The College of Education at Florida International University is one in which candidates, faculty, and staff embrace the shared experiences of a diverse, international, professional-learning community. The College, therefore, strives to facilitate diverse learning environments where knowledge becomes the means to foster goal attainment for all those involved in the learning process. This process necessitates the highest ethical standards, while emphasizing inquiry as the means-ends connection to enhancing reflective intelligence in a changing social, political, cultural and technological world.
The College of Education is charged to prepare professionals who have the knowledge, abilities, and dispositions to facilitate and enhance learning and development within diverse settings. Consequently, the college promotes and facilitates the discovery, development, documentation, assessment, and dissemination of knowledge related to teaching and learning by developing professional partnerships in the larger community that foster significant educational, social, economic and political change. Our mission supports:
- Programs that reflect curricula that reflect sound theory and best practice.
- Highly qualified and diverse students and graduates.
- Highly qualified and diverse faculty active in teaching, research and service.
- Effective and ethical governance and organizational structure within an environment of open communication among faculty, administrators, staff, students and community.
- Collaborative and mutually beneficial partnerships with schools and other organizations.
- Visibility and impact at local, state, national and international levels.
- Continuous improvement of the College.
The College offers instructional programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels, engages in research and program development activities, and provides field services to the educational community. The conceptual framework guiding education curricula and programs in the College is grounded in three core outcomes central to the vision faculty have of professional educators graduating from the College’s programs: Stewards of the discipline, reflective inquirers, and mindful educators
The College, housed in the Sanford and Dolores Ziff Education Building (ZEB) at Florida International University—University Park, is fully accredited by the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education, the Florida Department of Education, and the State University System.
To support its mission, the College is organized into three separate but related departments:
- Curriculum and Instruction
- Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
- Educational and Psychological Studies
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