- The Rutgers University Graduate School of Education is dedicated to the study and improvement of education.
- The creation of knowledge about teaching and learning is central to our mission.
- Rutgers seeks to ensure that all children and adults have access to high quality educational programs.
- As such, their work addresses the cognitive, social, organizational, cultural, linguistic, developmental, and policy dimensions of education.
- Their instructional programs are designed to produce graduates who become effective educational practitioners, transformative educational leaders, and accomplished educational researchers.
- Their partnerships and service contributions focus on New Jersey but extend to both national and global communities.
- articulate their visions of themselves as teachers;
- identify and critique the assumptions that undergird their vision;
- become critically familiar with competing visions;
- develop instructional strategies that will help them enact their visions; and
- engage in the kind of reflective inquiry that is an essential characteristic of an effective teacher.
The program is designed to encourage students to: