学生们通过扫荡的石阶和Faye和Joe B. Wyatt中心的庄严柱子发现了Peabody的教学部门，这是一个典雅的圆顶建筑，坐落在Peabody校园的尽头。但这就是象牙塔的相似之处结束的地方。与纳什维尔公立学校的教室和走廊一样，教学与学习系的教师在大学的研讨室里所花的时间也很多，从而导致了该国一些准备最充分的新教师。系主任罗杰斯·霍尔教授说：“我们的学生在野外实习时得到了卓越的监督支持，将他们在校园里学到的理论与实际课堂中的实践联系起来。” “这些经验，加之与了解最新研究并且对孩子的学习方式非常熟悉的教
Peabody's Department of Teaching and Learning through the sweeping stone stairs and stately columns of the Faye and Joe B. Wyatt Center, the elegant domed edifice that sits at the head of Peabody's campus. But that's where any resemblance to an ivory tower ends. Faculty in the Department of Teaching and Learning spend as much time in the classrooms and hallways of Nashville's public schools as they do in the seminar rooms of the college, leading to some of the best-prepared new teachers in the country.<br>''Our students have an exceptional level of supervised support as they work in field placements, connecting the theory they learn on campus with practice in real classrooms'' says Professor Rogers Hall, former Chair of the Department. ''These experiences, combined with access to faculty who know current research and are intimately familiar with how children learn, make for an outstanding program.<br>Because we seek to prepare teachers who are effective from their first day, our program has an exceptionally rich set of field experiences that provides students who are seeking certification with the skills and knowledge they need to begin their professional lives,'' says Hall. ''Students interested in education who are not seeking certification benefit equally from these powerful experiences, as they use our field experiences as a means to understand the applications of theoretical knowledge about learning, teaching and development that can be applied in a variety of contexts.''