• This course of study provides a developmental perspective as a starting place, follows with an inquiry into the issues that face contemporary educators and schools, looks at techniques for improving middle and secondary students' reading and writing across the curriculum, and examines research into methods of teaching middle/secondary school subjects.
  • These courses, along with 75 hours of monitored fieldwork, constitute the pre-practicum. The capstone of the program for the initial licensure is the semester-long supervised practicum and the accompanying portfolio.
  • Competency I of the state’s regulations for licensure covers the knowledge base that teachers must bring to the classroom. For middle and secondary teachers, this is one of the disciplines taught in middle/high school (e.g., English, History, Spanish, Biology, Mathematics, Physics, etc.). Most commonly, middle/secondary teachers are licensed in the fields in which they hold their B.A. or B.S.