All Language Arts, 5-12 Secondary, BA

Professional Education Core Requirements

Candidates for an initial teaching license must complete a major in Birth-Grade 3: Inclusive Settings, a major in Elementary Education, a major in Instructional Strategist II: Behavior Disorders/ Learning Disabilities/Intellectual Disabilities, or a major in a secondary teaching subject area. Candidates must complete the approved professional education core courses.

Program Student Learning Outcomes

• Considers Contextual Factors: The teacher uses information about the learning-teaching context and student individual differences to set learning outcomes and plan instruction and assessment.
• Identifies Learning Outcomes: The teacher sets significant, challenging, varied, and appropriate learning outcomes.
• Establishes Assessment Plan: The teacher uses multiple assessment modes and approaches aligned with learning outcomes to assess student learning before, during, and after instruction.
• Creates Design for Instruction: The teacher designs instruction for specific learning outcomes, student characteristics and needs, and learning contexts
• Makes Instructional Decisions: The teacher uses ongoing analysis of student learning to make instructional decisions.
• Analyzes Student Learning: The teacher uses assessment data to profile student learning and communicate information about student progress and achievement.
• Reflects and Evaluates Professional Practices: The teacher analyzes the relationship between his or her instruction and student learning to improve teaching practice.

Required Courses within the Major

• COMM 102 - Introduction to Mass Media 3 Credit(s)
• COMM 105 - Public Speaking 3 Credit(s)
• COMM 221 - Intercultural Communication 3 Credit(s)
• COMM 352 - Rhetoric and Public Culture 3 Credit(s)
• EDU 30002 - Teaching Secondary School English/Language Arts 3 Credit(s)
• EDU 232 - Grammar Content for Teachers 1 Credit(s)
• EDU 307 - Field Experience I: Secondary 3 Credit(s)
• EDU 322 - Field Experience II: Secondary 2 Credit(s)
• EDU 333 - Literature: Birth-Adolescence 3 Credit(s)
• EDU 425 - Content Area Literacy 3 Credit(s)
• EDU 428 - Middle School Curriculum, Design and Strategies 3 Credit(s)
• EDU 445 - Language Acquisition 3 Credit(s)
• ENG 125 - Introduction to Literature 3 Credit(s)
• ENG 170 - Introduction to Creative Writing 3 Credit(s)
• ENG 330 - Shakespeare 3 Credit(s)

Total Credits: 88