FEA will benefit your students, teachers, schools, and communities in a number of ways. FEA is an effective and dynamic way for you to:
- Attract exemplary future educators and begin averting shortages at a local level, particularly within the areas of math, science, and special education;
- Encourage students from diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds to enter the profession;
- Elevate the image of teaching and promote it as a challenging and rewarding career;
- Enhance and facilitate school and college/university relationships; and
- Improve student achievement by focusing on the cognitive and pedagogical underpinnings of academic performance.
Through affiliation with the FEA international office, you will receive:
- Access to a premier online community, FEAConnect, where students and advisors can find relevant information about the field of education, as well as exchange ideas, opinions, and advice pertinent to their experience in FEA;
- Select PDK publications, free of charge;
- A discounted registration rate for the annual national conference;
- Information about Prospective Educator Scholarships, which are offered through PDK;
- A connection to the international network of FEA chapters;
- The opportunity to take part in FEA Honor Society; and
- Advisor materials, including
- Online advisor training sessions
- FEA Handbook for Chapter Advisors, Seventh Edition, which provides advisors with specific program information, including ideas for activities and events
- A subscription to Communiqué, a monthly e-mail newsletter
- Free marketing materials
- Access to FEA merchandise
- Support from the international office