Education- K to 9th Grade (KMS) major

What you will study

This major prepares you to teach in kindergarten through ninth grade. You will have extensive field experiences, starting your freshman year, and a full semester of student teaching. You will take content courses especially designed to make sure that you have a solid knowledge base of the content needed to teach across grade levels in mathematics, science, social students, and English language arts. You will have classroom experiences that span the grades that you will be able to teach.

Beginning Requirements
ED-116Relational Competence Workshop3
ED-201Exploration in Teaching, Learning, and Assessing6
PSY-110Life Span Development4
or SW-250 Human Behavior in Social Environment
Intermediate Requirements
ED-215Engagement in Teaching, Learning, And Assessing6
ED-220Interview Assessment0
ED-225Literacy in Early Childhood3
ED-325Literacy in Middle Childhood I-ELC3
ED-338Early Childhood Curriculum & Field4
ED-396Introduction to Exceptional Learner4
or SPE-314
SPE-315
Foundations of Special Education
and Charac, Assmnt-Lrnrs With Disabilities
ED-399Formal Introduction to Advanced Work0
ED-351Science in the Elementary Curriculum4
ED-352Investigating Integrated Social Studies With the Inquiry Arc4
ED-343Cornerstones for Effective K-9 Mathematics Teaching & Learning4
ED-344Teaching Math/Elementary Classroom2
Advanced Requirements
ED-315Immersion in Tchng, Lrng & Assess6
ED-321Middle School Teaching & Field4
PST 329 Praxis II Prep
PST 400 Praxis II Completed
ED-412Critical Issues in School & Society2
ED-RDGFoundations for Reading Exam (FORT)
ED-420Advancement to Student Teaching Performance Assessment0
ED-475Student Teaching Seminar0
ED-468Student Teaching Placement18