Meisei University, which has continued to train teachers for many years and has the highest number of successful university students in the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's teacher employment examination, opened the Faculty of Education in 2010, and its teacher recruitment record is year by year. It continues to improve.We asked Professor Togashi, the Dean of the Faculty, about the secret of this breakthrough, the training of teachers at Meisei University centered on the efforts of the Faculty of Education, and the various centers that support it.

Multiple licenses can be obtained for 11 courses in XNUMX groups and all courses.In recent years, the number of people who have passed the recruitment test has increased significantly.

The catchphrase "Meisei University of Education" expresses the idea of ​​enhancing the educational power of the entire university, not just the Faculty of Education.All faculties are working hard every day to realize the abilities that they want their students to acquire through "Teshio Education".

The goal of the Faculty of Education is to fulfill the students' desire to become teachers and nursery teachers as much as possible, and we are striving to pursue more desirable mechanisms, educational contents and methods.

The Faculty of Education of Meisei University is a one-department system with only the Department of Education, and there are 11 courses in XNUMX groups.Inheriting the traditions of the past, elementary school teacher courses to which the largest number of students belong, specialized courses including Japanese, social, mathematics, science, music, art, health and physical education, and English courses, special support teacher courses, and children's clinical courses It is a course.In any course, you can obtain multiple licenses including a class XNUMX elementary school teacher's license.Obtaining multiple licenses is suitable for the future childcare and education system and meets the demands of society.We have already established a certified children's institution that integrates nursery schools and kindergartens for preschool children, and a public integrated elementary, junior high and high school.

Efforts to train teachers with practical skills will also improve their achievements in the teacher employment exam.In order to be a university that is highly evaluated by society in the face of the declining birthrate, it is necessary to improve not only the daily fulfillment of the students who have entered the university, but also the visible achievements of their career paths after graduation.Fortunately, the efforts have been fruitful in all departments that have a teaching profession course, including the Faculty of Education, and the number of successful applicants for the first examination of the public school teacher recruitment selection in 2017 was 1, 66.1% of the examinees.As far as the Faculty of Education is concerned, the pass rate is as high as 213%.
Changes in the passing rate of the primary exam (statistics of all local governments and all school types)
Although the final results are being announced by the local boards of education, we expect that the regular recruitment rate of active students will exceed the average of the faculty of teacher training at national universities this year as well.The pass rate is increasing year by year as shown in the graph, but what is most encouraging for us is that this fosters pride as an undergraduate student at Meisei University and motivates us to study independently. is.This motivation supports the growth of students, and many students in the Faculty of Education embody the lessons of Meisei Gakuen, "Health, Seriousness, and Effort," and acquire an attitude of working while being inspired by each other. To go.The growth of learning after entering Meisei University is remarkable.I would like to introduce the education of Meisei University that creates it.
Breakdown of successful applicants by municipality

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