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)

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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.