Welcome to the online home of the Darden College of Education! The Darden College of Education at Old Dominion University is committed to excellence in teaching, scholarly activities, and service. Within the context of a diverse student body and faculty, the college strives to achieve its goals of excellence by meeting the educational needs of the Commonwealth of Virginia, the nation, and the world. The College excels through the achievement of national and international prominence in the disciplines of the college and through the preparation of outstanding educators, leaders and professionals. The mission of the Darden College of Education is to prepare distinguished professionals who become leaders in their fields.
The principles that guide the work of the Darden College of Education are professionalism, collaboration, and innovation yielding added value to the lives of our students.
In our quest to continue to add value to the lives of our students the College has recently undergone a reorganization of our administrative offices and services. This reorganization enables the college to re-align academic programs within the college. These curricular realignments provide for more collaboration among faculty and students in related disciplines. It also enables the College to more readily develop innovations addressing the needs of constituents of the college. Because of the outstanding work of the faculty, staff and students of the College we are able to continue working to impact the community and world around us.
Benefits of Reorganization to University and Commonwealth of Virginia.
- Continuing reputational achievements of the Darden College of Education.
- Enhanced and more visible response of the University to address national and Commonwealth shortage of professionals trained in STEM (sciences, technology, engineering and mathematics) careers by aligning all STEM educator preparation programs in one department.
- Increasing emphasis on literacy and reading in the early childhood education and elementary education teacher preparation programs by aligning literacy, reading, library sciences, social studies, and English in same department.
- Eliminating unnecessary instructional costs associated with duplication of courses in research and educational statistics across departments in the college.
- Aligning competencies required of educator preparation programs by the Virginia Department of Education.
We are excited about the NEW Darden College of Education! And we invite you to explore our site for more information. The Academic Departments are listed below.
Department of Communication Disorders and Special Education
Department of Counseling and Human Services
Department of Educational Foundations and Leadership
Department of Human Movement Sciences
Department of STEM Education and Professional Studies
Department of Teaching and Learning
