Welcome to the Department of Professional Teacher Education (PTE) in the College of Education at the University of Central Oklahoma. The Department reaffirms its historical and continuing commitment to high quality preparation of professional educators at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. We provide educational courses and field experience opportunities for assisting in the preparation of reflective, responsive, and resourceful teachers at the undergraduate level and at the graduate level through the Masters of Education in Secondary Education.

The mission of Department of Professional Teacher Education is to provide undergraduate academic opportunities and experiences which will assist the various undergraduate programs in developing knowledge, skills/competencies, and dispositions in order to become reflective, responsive, and resourceful professionals and to provide scholarly graduate opportunities and experiences for individuals to improve the instructional knowledge and/or specific techniques and skills which will be required in professional work as reflective, responsive, and resourceful scholars who advance the profession through the Masters of Education in Secondary Education.

The department has ten full-time faculty members. The faculty all hold doctorates in Education and/or Philosophy in the areas of curriculum and instruction, educational psychology, applied behavioral studies, foundations of education, and educational leadership and policy studies.

The department offices are located in the Chambers Library on the 3rd floor west. The phone number for the Department is 405-974-5431 (Kara Lampe, Department Administrative Assistant- klampe@ucok.edu). The FAX number is 405-974-3822. The campus mail box number for the Department is 176.