Master of Education

　The university has established the following Master Course diploma policy. It provides standards for the assessment and certification of learning outcomes.

1. Students must have acquired the abilities described below and the prescribed credits in the university’s academic program. Specialists who help address contemporary diversified educational issues and improve education in developing countries must possess the following advanced theoretical and practical competencies:
   (1) an awareness of one’s societal responsibilities and the ability to actively and creatively engage in the education field and address educational issues while working with schools, societies (including global society), and households in one’s capacity as a specialist;
   (2) the ability to apply advanced knowledge and research practices of one’s field to address educational issues in society. Furthermore, the ability to share research findings with society;
   (3) the ability to, with the heightening educational capabilities of schools, societies, and developing countries in mind, reflect on one’s research topics/findings and continually learn in order to improve them.
2. In the university’s academic program, students must have deeply investigated their research topic in a manner that accounts for the heightening educational capabilities of schools, societies, and developing countries; have written a thesis; and have passed the thesis defence and examination.

Professional Degree Course

  The university has established the following diploma policy for the Professional Degree Course. It provides standards for the assessment and certification of learning outcomes.
 

1. Students must have spent two or more years in the Professional Degree Course, obtained the prescribed credits, acquired the advanced practice-oriented skills described below as educators, and developed professional qualities and abilities as teachers:
   (1) the practice-oriented ability to respond to diverse educational issues and develop new subject education practices, using both experiential knowledge of educational practice and wide-ranging specialized knowledge and skills;
   (2) the ability to engage in self-education as a teacher. In other words, the ability to reflect on one’s own educational practice and to independently and continually learn in order to improve as a teacher;
   (3) the ability to collaborate with other teachers and to invigorate educational activities in school organizations, not limiting oneself to one’s own educational practice.
    
2. Students must conduct, in the university’s academic program, theoretical and practice-based research related to solving educational issues, compile their findings in a final research report, and pass the examination of their research report

College of Education

  Based on the idea that education should bring out the full potential of children who carry our future society, Naruto University of Education aims to educate students to be teachers as an innovative practitioner who are capable of continuously learning for themselves as a teacher and creating teaching practice adapted to the students'diverse capabilities and the increasingly complex challenges of education.’
  In order to achieve this goal, we have established the following diploma policy for the undergraduate program, as a standard for the certification of learning outcomes.
  Students are expected to acquire the prescribed credits in the university's academic program as well as the following basic abilities and attributes required as a teacher:

 
(1) A teaching attitude
  Students must build the traits and qualities needed for the profession of teaching, such as an ethical perspective, a sense of duty, a respectful attitude towards human rights and a good overall insight into the children's needs and the learning process. 
(2) Basic teaching knowledge
  Students must possess specific knowledge regarding the different subjects and disciplines they will teach, as well as the teaching profession itself and the educational challenges that the current society presents, and must be able to apply them in class based on their inquiring minds and rich education. 
(3) Basic teaching skills
  Students must acquire the ability to instruct the children both individually and as a group, on the basis of accurate information about their particular conditions and circumstances, and must be capable of guiding their efforts toward active learning. 
(4) In-class teaching skills
  Students must take into account each child's unique traits and circumstances, possess the ability to devise, develop, and assess childcare and teaching, and adapt to the diverse situations that arise naturally during teaching. 
(5) General skills that can be utilized in society
  Students must possess the general skills required to face challenges and work alongside other people to conquer them, as these skills constitute the foundation of their profession.