The Education Department program goals include:

1. Offer a variety of courses designed to provide the highest competence in content knowledge and teaching strategies.
   
   
2. Maintain close communications with departments to ensure a strong academic program in the student’s major field and to give direction to guide students in choosing courses.
   
   
3. Develop the whole person with special emphasis given in particular to imparting those skills and attitudes which are a strength of the Saint Anselm College liberal arts education: the pursuit of truth, critical thinking, problem solving and commitment to academic excellence and Christian Catholic standards of value and conduct.
   
   
4. Provide small classes, which allow personal attention to prospective teachers. The Education Department seeks to promote the spirit of charity, authenticity, and respect for the indivual, which characterizes the Catholic Benedictine community ideal of the college.