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COE faculty composition reflects a response to change in diversity of faculty backgrounds and level of experience. Faculty members recognize the importance of directing and responding to change. They engage in cutting-edge research. As such, they are able to relay state-of-the-art information to their students. Consequently, graduates from COE programs arrive in classrooms armed with a variety of instructional techniques and pedagogical strategies that they can use to enhance student achievement. COE faculty model for candidates the collection and use of assessment information to track student achievement. Faculty base decisions about programs and educational practices on sound data. They model gathering dependable evidence and how to involve students in the assessment process. They assist candidates in the acquisition of the professional abilities valued at UNLV. COE faculty implement individual visions through collaborative planning creating an irresistible momentum that is achieved through mutual trust and respect.
COE teacher education programs change as both the educational environments change and as the content knowledge, instructional techniques, technology, and pedagogy change due to research-based advances in each discipline. Faculty are proactive, they make decisions based on data as soon as they are able to rather than allowing the opportunity for change to pass them by and leave them in a situation where changes are long overdue. They work to establish settings in which what teacher candidates and practicing teachers know and believe about teaching proves the framework for new ideas and extending learning, as well as increasing knowledge of ways to support learning in cognitive, social, physical and emotional domains.