FIVE-YEAR PROGRAM IN ENGLISH EDUCATION (CERTIFICATION: TEACHER OF ENGLISH [K-12])

Coordinator: Cheryl McLean (848-932-0801; email: cheryl.mclean@gse.rutgers.edu)

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Program Description:

The five-year teacher education program in English education (K-12) leads to a bachelor's degree, a master's degree, and initial teacher certification. Rutgers undergraduates do preliminary coursework and field placements as assigned during the sophomore and junior years, are admitted to the program during the spring semester of the junior year, and enter the professional education sequence in the summer between junior and senior years. Students then qualify to have their bachelor's degree awarded by the undergraduate liberal arts college.

Students continue with the professional sequence the summer after graduation. They return in the fall to complete a student-teaching internship with related coursework and continue with full-time graduate study, including a field-based research project, in the spring. The Ed.M. degree is conferred upon the completion of all five-year program requirements.

After the master's degree is awarded, the GSE will make a recommendation to the New Jersey State Department of Education on behalf of the student to receive a CEAS as a teacher.

Pre-Admission Core Courses (6.5 credits)

05:300:200  Introduction to Education (3)

05:300:201  Introduction to Education Field-Based Lab - Clinical Experience (.5)

05:300:306  Introduction to Educational Psychology: Principles of Classroom Learning (3)

English Education (21 credits)

05:300:421  Language and Linguistics I: Exploring Language, Culture, and Power (3)

05:300:422  Teaching Literacy: Readers, Texts, and Contexts (3)

05:300:423  Teaching Writing: Social and Cognitive Dimensions (3)

15:252:513  Differentiating Instruction in the English Language Arts (3)

15:252:524  Grammar for Educators (3)

15:252:615  Multimodal and Digital Literacies (3) or

15:252:526  Teaching Struggling Readers (3)

Graduate-level electives (3)

Common Professional Education Core (15 credits)

05:300:450  Urban Education I (1.5)

05:300:451  Urban Education II (1.5)

05:300:452  Teaching Emerging Bilinguals in the K-12 Classroom I (1.5)

05:300:453  Teaching Emerging Bilinguals in the K-12 Classroom II (1.5)

15:255:534  Classroom Organization for the Inclusive and Special Classroom (3)

15:293:523  Inclusive Teaching in Education (3)

Choose one from the following:

15:255:539  Communities, Schools, and Social Justice (3)

15:253:540  Teaching English Language Learners (3)

05:300:406  Community-Based Language Learning (3)

Clinical Experience (19.5 credits)

05:300:498  Clinical Experience Phase 1 (.5)

05:300:499  Clinical Practice Phase 2 (4)

15:255:535  Clinical Practice Phase 3 (9)

15:255:536  Clinical Practice Seminar (6)

Major Requirements

Every candidate for certification in English education must complete a full major in English.