Education Program

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Department Chair: Richard L. Biffle III, Ph.D.
Office: University Classroom Building 326, (808) 974-7582
Web Sites: www.uhh.hawaii.edu/academics/education/ AND www.uhh.hawaii.edu/depts/education/

Professors:
Nina K. Buchanan, Ph.D.
Jan L. Zulich, Ph.D.

Associate Professors:
Richard L. Biffle III, Ph.D.
Jeanine Hirtle, Ed.D.
Manulani Aluli Meyer, Ed.D.

Assistant Professors:
Douglas Carothers, Ed.D.
Michele Ebersole, Ph.D.
Darius Kalvaitus, Ph.D
Pamela B. Thompson, Ph.D.

Instructor – Field Experience Coordinator:
Avis Masuda, Ph.D.

Junior Specialist/Program Advisor:
Terry Reivera, M.Ed.

The UH Hilo Education Department provides preservice and in-service teachers with high quality, integrated, inquiry-and field-based professional development, serves as a resource to area educators who are meeting the challenges of teaching in a culturally rich, technologically advanced society, and conducts as well as guides action research to expand knowledge of teaching and learning. The Department offers a Teacher Education Program (TEP), which leads to initial licensure in the State of Hawaiʻi, and a Master of Education Program (M.Ed.) for the professional development of in-service teachers.

The need for qualified teachers in Hawaiʻi is constant. Shortage areas in the state include mathematics, science, vocational education, special education, and Hawaiian language, especially immersion programs. TEP graduates are successfully employed in teaching upon completion of the program.

Mission

The UH Hilo Education Department is dedicated to the holistic development of transformational educators who are committed to equity, empowerment, and a critical understanding of our world. The Department envisions its future as the heart of a learning community of caring, ethical, and creative people as faculty seek to fulfill the following mission: to promote the professionalization of teaching by providing and engaging in educational experiences that are holistic, empathic, artistic, rigorous, and transformational.