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Elementary teaching education is a one-year full-time program resulting in getting a Master of Arts in Education. Its small size (roughly 20 candidates), entrée to top staff and experienced cooperating teachers, and connected design provide highly concentrated instruction intermixed with practical teaching experience, protracted mentoring and personalized consultation. Elementary teaching education recognizes the combination of the numerous fields of knowledge, which underlie effectual teaching and offers multiple options for observing, practicing, and planning varied pedagogical approaches in particular clinical environment.
Elementary teacher candidates obtain an unusual number of classroom experiences in this program, and, therefore, they are extremely well trained for the first year of their professional teaching. Candidates take part in three area placements in public, local elementary schools, embracing a diversity of grade levels. The candidates are maintained by excellent cooperating teachers and supervisors. Gradually more, classroom placements are actively engaged in plans of school reform.
Universities collaborate with each other to unite professional training and progressive school-based research. The elementary teaching practicum comprises of a typical sixteen hours for a week at the school site. Teaching responsibilities slowly but surely enlarge during the year with the growth and development of the candidates. A bilingual stress on the elementary diploma is obtainable for candidates skillful in Spanish.