Beacon Elementary Education Certification Minor

Education Coursework (78 sem. hrs)

• SOCI 270 - Diversity and Society 3 hours or
• ANTH 270 - Diversity and Society 3 hours

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• CDEV 106 - Child Health, Nutrition, and Safety 3 hours
• EDUC 100 - Introduction to Education 3 hours ^{1, 2}
• EDUC 200 - Law, Ethics, and Education 3 hours ³

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• EDUC 202 - Foundations of Elementary Mathematics 3 hours
• EDUC 220 - Methods of Teaching English Learners 3 hours
• EDUC 230 - Educational Psychology 3 hours or
• PSYC 230 - Educational Psychology 3 hours

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• EDUC 280 - Language Acquisition and Emergent Literacy 3 hours
• EDUC 300 - Techniques of Teaching 3 hours ¹
• EDUC 311 - Classroom and Behavior Management Techniques 3 hours ¹
• EDUC 322 - Educational Measurement and Assessment 3 hours
• EDUC 331 - Teaching of Reading 3 hours ¹
• CDEV 335 - Teaching Creative Arts and Movement to Children 3 hours

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• EDUC 337W - Teaching Language Arts in Middle and Elementary Schools 3 hours
• EDUC 338W - Content Reading and Writing 3 hours 1
• EDUC 352 - Teaching Science to Elementary Children 3 hours
• EDUC 354 - Teaching Social Studies to Elementary Children 3 hours
• EDUC 358 - Teaching Mathematics in the Elementary School 3 hours ¹
• EDUC 380W - Diagnostic and Corrective Reading 3 hours
• EDUC 390 - Education and Psychology of the Exceptional Child 3 hours

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• Choose one option from the following:

• PSYC 396 - Child and Adolescent Development 3 hours or
• EDUC 396 - Child and Adolescent Development 3 hours or

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• EDUC 391 - Child Psychology 3 hours and
• EDUC 392 - Adolescent Psychology 3 hours

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• EDUC 400 - Senior Seminar 3 hours (Take course in the semester prior to student teaching)
• EDUC 425 - Undergraduate Student Teaching 12 hours ⁴ (16 weeks)

Note(s):

¹ Includes Field Experience
² Must be taken within first 9 hours of EDUC classes
³ Meets college Ethics requirement
⁴ Must receive a grade of B or higher for certification

Total Semester Hours: 78