Undergraduate Programs

Licensing Sequences

Early Childhood-Adolescence: Regular Education

To teach at the early childhood through adolescence level, birth through age 21, students must complete a teaching major in one of the following areas as well as the Professional Core and specialized professional studies requirements for teaching students in a wide range of ages:

• Art and Design Teaching
• Spanish Teaching
• Music Education
• Theatre Arts Teaching

Middle Childhood-Early Adolescence: Regular Education

To teach children and youth ages six through thirteen, students must complete the Elementary Education major with a minor.

Early Adolescence-Adolescence: Special Education

To teach children and youth ages ten through 21 in special education populations, students complete the graduate program in cross-categorical special education. Undergraduate licensing programs are excellent foundations on which to build a graduate program in special education.

Early Adolescence-Adolescence: Regular Education

To teach at the early adolescence through adolescence level, ages 10-21, students must complete a teaching major and minor in Middle/Secondary Education. Teaching majors include: Biology, Broad Field Science, Broad Field Social Studies: History Concentration with Teaching Minor, Computer Science Education, English Teaching, and Mathematics Teaching. Additional Teaching minors are also available in Biology, Chemistry, English, History, Teaching English Language Learners (TESOL), French, Mathematics, Theatre Arts Teaching and Spanish. Minors must be accompanied by a teaching major and minors in science may be taken only in combination with a science teaching major.

Teaching English Language Learners: ESL

This English as a Second Language license is an add-on license and must be attached to a content area license in Early Childhood: Regular Education; Middle Childhood-Early Adolescence: Regular Education; Early Adolescence-Adolescence: Regular Education. This license enables students to teach English language learners in either a mainstream or pull out classroom. Proficiency in a second language beyond Edgewood College’s minimum degree requirements is not required as the language of instruction is English.

Teaching English Language Learners: ESL/Bilingual

This English as a Second Language/Bilingual License is an add-on license and must be attached to a content area license in Early Childhood: Regular Education or Middle Childhood-Early Adolescence: Regular Education. The license enables candidates to teach English Language learners in a bilingual classroom. Proficiency in a second language is required as the language of instruction includes English and a language other than English.

Undergraduate Program Plans

The following program plans point out the normal means of satisfying requirements. The School of Education may approve equivalents or substitutions for requirements listed. Students should contact their advisor for more information.

Programs

• Art and Design Teaching, Early Childhood through Adolescence: Regular Education (Birth-Age21), BA/Licensing
• Elementary Education BA/Licensing
• French and Spanish Teaching, Early Childhood through Adolescence: Regular Education (Birth-Age 21), BA/Licensing
• Music Teaching, Early Childhood through Adolescence: Regular Education (Birth-Age 21), BA/Licensing
• Theatre Art Teaching, Early Childhood through Adolescence: Regular Education (Birth-Age 21), BA/Licensing

• Child Life, BS
• Studies in Education, BS/Non-Licensing
• Studies in Education, Child Life Concentration, BS

• Secondary Education, Early Adolescence through Adolescence: Regular Education (Ages 10-21), Minor/Licensing
• Special Education, Minor/Licensing
• Teaching English Language Learners: ESL, Minor/Licensing
• Teaching English Language Learners: ESL/Bilingual, Minor/Licensing