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High School Teaching

Students who complete the University’s secondary education program for high school teaching (grades 9-12) also may qualify for a junior high/middle school license (grades 5-8) by completing:

  1. EDUC 304 Growth & Development: Early Adolescence, 3 hours; and EDUC 488 The Middle School Curriculum, 3 hours; and
  2. EDUC 477 Supervised Teaching Junior High/Middle School, 3-6 hours.

These students will be licensed in the area of the teaching major at both levels: junior high/middle school and high school.

NOTE: There may be exceptions for some programs. See your advisor.

Basic Courses for Education Programs (Exploration Phase)
EDUC196 Foundations of Reflective Teaching
EDUC202 Growth and Development
EDUC214 Instructional Technology in Education
EDUC302 Multicultural Education
EDUC306 Educating Exceptional Children
 
Professional Courses for Secondary Education (Analysis Phase)
EDUC305 Teaching and Learning in the Senior High, Junior High, and Middle School
EDUC493 Content Area Reading: Differentiated Instruction
Special Methods courses in the major teaching field
(a minimum of one course is required):

ART396 Materials and Methods in Elementary and Middle School Art Education
ASBE397 Methods of Teaching Business Education
MATH391 The Teaching of High School Mathematics
EDUC390 Teaching Foreign Languages in the Senior High, Junior High, and Middle School
EDUC394 Teaching Social Studies in the Senior High, Junior High, and Middle School
EDUC395 Teaching English in the Senior High, Junior High, and Middle School
EDUC396 Teaching Science in the Senior High, Junior High, and Middle School
PED396 Teaching Physical Education

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Student Teaching (Synthesis Phase)
EDUC448 Synthesis Seminar in Secondary Teaching (3 hours)
Supervised teaching in middle and high school as prescribed by the Director of School Partnerships (12 hours)
 
Teaching Areas

Students must select as a minimum one of the following patterns:

1. One teaching major (36 credit hours minimum)
2. One teaching major (36 credit hours minimum) and one or more teaching minors (24 credit hour minimum)
3. One all-grade major



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