The Educator Preparation Program consists of the McKay School of Education and seven additional BYU colleges comprising 26 departments, which collaborate to prepare undergraduate secondary teaching majors or minors.
The EPP is BYU’s accreditation unit for teacher preparation. BYU graduates approximately 800 teachers each year through the EPP. EPP students attend the following colleges: Fine Arts and Communications, Biology and Agriculture, Physical and Mathematical Sciences, College of Life Sciences, Humanities, Family, Home, and Social Sciences, Engineering and Technology, and the McKay School of Education.
The McKay School of Education leads out and coordinates this collaboration. Additional collaboration within the EPP comes from the BYU-Public School Partnership districts of Jordan, Alpine, Nebo, Provo, and Wasatch.
The EPP exists to align content and assessment across the broad spectrum of BYU programs preparing teachers, ensuring that each student who graduates from BYU as a teacher will have the knowledge and skills needed to effectively instruct their students. The EPP is also endeavoring to shift the philosophical approach of teacher education from teacher instruction to student.
Administration and oversight of the EPP is governed by the University Council for Teacher Education (UCOTE). This council is comprised of the BYU associate academic vice president for undergraduate studies, the dean of the McKay School of Education, and a representative from each participating college.
Support for the EPPThe EPP functions together with the Brigham Young University-Public School Partnership, which was formed in 1984 and is a collaborative effort between three entities: the five public school districts of Alpine, Jordan, Nebo, Provo and Wasatch, the McKay School of Education, and those colleges at BYU responsible for secondary teacher education. Under the direction of a governing board comprised of the superintendents of the five districts and the dean of the McKay School of Education, a variety of initiatives, programs, and other activities occur within the BYU-PSP in the areas of professional development, grants and funding, and research and publications. Established in 1996, the Center for the Improvement of Teacher Education and Schooling is the operational arm of the BYU-PSP, serving to facilitate the goals and objectives of the partnership. CITES resides in the David O. McKay School of Education and has as its central purpose the improvement of teacher education and schooling. Through its three divisions: Professional Development, Educational Support, and Education Research, the Center serves the needs of the three entities which comprise the BYU-Public School Partnership. |
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EPP: Educator Preparation Program consists of the McKay School of Education and eight other BYU colleges comprising 26 departments, which collaborate with the BYU-PSP to prepare undergraduate secondary teaching majors or minors.
BYU-PSP: The Brigham Young University-Public School Partnership, formed in 1984, is a collaborative effort between three entities: five public school districts (Alpine, Jordan, Nebo, Provo, and Wasatch), the McKay School of Education, and those colleges at BYU responsible for secondary teacher education. Under the direction of a governing board comprised of the superintendents of the five districts and the dean of the McKay School of Education, a variety of initiatives, programs, and other activities occur within the BYU-PSP in the areas of professional development, grants and funding, and research and publications.
CITES: Established in 1996, the Center for the Improvement of Teacher Education and Schooling is the operational arm of the BYU-PSP, serving to facilitate the goals and objectives of the partnership. CITES resides in the David O. McKay School of Education and has as its central purpose the improvement of teacher education and schooling. Through its three divisions: Professional Development, Educational Support, and Education Research, the Center serves the needs of the three entities which comprise the BYU-Public School Partnership.