Coordinator:
Program Description: The five-year teacher education program in elementary education (K-6) and English as a Second Language leads to a bachelor's degree, a master's degree, and initial teacher certification in elementary education. Candidates will also be recommended for the ESL and/or Bilingual/Bicultural endorsement upon completion of the program. (All ESL coursework in the program must be completed at Rutgers University. No transfer credits will be accepted.)
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 (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 Educational Psychology: Principles of Classroom Learning (3)
Phase 1 (Summer before senior year) (6 credits)
Working with Minors Online Training (NC)
School Law Module (NC)
05:300:420 or 15:251:580 Inquiry Based Teaching, Learning, and Assessment (3)
05:300:433 or 15:253:523 Language and Culture (3)
Phase 1 (Senior fall) (14.5 credits)
05:300:498 Clinical Experience Phase 1 (.5)
05:300:450 Urban Education 1 (1.5)
05:300:452 Teaching Emerging Bilinguals in PK-12 Classrooms 1 (1.5)
05:300:430 Principles of Language Learning: Second and World Language Acquisition (3)
15:251:561 Teaching Mathematics in PK Elementary 1: Operations, Algebra, and Place value (2)
05:300:471 Teaching Social Studies in Elementary School (3)
05:300:494 Literacy Development in the Early Years (3)
Phase 2 (Senior spring) (15 credits)
05:300:499 Clinical Practice Phase 2 (4)
05:300:451 Urban Education 2 (1.5)
05:300:495 or 15:299:516 Literacy Development in the Elementary and Middle School (3)
15:251:562 Teaching Mathematics in Elementary 2: Fractions, Geometry and Data Analysis (2)
05:300:461 Science in PK and Elementary School: Learning and Assessment (3)
Phase 3 (Fifth year summer) (6 credits)
15:293:534 Classroom Organization for Inclusive and Special Classrooms (3)
15:253:530 Foundations of Language (3)
Phase 3 (Fifth year fall) (15 credits)
15:255:535 Clinical Practice Phase 3 (9)
15:255:532 Clinical Practice Phase 3 Seminar (6)
Phase 4 (Fifth year spring) (12 credits)
05:300:406 Community-Based Language Learning; or 15:253:540 Teaching English Language Learners; or 15:255:539 Students, Communities, and Social Justice (3)
05:300:304 Art Across the Curriculum (3)
15:293:523 Inclusive teaching in Education (3)
05:300:439 or 15:253:539 Methods for Teaching and Assessing English Language Learners (3)
Combined B.A./B.S./Ed.M. Five-Year Teacher Preparation Programs 
