Educator Preparation Program

David O McKay School of Education

Educator Preparation Program – EPP

To better prepare professional educators, the David O. McKay School of Education sustains a partnership with the public schools and with the colleges of the arts and sciences on the BYU campus

The Educator Preparation Program consists of the McKay School of Education and eight other 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 1,000 teachers each year through the EPP. EPP students attend the following colleges: Fine Arts and Communications, Biology and Agriculture, Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Health and Human Performance, 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-Publish School Partnership districts 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 classrooms. 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.

 

Endorsements Offered: Reading, Gifted and Talented, Special Education Initiative

Field Experiecnes Available: Local Schools, National Expereinces, International Placements, Full-year Internships