Welcome to the Teacher Education Unit website! As the Associate Vice President for Teacher Education at Buffalo State College I provide leadership for the Teacher Education Unit (TEU) and am responsible for its overall administration and operation. I invite you to explore the TEU website!
Since its inception as a “teachers” college, Buffalo State has been a major provider of certified teachers for New York State and beyond. Our teacher education programs were the first among SUNY and private college teacher preparation programs to receive NCATE accreditation. Our campus houses the largest teacher education unit in the region and sends more graduates into public education than any other SUNY campus.
Buffalo State has developed a balance between focusing on preparing practitioners of excellence and conducting field based action research about effective instruction. The Buffalo State College campus is uniquely located—we are an urban campus within 20 miles of two smaller urban districts and within 30 miles of multiple rural and suburban communities. The Teacher Education Unit takes advantage of this access in order to provide our students with a rich understanding of the diversity of the students to whom they will one day be held accountable. Our teacher candidates move beyond traditional borders of schooling to incorporate surrounding urban, rural, and suburban communities and develop insight into their role in transforming school settings and what it takes to be effective in a school building as well as with the surrounding community and stakeholders. We provide programs that are rigorous AND have meaning.
Through the Center for Excellence in Urban and Rural Education (CEURE), Buffalo State focuses on high need school districts working to overcome the challenges associated with education children from underserved communities and overburdened schools. Our Professional Development Schools (PDS) model provides direct field placement experiences in more than 40 schools in Western New York and enhances our ability to immerse teacher education majors into urban and rural classrooms from the beginning of their programs.
As of spring 2009, the Teacher Education Unit consists of 80 programs across 4 schools on campus— 30 of which are undergraduate and 50 graduate teacher education programs. Buffalo State College's Teacher Education Unit serves approximately 1500 undergraduate and 1000 graduate candidates with 126 full-time and 100 part-time faculty members.
I am pleased that you have decided to stop by the Teacher Education Unit website today and invite you to contact my office or any of the program offices directly if you have questions or seek further information on how you can become involved in teachnr education at Buffalo State College.
Enjoy your online visit!
Ronald S. Rochon, Ph.D.
Associate Vice President for Teacher Education
and Dean, School of Education
