Teacher-Led, Teacher Education Program

According to a 2016 report from the Indiana Commission of Higher Education, 8.5 percent of Indiana educators leave the field for reasons other than retirement (third highest in the nation). The high attrition of educators, coupled with an insufficient pipeline of teacher candidates from bachelor’s degree programs, has led to drastic increases in alternative teaching credentials and emergency permits.

In the 2020–2021 school year in Indiana, there were 4,474 emergency permits, 419 transition to teaching permits, 11,731 substitute teacher permits, and 1,251 adjunct teacher licenses. The Teacher-Led, Teacher Ed program, offered by Butler University’s College of Education and Office of Continuing Education and Professional Education, is designed to support new teachers, alternatively credentialed, emergency-permitted, or long-term substitute teachers with the training they need to succeed in the classroom.

Cost

Subscription Registration
Program packages are available to schools and districts at a discounted rate. Contact ocpe@butler.edu for details.

Individual Registration
$500 per module

Visit our catalogue to register for one or more modules.

Foundations Module

Students in our program will start with the self-paced Foundations Module where they will learn the basics of classroom management, lesson planning, and how to teach their content in a more effective manner. This 6- to 8-hour training provides real, relevant, bite-sized, and actionable vocabulary and information for immediate implementation.

Discipline-Specific Modules

The discipline specific modules support in-service, veteran teachers, teachers stretching across multiple disciplines, and those with few other faculty in their districts. The modules supply real, relevant, and bite-sized support for immediate implementation.  Discipline specific modules include: Mathematics, Social Studies, Science, English, English as a New Language, and World Languages.