
Through clinically based field experiences in a wide range of local school and community settings, our candidates practice and demonstrate the utilization of 21st-century skills in their work with students, teachers, and school leaders. Our goal is that candidates use their thorough knowledge of learners and learning to promote positive student outcomes and achievement. Our programs link theory and practice and are designed to instill a commitment to lifelong learning and reflection.
