Ouachita ranked in top 25 percent of undergraduate programs preparing high school teachers
November 20, 2017
- Sarah DavisOuachita Baptist University has been ranked in the top 25 percent in the National
Council on Teacher Quality’s latest ratings for undergraduate programs that prepare
high school teachers.
The nationwide study named Ouachita in the top one-fourth of the 717 programs ranked
nationwide based on the program admission standards, subject-area preparation, requirements
for courses on instructional methods, guidance on how to manage a classroom and the
high quality of practice opportunities.
"What a pleasure it is to work every day with the high quality faculty and students
in Ouachita's teacher education program,” said Dr. Jeff Root, dean of Ouachita’s Huckabee
School of Education. “Ranking systems cannot appropriately measure everything a campus
community has to offer, but it's definitely an honor for the teacher education program
to be so highly rated and ranked by the NCTQ,”
“I have great confidence that our education majors will be outstanding teachers upon
graduation,” he added. “It's a well-designed system led by experienced and capable
faculty members in the education department and in each of the subject matter areas."
At Ouachita, students combine on-campus instruction with the valuable experience of
observing teachers in the Arkadelphia school district before student teaching with
one of many partner districts.
“At a time when fewer than half of the nation’s teacher prep programs successfully
show future teachers both what to teach and how to teach it, it’s great to see programs
like Ouachita proving that there is a better way,” said Kate Walsh, president of NCTQ.
“Programs in our top 25 percent understand that their most important job is to deliver
well prepared teachers to classrooms by paying a lot of attention to the nuts and
bolts of what it takes to become effective.”
To read the NCTQ’s full Landscapes in Teacher Prep report, visit https://nctq.org/dmsView/US_2017_Landscape. For more information about Ouachita’s teacher education program, contact Dr. Jeff
Root at [email protected] or (870) 245-5510.
By Sarah Davis
November 20, 2017
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