- All Teachers College education programs are fully accredited by the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE), the North Central Association, and the Indiana Professional Standards Board. In addition, 23 programs have received national recognition through their respective professional associations.
- Ball State Teachers College is in the top 25 in the nation for number of nationally recognized educator preparation programs it offers.
- Ball State was one of four universities in Indiana selected by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation to pilot a program to help overhaul teacher education and encourage exceptional science and math teacher candidates to seek long-term careers in high-need classrooms. This program is now expanding beyond Indiana’s borders.
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Ball State is the only university in Indiana authorizing charter schools, helping to provide more choices in public education.
- Our graduates have a nearly 100 percent pass rate on the Praxis exams required for initial teacher licensure in Indiana.
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Teachers College received a second-place Exemplary Culturally Responsive Teacher Preparation award from the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) and the Southern Poverty Law Center in 2012. The award recognized the immersive learning program Schools Within the Context of Community.
Programs
- The Department of Special Education has the only deaf education teacher-training program in Indiana. Students complete a one-year residency at the Indiana School for the Deaf in Indianapolis.
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U.S. News & World Report ranked Teachers College's graduate programs 84th in 2012.
- Our educational leadership programs were ranked 17th in the nation by Leadership Excellence magazine. The programs have been ranked since 2005.
- In U.S. News & World Report's 2012 Top Online Education Programs rankings, online graduate programs in education (teacher and administrator preparation) were ranked 17th in student services and technology.
Technology
- Ball State was one of the first schools in the nation to require laptops for enrolling teacher education majors.
- Starting in their freshman classes, Ball State's education students are exposed to advanced instructional technology—including assembling an electronic portfolio—to prepare them for the 21st-century classroom.
- Ball State's Professional Education Unit recently received NCATE's highest rating for its Unit Assessment System, which uses rGrade to support the assessment of candidates and manage the evidence of their learning in all educator preparation programs on campus.
- Teachers College is the home of Ball State's first technology spin-off company, rGrade. As an ongoing research and development effort within Teachers College, rGrade has generated more than $1.5 million in grants for research and outreach programs that address assessment of student learning.
- Teachers College's technologies have been featured on Apple's website, at the University of Cincinnati's Vision 2020 Conference, and in the Consortium for the Application of Technology and Learning Innovations in Schools of Education (CATALISE).
Faculty Research and Publications
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The Teacher Educator , a Teachers College publication, is the official journal of the Indiana Association of Teacher Educators. It’s been in publication since 1965.
- The Department of Counseling Psychology and Guidance Services was ranked eighth out of 67 counseling psychology programs in the number of published articles appearing from 1984 to 2009 in The Counseling Psychologist, one of the top two journals in the profession of counseling.
Schools
- Burris Laboratory School, which serves Ball State's teaching majors, was listed among the nation's best high schools since 2007 in "America's Best High Schools" analyses by U.S. News & World Report.
- Burris Laboratory School and the Indiana Academy for Science, Mathematics, and Humanities were listed in the top 6 percent of public high schools in the country in a 2010 Newsweek analysis. The academy is Indiana's only public residential high school for gifted and talented students.