Mission
Florida SouthWestern State College’s School of Education provides a rigorous learning environment ensuring teacher candidates will achieve their greatest potential through a course of study based upon a strong pedagogical, ethical, and socially-conscious foundation that fosters creativity and innovation.
Florida SouthWestern State College’s School of Education produces graduates equipped to contribute to a diverse community of life-long learners in Southwest Florida
Vision
Florida SouthWestern State College's School of Education will provide the community with reflective practitioners possessing the knowledge and skills to educate learners in a world-class global environment.
Principles of Excellence
The teacher candidate will...
- Synthesize academic content, pedagogical skills and educational technology to instruct digital natives.
- Continually explore new methods, best practices and instructional designs to impact p-12 learning.
- Employ strong written, verbal and non-verbal communication skills.
- Emulate and foster caring and ethical behavior in order to build teaching and learning environments that build upon the strengths of students’ diverse cultures and learning styles.
- Collaborate with key stakeholders; such as, administrators, colleagues, parents and leaders in the local community.
- Engage in reflective practice with an understanding that learning is a lifelong process.
FSW School of Education Success
- 495 graduates from the class of 11-12 to class of 17-18 were employed in Florida's public schools in 2018-2019
- 467 of those 495 (94%) are employed locally (Charlotte, Collier, DeSoto, Hendry, Glades, Lee, and Sarasota counties)
- 279 (56%) of those 495 graduates are working in Title I schools
- 91% of our Elementary Education graduates are still teaching 5 years following initial job placement
- 98% of graduates received an Effective (65%) or Highly Effective (33%) rating on their annual teacher evaluation
- 35 Elementary Education program completers have earned the state designation of "High Impact Teacher" (Source: 2019 APPR report and 2018-2019 state employment data)
- Bachelor program graduates received 5 Teacher of the Year Awards, 8 Teacher of Distinction awards, and a Golden Apple finalist
- 3 FSW School of Education bachelor program graduates hired as FSW adjunct professors
- 100% of Fall 2019 final interns passed all sections of the Florida Teacher Certification Exam by the end of the semester
- 97% job placement (63/65) at the 2018-2019 School of Education Fall and Spring job fairs
- Elementary Education Class of 2011 graduate, Joe Merrill's book was released in January 2020 titled "The Interactive Class"