Childhood Education

Sequence Three of the Childhood Education MSEd is a 15-month teacher residency program designed for college graduates who have not completed programs leading to initial certification in childhood education and wish to become elementary school teachers. Participants will receive a stipend for spending an entire academic year apprenticing in a host school.  Upon satisfactory completion of the program, students will have met the academic requirements for initial certification in childhood education.  Students move through the program as a cohort and complete many courses on site at the host school. 

 The program will foster and enhance students' competence in teaching, understanding of current educational research and theory, and knowledge in selected areas of the liberal arts and sciences. It appreciates and recognizes that education occurs across the lifespan in a variety of settings, and its courses reflect these understandings, work to foster these dispositions in students, and actualize these perspectives in practice.