A Worthy Calling: 125+ Years of Preparing Teachers
More than 125 years after its chartering, the institution known since 1957 as Northern Illinois University continues to prepare excellent teachers with the professional knowledge, abilities and passion demanded by current and future stakeholders.
Whether in the one-room schoolhouses that crowded the Prairie State for much of our first half-century or in the cutting-edge, high-tech classrooms of today, graduates of the NIU College of Education have applied their transferable skills in ways that manifest or anticipate contemporary best practices.
NIU’s legacy of teacher preparation encompasses the foundational – what we teach, the methods of teaching and its tools – as well as the theoretical concepts including classroom management and differentiation of instruction.
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