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I’ve heard the program at Niagara University is a cohort-based program. What is a cohort-based program?

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I’ve heard the program at Niagara University is a cohort-based program. What is a cohort-based program?

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Cohort-based programs are programs in which candidates attend courses and field experiences as a specific group earning their degrees together in a professional learning community. A cohort approach takes a diverse group of students and attempts to build them into a community of teacher-learners by structuring their class schedules together and by teaching them in a way that emphasizes collegiality. It is extraordinarily non-competitive, and thus non-traditional. The learning of each individual will assist the learning of others; the accomplishments of one should help all. This adds to the peer support that candidates experience within their group while at Niagara University, in field experiences, student teaching and later as alumni.