Elementary Education - MacMurray College

Elementary Education from MacMurray College is a Campus Bachelor Elementary Education degree that prepares you for a Education career. The Elementary Education Program at MacMurray College is dedicated to preparing its majors to be competently performing elementary teachers. The general education content courses, which are part of the College's liberal arts tradition, develop a knowledgeable background. In these courses the major will demonstrate a growing ability to be an effective communicator and to be a critical thinker. The methods courses expose the majors to a myriad of teaching theories, strategies, and best-practice techniques. The field experiences provide valuable hours observing, interacting, and teaching elementary students in K-6 classrooms. These field experiences allow the major to develop into a reflective practitioner. Additionally, candidates have opportunities to develop leadership skills inside and outside the classroom while growing in their professional commitment. Two highlights of the Elementary Education Program need to be identified. First, education coursework begins the freshman year and continues throughout the program. Secondly, there are a number of field experiences, also spread over the four years, that are developmental and sequential in nature --- teaching responsibilities begin on a small scale and increase as the major progresses through the sophomore and junior years. These field experiences accumulate more than one hundred twenty clock hours in the classroom. These two highlights allow time for the major to learn and grow with the program over the entire four years. The graduate from MacMurray College will be eligible for an elementary Teaching Certificate after having successfully completed requirements at different checkpoints along with these testing components: passage of the Illinois Test of Basic skills as part of the requirement for formal admission to the Education Department, passage of the Content Area Test for Elementary Education before beginning clinical practice, and passage of the Assessment of Professional Teaching Test when exiting the program. This will enable them to teach anywhere in Illinois from the kindergarten level to sixth grade (Illinois has reciprocal arrangements with thirty-plus states which means your Illinois teaching license will allow you with relative ease to acquire another state's teaching license). View more details on MacMurray College . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Elementary Education courses.