Coordinator:
Ravit Duncan (848-932-0792; email: ravit.duncan@gse.rutgers.edu)
Please visit the website.
Program Description:
The five-year teacher education program in biological science 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.
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)
Biological Science Education (15 credits)
05:300:462 Demonstration and Technology in Science Teaching (3)
11:300:450
Biology and Society (3)
11:300:453
Teaching and Assessment in Life Science (3)
Graduate-level electives in life science or science education (6)
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 biological science education must complete a full major in life science (animal science, biotechnology, biological science, cell biology and neuroscience, ecology and natural resources, environmental science [life science option], food science, genetics and microbiology, marine science [life science option], molecular biology, nutritional science, plant science, physiology). Regardless of the chosen major, at least 30 credits of coursework in the life sciences must be included.
Combined B.A./B.S./Ed.M. Five-Year Teacher Preparation Programs 
