NWC Teacher Education Program

The Teacher Education Program at Northwestern College commits itself to a Christ-centered development of teachers called to serve Christ and society in diverse classroom settings. Central to the model for the program is the theme “Teacher as Servant.” The theme fits within Northwestern’s Vision for Learning (2007), whereby “students, staff and faculty take up the task of loving, understanding and serving the world whose Savior and Lord is Jesus Christ.”

The model has also been designed to reflect current research and practice within the field of education. Towards this end, we have utilized the Iowa State approved InTASC standards to provide focus for the professional program. The four domains:

¨ Content Knowledge

¨ Instructional Practice

¨ Learner and Learning

¨ Professional Responsibility

provide an overarching framework for the types of knowledge and skills we expect our teacher candidates to develop.