Endorsement Program in Early Childhood Education (P-3) (Certification: Teacher of Preschool through Grade 3)

Coordinator: Carrie Lobman (848-932-0809; email: carrie.lobman@gse.rutgers.edu)

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This 24-credit endorsement in Preschool-Grade 3 is available to individuals who hold a Standard Instructional Certificate or Certificate of Eligibility with Advanced Standing (CEAS) in the state of New Jersey. Students already enrolled in a degree program at the GSE, who already possess a Standard or CEAS or are currently working toward initial teacher certification, may complete the endorsement program in conjunction with their degree program. In addition, nondegree-seeking students may complete the program on a nonmatriculated basis. 

The program has three goals:

1. to prepare early childhood professionals to work in diverse settings with an understanding of the contexts in which children grow and develop;
2. to prepare teachers who are knowledgeable about children's learning and their physical, cognitive, social, and emotional development; and
3. to foster an understanding of a variety of ways in which early childhood programs can be delivered to support the foundations of discipline-based knowledge in literacy, mathematics, science, and art.

Course Requirements

05:300:304 (G)  Art Across the Curriculum (3)

05:300:410 (G)  Learning and Development in a Social Context: Preschool and Primary Years (3)

15:251:574  Integrated Curriculum with Young Children (3)

15:251:581  Early Childhood Curriculum and Assessment (3)

15:253:540  Teaching English Language Learners (3) or 15:255:539  Students, Communities, and Social Justice (3)

15:295:521*  Child, Family, and Community: Relationships in Development (3)

15:295:522*  Cognition and Language Birth to Age 8: Normal Development and Implications for Risk and Disability (3)

15:299:514  Literacy Development in the Early Years (3)