College of Professional Education

Our teacher education and literacy and learning faculty share your passion. Whether you want to start your career in education, enhance your current teaching career or want to move into teaching from a different career, our programs prepare you to make an impact in the classroom and beyond. Check into programs that focus on early childhood in literacy and learning or programs in teacher education covering through sixth grade, the middle grades (4-8), or up through grade 12.

Texas Woman’s department of human development, family studies, and counseling provides programs aimed at strengthening families. Prepare to work as a counselor, parent educator, child life specialist or marriage and family therapist; administer programs for infants/toddlers; or enter other fields aimed at enhancing the quality of life for individuals and families.

Our department of literacy and learning prepares leaders in literacy by providing study in literacy teaching and learning from preschool through adult years as well as programs focused on early childhood education. Our Reading Recovery Training Center is one of only two in the U.S. that can train trainers for other universities, and is the only Descubriendo la Lectura training center in the world.

Our School of Library and Information Studies (SLIS) offers master’s degree and certification programs that prepare professionals to work in information environments including academic, public, medical or school libraries; corporate and other special libraries; government agencies; and more.