The School through the Teacher Education Committee coordinates and supervises each of the teacher education components of the university. The School is responsible for administering and coordinating professional laboratory experiences and directed teaching for the University.

The School of Education and Psychology consists of the following departments:

• Department of Education and Psychology
• Department of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation

The School of Education and Psychology offers instruction leading to the Bachelor of Science with majors in the following fields:

• Elementary Education
• Special Education
• Health and Physical Education
• Recreation
• Psychology
• Interdisciplinary Studies

Graduate programs offered include:

• Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT)
• Master of Science in Elementary Education
• Guidance Education
• Special Education
• Health and Physical Education
• Specialist in Elementary Education

The primary objectives of the School of Education and Psychology are:

1. to identify and attract young men and women of intellectual and moral integrity,
2. to promote content competency and sound scholarship through a series of specialized courses and experiences that will prepare an Alcorn proficient and effective communiversity teacher (APECT);
3. to develop in prospective teachers a broad understanding of the learner and the teaching-learning process,
4. to guide and supervise teacher candidates through a series of professional laboratory experiences culminating with directed teaching,
5. to provide the teacher education student and non-teaching student with formal and informal educational experiences that will enable them to develop a meaningful philosophy of education, and
6. to ensure that the teacher education candidate exits the professional education unit as Alcorn's proficient and effective communiversity teacher.