[1] The mission of the College of Education is "to deepen and extend knowledge about the formation and utilization of human capabilities.
"[3] University president John Martin Thomas created the School of Education on June 11, 1923, with Will G. Chambers as its first dean.
Education students are matched with teacher mentors to gain classroom experience as they teach together throughout a school year.
[10] The Cedar Clinic is a counseling service available to all Penn State students for personal and educational concerns.
Named for former Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, this program is funded by the U.S. Department of State.
CSATS links Penn State researchers to K-12 schools and helps them to develop and test teaching strategies that will improve education in the sciences.
The CSATS Curriculum Center makes over 2000 titles of science teaching materials available to teachers.
They are accompanied by Penn State student mentors, who help them with classwork and spend time with them.
The short term student teaching abroad option allows students to do both a traditional student teaching placement in Pennsylvania followed by an international placement in one of 16 countries: Australia, China, Costa Rica, Ecuador, England, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Russia, Scotland, Spain, Turkey, or Wales.