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Our teachers – quality in action
At most colleges, professors have never had any professional training in the science and art of teaching. We believe that placing an untrained individual in front of a class of intelligent students is irresponsible. You deserve better.
At Founders, we ensure that all of our faculty are superlative teachers by requiring them to pass our revolutionary teacher training program. This unique, rigorous program gives them the skills they need to properly teach and motivate every student. It covers a wide variety of relevant topics, including the selection of course content, student motivation, structuring knowledge so that students can retain and use it, appropriate use of examples, how to answer questions most effectively, and how to lead students from one concept to the next in an effective manner.
To ensure the continued quality of our classroom instruction, our faculty members are not given tenure. We believe that professors should be rewarded not for longevity, but for effectiveness and performance – and that’s how our teachers are evaluated, throughout their professorial careers. In keeping with the value placed on teaching, Founders is not a research institution; our professors are at Founders to teach, not publish. Our faculty is selected for their love of their field and their dedication to teaching students.