COLLEGE OF EDUCATION AT A GLANCE
100% Employment rate for graduates in the Class of 2016
In NGU’s early childhood education and elementary educa- tion programs, for example, teacher candidates conclude their studies by completing a year-long student teaching experience. In the first semester of their senior year, they do pre-student teaching with two full days per week in the schools, followed by full-time student teaching in the same classroom the next semester.
“Many colleges and universities offer the year-long teach- ing experience, but it is usually a five-year program,” says Dr. Jill Branyon, coordinator of the mathematics second- ary education program at NGU. “Our teacher candidates experience all of this in-depth experience in a four-year program.”
Other practical opportunities available to NGU’s education majors include mock interviews with real principals and school district staff and mock parent-teacher conferences with members of the Greenville community. In addition, NGU’s COE professors — who boast an average of 30 years of experience each — assist education majors after they graduate in networking and job searching.
In September 2016, in fact, the COE announced that its Class of 2016 graduates across all programs had reached 100 percent job placement. For Branyon, who says place- ment is generally high, this is the first time that’s happened since she joined the NGU family more than 14 years ago.
“For the COE, I think [the numbers say] that we stay with our candidates until they are employed,” she says. “We want our graduates to make a significant difference in schools in South Carolina and beyond.”
At these schools, where classrooms are quickly “moving to one-to-one, paperless settings,” NGU alumni walk in “pre- pared and confident,” assures Burman.
For more information about NGU’s College of Education, visit
ngu.edu/coe.
ngu.edu | 11 400+ Years of combined teaching experience among faculty
330 Current students in the college 68 Master’s degrees earned by
alumni from 2006 to 2016 30+ Teacher of the year awards earned by alumni
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