Essential ingredients in this partnership are the successful integration of theory and practice in its teacher education programs and the ‘field experience’. The placement experience  in our teacher education programs go far beyond simply providing ‘experience’ in classrooms. Rather they comprise a developmental socialization process to the profession of teaching. The objective of these experiences is to enable students to become more other oriented towards children, more skillful at transforming content knowledge into forms that are pedagogically powerful, and more knowledgeable about curriculum, educational contexts, and purposes. All skills and competencies that are relevant to modern day teaching. By creating an attractive environment within which to learn, teacher-trainees get the opportunity to become skilled teachers who can excel in all aspects of education.