About Vermont Higher Education Collaborative
VT-HEC’s mission is to collaborate with the Vermont Department of Education, Vermont’s higher education institutions and other organizations to make quality preparation, training and support programs accessible to schools, educators and educators-to-be. VT-HEC seeks out experts in each field it addresses to work together to develop and deliver quality learning opportunities and supports in areas of critical need that could not be delivered by one organization alone.
What We Believe and Practice:
VT-HEC has adopted a set of principles and practices to support our work with educators in their professional training and enhance their innate capacity to learn. These principles include:
* A respect for the learner as an adult
* Accountability on the part of the organization, the instructors and the students
* Immediacy, relevance and congruence in the information that we provide
* The practice of using a dialogue approach in our teaching to ensure an exchange of opinions and ideas.
Our Unique Nature:
Because of the collaborative nature and flexibility of VT-HEC, we have been able to respond to the needs of the field in a timely way and create capacity by pulling together a variety of experts and stakeholders to make quality preparation, training and support programs accessible to schools, educators and educators-to-be in critical need areas. These educational experts have provided valuable input into the development of program and coursework as well as share their knowledge and expertise as instructors in the classroom. This has allowed us to deliver learning opportunities and supports in areas of need when and where they are needed.