Bachelor of Education at Saint Louis University

Saint Louis University's School of Education provides a well-rounded liberal arts background to enhance students' educational experience.

Program Highlights

• Students enter a tight-knit community of faculty and peers committed to innovative learning, diversity, and the Jesuit tradition's intellectual ideas.
• Students are prepared to practice Cura Personalis– care for the whole person – and work for social justice in their communities.
• Students will graduate prepared to collaborate with families, build classroom communities, have high expectations for all students and advocate for social change.

The following five key learning outcomes are the driving force of the curriculum in SLU's undergraduate education program. Our program is intentionally designed to develop in each graduate an awareness and understanding of their sense of identity, sense of purpose, sense of context, sense of inquiry, and sense of praxis as described in the Compass Themes.

1. As reflective scholar-practitioners, teacher candidates will analyze the rich complexities of an individual's identity.
2. As reflective scholar-practitioners, teacher candidates will defend an evolving sense of purpose grounded in Jesuit values.
3. As reflective scholar-practitioners, teacher candidates will critically examine how education is influenced by context.
4. As reflective scholar-practitioners, teacher candidates will engage in critical inquiry.
5. As reflective scholar-practitioners, teacher candidates will demonstrate responsive teaching praxis in service to the human community.