Mission and Vision
Our mission is to ensure that students and practitioners engage in rigorous and personally meaningful experiences that cultivate creative and critical understandings related to the processes of teaching and learning. We are committed to providing philosophical, theoretical, technological and instructional frameworks to promote exemplary inclusive practice, scholarly inquiry and social justice advocacy across diverse educational contexts.
We further define this by excellence, equity, engagement, and entrepreneurialism through:
- Engaging instruction which promotes life-long learning.
- Developing and nurturing an inclusive community that reflects and affirms diversity.
- Cultivating instructors and students who are active researchers and scholars enhancing personal knowledge and professionalism as well as contributing to collective pedagogic knowledge.
- Promoting dynamic, collaborative learning communities in both Arcadia University and partner institutions.
- Creating opportunities to explore the unknown, critique the known and contemplate as well as generate novel ideas and innovative concepts.
- Establishing an entrepreneurial spirit to provide wide-ranging services to organizations, institutions, and community groups locally and globally.
Our vision is to be leaders in preparing individuals and communities in creating inclusive educational environments that facilitate learning to meet the challenges and opportunities within an ever-changing, global society.
More about Teacher Certification
To become an educator in Pennsylvania and earn your teaching credential, you need to complete a teacher preparation program with an approved provider. Arcadia University School of Education is an approved provider of educational programs leading to Pennsylvania Department of Education Professional Certification and offers certification at the undergraduate and post baccalaureate (graduate) levels. Arcadia University has not determined if our curriculum meets the requirements for teacher certification in other states or US territories.
