The Education Department is committed with the professional preparation of teacher candidates and envisions them as the purpose of the educational endeavor. It recognizes the teacher candidates as learners in constant development and as builders of their own knowledge, who promote effective learning among students in K-3 and 4-6. It envisions teacher candidates as social beings with ethical, aesthetic, civic, and moral values; and a product and part of all evolutionary processes of society. It aspires to strengthen in the teacher candidates, through the cognitive- humanistic approach, the cognitive, affective, and intellectual dimensions, the content, pedagogical, and professional knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary to help all students learn in the different educational settings.