Educator Preparation

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s School of Education, Health and Human Behavior (SEHHB) along with The Madison County Career and Technical Education System provided a free conference to local high school students who are interested in the teaching profession.

SIUE welcomed more than 100 high school students from Bethalto, Collinsville, Edwardsville, Highland and Triad high schools, for the Future Teacher Conference held Wednesday, Sept. 28 on the Edwardsville campus.

“The F...

To better prepare future educators in fostering inclusive classroom environments, the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) passed the Culturally Responsive Teaching and Leading (CRTL) Standards in February. The Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Education, Health and Human Behavior (SEHHB) has played a pivotal role in the development of the new standards, and will serve as the pilot program.

By providing a framework of how to better engage and connect with students from dif...

The Illinois Education Research Council (IERC) at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and the Illinois Board of Higher Education (IBHE) have published the policy brief, Advancing the Illinois Early Childhood Education Workforce: A Model College and Career Pathway. 

The brief proposes and describes a pathway model to help the early childhood workforce ensure that young children thrive and reach their potential at each stage in their development. Reaching this goal will help build on t...

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville is partnering with the St. Clair and Madison County Regional Offices of Education (ROE) to introduce a Dual Credit Educators Preparation Program (DCEPP). The goal is to grow the number of dual credit-qualified teachers in Illinois by providing resources to support their ability to take the requisite graduate-level coursework. Helping teachers become qualified to teach dual credit courses then helps students have access to more college level course work d...

The Illinois Education Research Council (IERC) at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville has collaborated with the Illinois Board of Higher Education (IBHE) to publish Voices from the Field:  Collaborative Innovations in Early Childhood Educator Preparation. The book was introduced Thursday, Jan. 26 at an event at Roosevelt University in Chicago to celebrate the early childhood authors, publishers and editors. 

The book highlights the accomplished work of many of Illinois’ tw...

High quality early childhood education is vital for students to achieve later success in school, but finding qualified teachers has been a constant struggle for early education centers and pre-kindergarten classrooms throughout the nation.

A report released today from the Illinois Education Research Council (IERC) at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville describes how Illinois colleges are working together to overcome this challenge. Their efforts are part of the Educator Preparation Progra...

The Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Education, Health and Human Behavior (SEHHB) has achieved accreditation through 2022 under the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) standards.

Twenty teacher, administrator and school personnel preparation programs within the SEHHB and the SIUE College of Arts and Sciences were nationally recognized by their specialized professional associations. NCATE’s performance-based accreditation system for teacher pr...