Guided by a profound belief in active, collaborative, experiential, reflective, and transformative learning as well as a deep commitment to diversity and educational technology, this degree program is based on an innovative, inquiry-oriented, standards-driven, and field-based curriculum that integrates content and pedagogy and employs an electronic portfolio-based assessment system to evaluate students? progress toward achieving professional standards.? In addition, HPU provides teachers with cutting edge, course web page technology tools and access to online periodical databases in education.