Child Development Center
Occidental's
Child
Development Center opened in 1993 and is licensed by
the state to care for 42 children ages 2 to 5. The center is
staffed by six teachers and offers a preschool curriculum.
Community Literacy Center A community resource since 1963,
the
Literacy Center provides one-on-one reading and writing instruction
for local K-6 children. Our student tutors provide individualized
attention.
The
California Foreign Language Project
The
L.A. Stars,
a regional center of the California Foreign Language Project, is based
in Thorne Hall Room 9A. The project is charged with improving
California's K-14 foreign, second and home language programs. this
project offers professional growth and teaching strategy improvement
workshops for teachers in Los Angeles and neighboring counties.
The Teacher Education
Advisory Board (TEAB) The TEAB, comprised of teachers,
administrators, and community members, has two major purposes: (1) to
provide an ongoing review for our Multiple-Subject and Single-Subject
credential programs, and (2) to advise the Department on matters related
to the professional education of prospective teachers. The TEAB
normally meets twice annually, once in fall semester and once in spring.
Education Department students, faculty, staff and programs in leadership
and teaching have greatly benefited from this mutually rewarding
relationship since 1986.
TOPS
Since 1992,
TOPS
(Teachers + Occidental = Partnership in Science) has trained high school
science teachers the latest biology, chemistry and physics concepts and
provide their students with advanced scientific equipment for hands-on
lab experience in the program's mobile laboratory.
Upward Bound
Each year,
Upward Bound
helps more than 100 low-income high school students become the first
person in their family to attend college. Established as one of
Upward Bound's original pilot programs, our is one of the largest and
most successful in California.
