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Aloha and Welcome to Chaminade's Education Division

Education Division News

  • Thank you to Kathleen M. Jaycox who provided the Education Division a gift of $50,000 in memory of Andrew J. Penn.The purpose of the gift is to provide operational funding for the Catholic School Leadership Program, which is a graduate-level program within Chaminade’s Education Division designed to ground current and future K-12 Catholic school administrators and teachers in a philosophy of education rooted in the Catholic tradition. Andrew J. Penn was a lifelong supporter of Catholic education.
  • Congratulations to Mary Pat Sjostrom and Margaret Mize for winning an award for their strong support of our students.
  • Best wishes to Elizabeth Park as she participates in a Montisorri program review in Korea.
  • Accolades go out to Erica Nelson for her recent Aulama publication "A Hectic Life"
  • The Chaminade University Education Club is active on facebook at the http://www.facebook.com/groups/cuhednclub/ address.
  • If you have other news related to the Education Division or our Division Team, please send it to the Education Dean. Mahalo.

Other Education News

  • The U.S. Department of Education released Our Future, Our Teachers which is the Obama Administration plan for Teacher Education Reform and Improvement and includes information on the TEACH grants and Presidental Fellows.
  • Hawaii DOE News

Our Mission

  • Our Education Team's mission is to foster the professional development of teachers and educational leaders through programs based in the liberal arts tradition, Catholic Marianist values, current research, and best practice. We promote the characteristics of Marianist universities which include:
    1. Education for Formation in Faith (Mana): In the community of learners, reason and personal faith are seen as mutually complementary roads to truth. All scholars are invited to join the larger community of faith, hope and love.
      • All children can learn
      • Diversity awareness includes sharing of personal beliefs and spirituality.
    2. Integral, Quality Education (Aloha): The Education Division is committed to an integral, quality education that begins with respect for the complexity and diversity of each person. Subsequently, faculty members attempt to engage the whole person with quality courses and activities that challenge the intellectual, emotional, aesthetic, physical, and ethical dimensions that make up each student's life experience.
      • Education is an active process
      • Teaching and learning are reciprocal processes
      • Diversity enriches education by providing many different cultural values and viewpoints
      • Varied instruction for individual differences and learning styles facilitates learning
      • Learning is facilitated by integrating curriculum, using cooperative learning strategies, having high expectations of the learner, and making curriculum relevant to the world outside of the classroom
      • Teachers are responsible for nurturing students’ desire to learn
    3. Education and the Family Spirit (Ohana): The community of learners is a second family which encourages the personal development of each of its members. Mutual respect for all members of the family allows the Marianist-based scholarly community to share responsibility for decision making at all levels.
      • Learning requires a safe, stimulating environment where each student is nurtured
      • School, community and family collaboration support learning
    4. Education for Service, Peace and Justice (Pono): All members of the community strive to serve both the University and the larger surrounding community. Additionally, all members dispense and receive justice to and from each other in both the internal and external communities.
      • Students must be educated for responsible citizenship, and self-directed lifelong learning
      • Peace is facilitated though cultural awareness and service in support of justice.
    5. Education for Adaptation and Change (Aina): True to the tradition of faith, a Marianist-founded education prepares students for tomorrow and facilitates adapting to the changes brought about each day. This scholarly community of learners regards technology as a critical aid in the quest for understanding in a changing world.
      • Creative problem solving, divergent thinking and effective communication are nurtured
      • Reflection facilitates learning
      • Technology enriches the learning environment and the learning experience
      • Assessment improves instruction and increases student achievement
      • Students must be educated for responsible citizenship, and self-directed lifelong learning

Our Programs

  • Undergraduate Program: Our undergraduate programs focus on teacher preparation. We have
    • An Undergraduate Day Bachelor of Education program that prepares students for elementary teaching;
    • Bachelor of Education programs for both elementary and secondary (English and social studies) licensure offered through our Adult, Evening and Online Programs (AEOP);
    • A dual licensure degree program in elementary and special education in cooperation with the Hawai`i Department of Education for educational assistants; and
    • Early Childhood Education (ECE) programs that include Childhood Development Associate (CDA) certification, an Associate of Science degree in ECE, and Bachelor of Science in ECE.
  • Graduate Program: Our graduate programs prepare professionals to assume a leadership role in education by advancing their educational training and expertise. There are two options for prospective students:
    • A Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) degree, a State Approved Teacher Education Program that prepares candidates for licensure in Elementary, Secondary, Special Education, or Pre-Kindergarten-Grade Three (PK-3) classrooms
    • A Master of Education (M.Ed.) program in five areas of emphasis: Child Development, Early Childhood Education with Montessori Emphasis, Educational Leadership, Instructional Leadership, and Montessori Credential

Accreditation

  • Chaminade University is accredited by the Accrediting Commission for Senior Colleges and Universities of the Western Association of Colleges and Schools. Programs in the Education Division are accredited by the Hawai’i Teacher Standards Board. The Montessori Program is also accredited by the Montessori Accreditation Council of Teacher Education and the American Montessori Society.

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