Education Departments

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Education Departments

The Deborah Cannon Partridge Wolfe College of Education

Your teaching career starts at the Deborah Cannon Partridge Wolfe College of Education at Â鶹´«Ã½.

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Counselor Education

Our CACREP-accredited programs train culturally competent, caring counselors who serve a diverse, multilingual urban community.

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Educational Technology

Our graduates have gone on to become master teachers, school library media specialists, published researchers and authors, corporate trainers, school leaders, and professional developers.

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Multicultural Leadership

The Department of Multicultural Leadership aims to prepare reflective, caring, and highly skilled educational practitioners to lead urban schools in their chosen professions, to expand educational theory and practice in urban settings through research, and to work in partnership with constituents to effect change in educational practice in urban schools.

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New Pathways to Teaching: Alternate Route

The NJCU New Pathways Alternate Route program is a unique, completely online program for people with a bachelor's degree to become a certified teacher in Â鶹´«Ã½.

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Secondary Education

Our courses focus on the socio-historical and theoretical foundations of education, educational psychology, content-specific and multidisciplinary methods, and differentiated instruction for today's diverse classroom.

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Special Education

Graduates of the Special Education Department become capable teachers who believe in the transformative power of an outstanding education.

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Teaching, Learning, and Literacy

The Department of Teaching, Learning, and Literacy prepares reflective, skilled, and equity-based educators at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. We also prepare literacy specialists for careers in teaching, coaching, training, coordinating instructional programs, diagnosing and treating literacy problems, and developing curriculum.

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The Deborah Cannon Partridge Wolfe College of Education

The College of Education is dedicated to the belief that education is transformative and empowering and that social justice can best be accomplished through an educated citizenry.