Your job as an elementary school teacher is to help children attain basic knowledge and educational skills to be successful in such areas as reading and writing, math, history, science and geography. In addition to academics, you will engender the emotional growth of your students. We?ll teach you how to plan lessons, manage a classroom and enhance your understanding of many different types of learners and cultures.

The Five-Year BA/MAT program allows you to complete your bachelor?s degree, master?s degree and elementary teaching certificate (first through sixth grades) within five years. In your first year, you?ll select a major subject within the College of Arts and Sciences. In your junior year, you?ll begin taking education courses as well as courses in your major. You?ll automatically transition to graduate school after you earn your bachelor?s degree, and your final year will be spent interning at an area school under the supervision of an on-site teacher adviser and a School of Education faculty member.

At the end of five years, you?ll earn your master of arts in teaching degree and will be eligible to test for your elementary teaching certificate. The elementary teaching certificate is accepted in more than 40 states, including all of the Northeast states.