FIVE-YEAR PROGRAM IN EARLY CHILDHOOD AND ELEMENTARY EDUCATION (CERTIFICATIONS: PRESCHOOL-GRADE 3 [P-3] AND TEACHER OF ELEMENTARY EDUCATION [K-6])
Coordinator: Amy Lewis (848-932-0683; email: amy.lewis@gse.rutgers.edu)
Program Description: The five-year teacher education program in elementary education (K-6) with preschool through grade 3 (P-3) certification 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.
Education Requirements:
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)
Elementary/Preschool Education (31 credits)
05:300:304 Arts Across the Curriculum (3)
05:300:410 Learning and Development in a Social Context: Preschool and Primary Years (3)
05:300:494 Literacy Development in the Early Years (3)
05:300:495 Literacy Development in Elementary and Middle School (3)
15:251:581 Early Childhood Curriculum and Assessment (3)
15:251:561 Teaching Mathematics in PK and Elementary I: Operations, Algebra, and Place Value (2)
15:251:562 Teaching Mathematics in the Elementary II: Fractions, Geometry, and Data Analysis (2)
15:256:554 Science Pre-K and the Elementary School: Learning and Assessment (3)
15:257:564 Teaching Social Studies in the Elementary School (3)
15:251:574 Integrated Curriculum for Young Children (3)
15:295:521 Child, Family, and Community: Relationships in Development (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:
15:253:540 Teaching English Language Learners (3)
05:300:406 Community-Based Language Learning (3)
15:255:539 Communities, Schools, and Social Justice (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
Almost any major offered by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences is acceptable for this program. A major in one of the subject areas taught in the middle school grades, however, will make the program requirements much easier to accomplish (English, mathematics, sciences, social studies). Please check with the program faculty about your choice of major as early as possible in your undergraduate career.