Objectives

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.