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Departments:
Other Certification
Areas:
Environmental Education
Music
Education
Principalship
School Nurse
College of Education
Initiatives
Other Links:
SRU's
College of Education is an
accredited institution
For more information on our assessment program,
visit Assessment at SRU.
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The mission of our
college is to prepare educators and related professionals for the
Commonwealth's schools and counseling facilities. Within this
context, teaching, scholarship and service are viewed as a triad,
in which teaching is enlightened by scholarship and applied through
service.
For further information
contact:
College of Education
105 McKay Education Building
Slippery Rock University
Slippery Rock, PA 16057
Telephone: (724) 738-2007
Fax: (724) 738-2880
Office of the
Dean
| Dr. Merhaut, Special Education |
Dr. Balach, Elementary/Early Childhood |
Graduate students in Dr. Merhaut's course titled,
Lifelong Learning for Persons with Disabilities,
submitted a grant proposal and received $100,000 in funding to
support the Pine-Richland Youth Center.
The Pine-Richland Youth Center is a non-profit,
volunteer-based association serving boys, girls, adults, families
and area youth associations in northern Allegheny and southern
Butler counties in western Pennsylvania for over 50 years.
This site may be used to assign field students from Slippery
Rock University within the Community Program for Americans with
Disabilities within the Special Education Department and the
Adapted Physical Activity Minor within the Exercise Science
Department.
For more information about this project,
click here.
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Dr. Balach received funding for a $1.4 million
grant to improve teacher quality.
This Title II Teacher Quality Enhancement Recruitment (TQE-R)
grant will result in systemic change in the recruitment,
retention, teacher education program, classroom practice of K-12
teachers, and induction of novice teachers in central western
Pennsylvania.
The grant period begins October 2005 and runs through September
2008. The grant will address seven broad goals that focus on
improved professional development activities.
For more information on the grant,
click here. |
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