More than 100 employers attended Teacher Fair 2007 and conducted approximately 1,900 interviews. For detailed information about the education programs offered at Ball State University, please visit http://www.bsu.edu/teachers/major/ or contact the Career Center at emptasst@bsu.edu.

You can employ teachers from a number of universities across the nation. Why choose a teacher prepared at Ball State University?

Ball State offers you

• an exemplary teacher-education program;
• a university-wide commitment to teacher education;
• a comprehensive teacher-education program;
• a Career Center committed to employer satisfaction.

An Exemplary Teacher-Education Program

Ball State University has been recognized for its outstanding programs in teacher education, which are accredited by the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education, the North Central Association, and the Indiana Professional Standards Board.

A report by the National Institute of Education cited Ball State's elementary education department as one of six demonstrating "What Is Right with Teacher Education."

Teaching experiences even before student teaching help Ball State students decide if they truly want to be teachers. EXEL, a program that includes more in-classroom experiences than many other programs, also offers more intensive, integrated study of subject matter. Students majoring in elementary education also have opportunities to study for a semester in London, England, or in Monterrey, Mexico.

Ball State has the only program in Indiana preparing teachers of the deaf that offers a residency at the Indiana State School for the Deaf.

The University of Miami (Florida) ranked Teachers College among the top ten teacher-education institutions in the nation in a survey of education deans.

Ball State operates Burris School, the only K-12 laboratory school in Indiana.

The Department of Educational Psychology produces more school psychologists than any other Indiana college or university.

The Department of Counseling Psychology and Guidance Services has a practicum clinic that serves more than six hundred community-based clients each year.