Bayh College of Education
Mission Statement
To prepare, promote, and advance educational and human service professionals for a diverse and ever-changing world.
COE Values
- Honesty - We have integrity and are trustworthy, ethical, and fair.
- Collegiality - We enjoy being a collaborative team in a positive environment that communicates well and works together for the greater good of all.
- Caring for Others - We are compassionate and supportive of others.
- Responsibility - We are dedicated, dependable, and hard working.
- Student Success - We bring to bear scholarship, professionalism, respect, and high expectations for all students.
- Openness to Change - We prize creativity and support continual improvement.
- Social Justice and Diversity - We work to create environments that support and enable all members of our community to thrive.
Conceptual Framework
Becoming a Complete Professional
The overarching theme of Indiana State University’s educator preparation programs is “Becoming a Complete Professional.” Initially adopted in 1991, today our theme encompasses three broad areas that recognize essential areas of the work of an educator:
- Educator as Expert or Mediator of Learning,
- Educator as Person, and
- Educator as Member of Communities.
The word complete in the title acknowledges that, to be truly successful, an educator must be effective in all three of these areas. Similarly, the word becoming is included in the title because new graduates, alumni, and our faculty are never fully finished with their learning in their profession as a teacher, counselor, school psychologist, speech language pathologist, principal, or superintendent.
The component “Educator as Expert or Mediator of Learning” deals with an educator’s professional skill as a mediator of students’ learning and/or of the progress individuals make in achieving their potential. The component “Educator as Person” represents the traits and dispositions that make a successful educator justifiably respected and emulated by students. The component “Educator as Member of Communities” reflects the necessity of contributing to the various communities of which educators, as professionals, are members. To be proficient, an educator cannot simply be skillful as a mediator of learning or simply be respected and emulated by students or simply be a contributing member of relevant communities. Instead, a truly successful educator must at the same time be a competent expert or mediator of learning, a person committed to social justice and viewed as worthy of respect and even emulation by students, and a contributing member of the communities in which educators are expected to function.