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Responses to Changes in Education
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 Public education in California currently is receiving tremendous
media attention. The class-size reductions occurring in the primary
grades throughout the state have generated a corresponding need
to provide well-qualified teachers immediately. The School of
Education here at CSU, Chico has been responding positively and
quickly to this challenge.
Recruitment of potential teacher candidates has been intensified.
Well-qualified undergraduates continue to be encouraged to seek
teaching as a career. In addition, more re-entry students are
committing to career changes that will place them in classrooms.
Many of these nontraditional students are women who postponed
their professional preparation years ago to rear their children
and now are taking advantage of the opportunity to pursue a cherished
dream. Other teacher candidates are interested in exchanging unsatisfying
or completed careers for the rewards of working with young people.
The Special Education component in the Department of Professional
Studies in Education has developed a prototype program for individuals
interested in working with a variety of special-needs children.
Their three-semester Concurrent Teacher Specialist Program accelerates
the process of completing the requirements for both a CLAD Multiple
Subject Credential and a preliminary Learning Handicapped Credential
and Resource Specialist Credential.
The Department of Education is making a FLEX Program available
to those individuals who are committed to teaching but are not
able to participate in the traditional full-day, full-year professional
preparation program. The FLEX Program is designed to permit students
to complete requirements for a Preliminary Credential over a five-year
time period. For the person who is currently employed or has other
daytime commitments that preclude full-time enrollment, this program
may provide the entrance to teaching that otherwise would not
be possible.
As the needs of California's public schools have increased, the
School of Education at CSU, Chico has responded. Always in the
forefront of teacher education, Chico continues its tradition
of providing the very best possible professional educators for
the children of this state.
Carolynn Reynolds, Associate Dean
College of Communication and Education
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