Why This听Program?
Making a difference through education.听听
This elementary education program will transform you from a college student to a caring teacher. Accredited by the听,听our program's听small class sizes, careful student advising and personalized attention is known to produce highly qualified and professional kindergarten to sixth grade (K-6) educators. 听
- Get Early Additional Involvement: As a Charger, you'll be active in actual classrooms from the get-go: observing teachers, working with small groups of students and being part of our unique听Professional Development School,听based upon the standards of the听. Here you will work with听谤别补濒听K-6 students in听real听learning听situations to put theory into practice, build relationships with students, all while earning credit for your methods of teaching courses. In the end, you will have over 200 hours of classroom experience that will increase your confidence and ultimately prepare you for your听student teaching听experience.
- Student Teaching Experience:听Leveraging our relationship with local听Siouxland community public听and听private schools, Briar Cliff will make sure you're听prepared and facilitate your student teaching internship assignment(s). Generally, this will take place in the final year of your college career, with the internship being a full-time responsibility, as you are required to follow the schedule and activities of the cooperating teacher, including after-school meetings and activities. Our graduates say that the student teaching experience for credit is both听the most challenging and rewarding part of being an education major.
- Become Catholic School Certified:听You have the option to complete a certificate program to teach in Catholic schools. This certificate program is a partnership between the four Iowa Catholic Dioceses and BCU's education and听theology departments. Although not a full teaching endorsement, this certificate better prepares you to teach religion courses and gives you preferential hiring status in Diocesan听schools.
- Easily Boost Your Resume:听As a part of the elementary education major, you'll complete a K-8 reading endorsement, and if possible, a听5-8 middle school,听special education, physical education听补苍诲/辞谤 coaching endorsements. These endorsements supplement an elementary education major, so you'll be qualified to teach more subject areas and more grade levels.听
An education degree from Briar Cliff means that you can graduate with more classroom experiences supervised by 51漫画 faculty.听