Into the Classrooms of the Future

Quantity or Quality?
Cursory or Comprehensive?
Stagnant or State-of-the-art?

Allegheny College's Teaching Preparation Program takes an intensive, innovative approach that provides students with a competitive edge over those who graduate from institutions that follow the cookie-cutter approach to teaching certification. Allegheny combines a rigorous, individualized curriculum with hands-on teaching experiences, thereby producing future educators who are experts in their areas of study, role models in the classroom, and leaders in the field of education.

Allegheny's position at the forefront of teaching preparation programming has not gone unnoticed. Two institutions with the finest graduate education programs in the country, the University of Pittsburgh and Teachers College, Columbia University, have established exclusive arrangements to give special consideration to Allegheny graduates who apply for admission into their Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) programs.

What about you? Do you strive to maintain high standards in your academic and extracurricular endeavors? Do your interests range from politics to painting to plant physiology? Is your thinking state-of-the-art? If so, then you're the type of student who will thrive in Allegheny's Education Preparation Program.

"Allegheny College graduates have always had a strong reputation at the University of Pittsburgh, both in our graduate admissions and when research projects are looking for staff. For this reason, we were especially pleased to work out the articulation of the Allegheny College undergraduate degree with our graduate teacher preparation programs. We love getting such strong students."
- Alan Lesgold, Dean of the University of Pittsburgh School of Education

"Too many undergraduate colleges today offer their students weak teacher education programs, consisting of a mix of diluted liberal arts majors and truncated curricula in pedagogy, which ill prepares them to become teachers and serves poorly the children who will sit in their classrooms. Instead of the academically weaker approach historically used elsewhere, your institution has embraced depth and quality. In this manner, Allegheny College has shown itself to be an education leader whose example should be emulated by colleges across the country."
- Arthur Levine, President of the Columbia University Teachers College