Department of Education

A lot of colleges offer education programs, and you want to choose one that offers you the most. At Niagara University, education majors benefit from:

• Experience in school classrooms, starting freshman year, a distinct Niagara advantage.
• State-of-the-Art Facilities, including interactive technologies such as SMART Board and Interwrite™ interactive whiteboards in the new Academic Complex, which houses the College of Education.
• A Successful Program that was one of the first in the state to be accredited by NCATE (National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education). We are also the only university in New York to be accredited in both the United States and Canada.
• Comprehensive Job Preperation, with up to 99 percent of our graduates passing the New York state teaching certification exams.

Building Your Future

Niagara’s College of Education has a new home: the state-of-the-art Academic Complex, which opened in fall 2007.

It features the latest in instructional resources, including model Pre-K–12 classrooms, interactive teaching labs, and diagnostic observation rooms that feature clinical studios where students tutor children and observe their learning styles. There’s also a family literacy center that affords students opportunities to tutor community members, from young children to adults, in literacy.

In addition, Niagara’s main library houses a curriculum room and teaching studio stocked with educational books, videos, and magazines, plus teaching materials from stencils and construction paper to laminating machines and computers with instructional software.