In December 2020, CCU's Undergraduate School of Education, in partnership with Best in The World Teachers, was awarded the Daniels Fund Grant. This grant is offered through the Daniels Fund and has been enabling the School of Education to better prepare our teacher candidates for work in the education sector. The School of Education has also received the prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Planning Grant to address the critical need for recruiting, preparing, and retaining highly effective elementary and secondary mathematics and science teachers.
The CCU School of Education, in collaboration with Best in the World Teachers, is working on a reform model for teacher preparation. The School of Education has piloted the implementation of a Community Learning and Intervention Center, to aid teacher candidates and young students in need of academic assistance. Specific features of the Daniels Fund Grant include conducting professional development in partner schools, applying a formal critical thinking model for teacher candidates, developing a clinical practice model (K-12 students on campus and blended learning) in math and literacy methods courses, implementing a coaching model for recent School of Education graduates in their initial teaching position, establishing a K-12 community learning and intervention center, and finally, showing proof of concept through assessment and a research agenda.
For more detailed information on the School of Education's progress throughout the grant, please review the documents below:
A K-12 community and intervention center for students on the Front Range with educational needs.
A classical education approach and critical thinking model for CCU teacher candidates.
Providing professional development support and a network for CCU alums, students, and local Colorado teachers.
Creating course-based clinical models that allow teacher candidates to work with students before their field experience.
