Welcome to the School of Teaching and Learning!
With nearly 1400 students and 35 faculty, the School of Teaching and Learning at the University of Florida is committed to making a difference in preK-20 classrooms through innovative, evidence-based approaches to the preparation and professional development of exemplary teachers, educational researchers, and teacher educators. As teachers and scholars, the faculty generate, apply, and disseminate knowledge about teaching and learning through extramural funding approaching $6 million since 2006. They also collaborate with colleagues in the profession who are attempting to solve intractable problems in education, such as transforming practices in high poverty schools and meeting critical teacher shortages. The School offers nationally ranked initial teacher education programs in Unified Elementary Education, Unified Early Childhood Education, and Secondary Education. These rigorous programs, two of which are taught in collaboration with the Department of Special Education, consist of five years of intensive work in the arts and sciences, and professional education culminating in the Master of Education degree and state certification as a classroom teacher.
Additionally, The School leverages partnerships to advance its scholarship and education missions. In partnership with the College of Education’s Lastinger Center for Learning, an innovative, job-embedded Master's Degree program focuses on developing Master Teachers. The program is delivered onsite and free of charge to teachers in Lastinger partner schools throughout Florida. Further, recent collaborations with UF colleagues in the sciences resulted in unprecedented initiatives such as Science for Life, funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and UFTeach, sponsored by ExxonMobil.
The School with over 40 funded graduate assistants, offers baccalaureate, master’s, specialist, and doctoral degrees in specializations of Curriculum and Instruction, Teaching and Teacher Education; Early Childhood Education; Educational Technology; Elementary Education; English Education; ESOL/Bilingual Education; Language, Literacy and Culture; Mathematics Education; Reading Education; Science and Environmental Education, Social Foundations, and Social Studies Education.
NEWS FLASH:
Please see the STL Financial Aid page for information about the new federal TEACH grants.
GREAT NEWS!!
Dr. Thomas Dana, the STL Director, will serve the College of Education in a new way. Effective July1, 2008, Dr. Dana will be the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the College of Education. Thank you for your service Dr. Dana and best wishes in your new position.
Dr. Elizabeth Bondy, Professor, will serve the School of Teaching & Learning as our new Director! Dr. Bondy, we are thrilled that you will be leading us! Welcome to this new role!
Dr. Sevan Terzian has been named a 2007-2008 University-wide Teacher of the Year!
Ms. Emily Peterek has been named a 2007-2008 University-wide Graduate Teacher Award winner!
Dr. Dorene Ross has been named one of the Irving and Rose Fien Professors for 2008 – 2011.
Mrs. Jennifer Drake Patrick has received a prestigious, highly competitive Adolescent Literacy Predoctoral Fellowship from the National Academy of Education for her dissertation proposal titled “Secondary Science Teachers Learning to Teach Science as Specialized Discourse.”
Ms. Ji Young Kim won the Marilyn Little Scholarship, a university-wide scholarship awarded to female international students.
Check out the other exciting things happening with faculty and students in our Points of Pride page!
