Division of School Education
This division consists of the four courses of Psychology and Education,
Science of Teaching and Learning , Education for Children with Disabilities,
and Early Childhood Education. For each course, students can obtain
a Type I or Type II Teaching Credential according to the course's
designation, when they earn the necessary units of credit to finish
the course.
The ideal teacher we try to foster through this program shall
combine sophistication in the sense of human rights, cross-cultural
understanding, awareness of environmental issues, and accommodation
to an information-based society, with other abilities described
below.
- Ability to understand children:
A teacher who can comprehend a child's development and education
process over the long term, and who has insightful eyes to see
through each child's inner face and potential.
- Specialistic character:
A teacher who has a specialty area such as a specific stage of
the school education, or a specific subject to teach, a specific
issue (school administration, integral education, coordination
between kindergartens and elementary schools, etc.).
- Practical capacity:
A teacher who has practical ability to plan and materialize activity
in and out the classroom, and to evaluate the outcome of the exercises
to utilize in the next educational activity.
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