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Learn to teach at Austin Peay.

Our diverse program offerings bring your career as an educator even closer from our k-12 programs through our Doctorate in Educational Leadership. Are you ready to lead? We're ready to show you how.

Learn to teach at Austin Peay.

Our diverse program offerings bring your career as an educator even closer from our k-12 programs through our Doctorate in Educational Leadership. Are you ready to lead? We're ready to show you how.

Learn to teach at Austin Peay.

Our diverse program offerings bring your career as an educator even closer from our k-12 programs through our Doctorate in Educational Leadership. Are you ready to lead? We're ready to show you how.

Austin Peay's Education programs will give you the tools you need to be a world-class educator.

Our departments of Teaching and Learning and Educational Specialties offer undergraduate and graduate degree programs that will give you the training you need to be successful in our classroom and in yours. Our various Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) programs provide multiple avenues for career changers and college graduates in other disciplines to prepare themselves for their particular niche in the teaching profession. The Doctorate of Educational Leadership will prepare you for a variety of positions from state and district leadership roles to educational research careers.

Academic Departments

Joanna Zimmerle teaches students in Ready2Teach classroom

Educational Specialties

The Department of Educational Specialties offers advanced degree programs in both licensure and non-licensure areas. The mission of the department of Educational Specialties is to prepare and support educational professionals in their development as effective practitioners.

Teaching and Learning

The Department of Teaching and Learning offers degrees in initial licensure programs. As you pursue your potential career as a professional educator, please explore what the Department of Teaching and Learning has to offer in support of your career goal.

René Villarreal

Music Performance and Education

Any concerts I have played, both ensemble and solo, will always be experiences I will remember as I continue towards the end of my degree program at Austin Peay.

Adolph Dagan

('14) Education

I want to encourage others to excel, that come from other countries and believe that learning and the curriculum at Austin Peay is difficult. They can do it and it can be done.

Emmanuel Méjeun

('17) Music Performance and Education

Everything about my story is tied to music: it’s my passion, it’s my love, it’s going to be my job — It’s everything to me.

Susannah White

Music Performance, Minor in Music Education

Without Austin Peay's programs, I wouldn't have found my passion for teaching children, or seen the joy a child experiences when they learn how to sing or play an instrument.

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APSU's Chandler named fellow to national educational advocacy organization

Chandler and the other 18 fellows will spend the next year working with Deans for Impact to drive education "program improvements and enhance teacher readiness."

APSU and CMCSS partner on innovative three-year residency and degree program

The Early Learning Teacher Residence program will provide 20 recent high school graduates and 20 CMCSS teacher's aides with an accelerated, free path to become full-time teachers.

Austin Peay cuts out-of-state tuition by nearly half

For years, students living outside of Tennessee paid about $11,000 per semester, but a new rate cuts that amount to just under $6,200 for 12 credit hours.

Retired APSU professor Dr. Camille Holt establishes Jo and Isaac Buck Endowment

Holt recently donated $25,000 to the Austin Peay Foundation to honor the memory of her late parents by creating the Jo and Isaac Buck Endowment.

APSU's education doctorate experiences strong first year

The degree, housed within the college's Department of Educational Specialties, consists of 60 credit hours beyond a master's degree, with students taking classes in leadership theory and practice.

Eriksson College
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Austin Peay's Education programs will give you the tools you need to be a world-class educator.

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Austin Peay's Education programs will give you the tools you need to be a world-class educator.

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