WLC focuses on preparing quality teachers and positive role models who are ready to face the challenges of traditional and non-traditional educational programs that require a high degree of flexibility, stamina, and resourcefulness. Education majors gain meaningful experience outside of the college classroom through partnerships with area schools. Pre-student teaching clinicals, connected to all methods courses, are conducted in a variety of early childhood, elementary, middle, and secondary school settings.
In an educational landscape desperate for passionate and highly-trained teachers, the Wisconsin Lutheran College education major prepares future teachers as agents of change, ready to make a positive impact in their classroom, school, and district. Preparing to be an educator
is an investment of time, talents, and efforts. The rewards are immeasurable in the
enlightened eyes or the smiles of successful learners who represent the developmental
stages of early childhood, middle childhood, early adolescence, and adolescence.
What Makes the Program Distinctive?
For the seventh year in a row (since the 2011-12 academic year), 100% of our traditional undergraduate education majors have
secured teaching jobs. In the latest assessment, WLC’s teacher education program received a
perfect review from the State of Wisconsin’s Department of Public Instruction.
WLC teacher education majors completing their final year of undergraduate
preparation can gain a competitive edge by taking advantage of a new residency
program. During the semester prior to their 18-week teacher candidacy (student teaching),
WLC teacher education seniors may participate in the undergraduate residency
program. Students spend 15 hours per week helping a teacher in the same school
district – and often in the same building – where they will complete their teacher candidacy.