Program
Description
Medaille
College offers a program leading to a Bachelor of Science in Education
degree and New York State Certification Childhood 1-6 or a program leading
to New York State Certification Childhood 1-6.
The Requirements for the program are:
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six semester hours of college-level credit in each of the following subjects: English, mathematics, science, social studies;
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a satisfactory concentration of 36 hours of college-level credit in one of the liberal arts or sciences (includes six of the hours from one of the subject areas listed above);
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one year of college-level study or its equivalent of a language other than English;
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31 semester hours in professional education, which must include six semester hours of study in the teaching of reading; and
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college-supervised student teaching at both the lower (1-3) and upper (4-6) elementary grades or its equivalent.
Each applicant for an initial certificate is required to achieve a satisfactory level of performance on the liberal arts and sciences portion and on the written assessment of teaching skills portion of the New York State Certification Examinations.
As a requirement for the Educational Preparation Program Childhood 1-6 (B.S. in Ed.), all students must complete their last 30 hours of course work at Medaille College and attain a 2.50 cumulative average.
Credit
Distribution
Bachelor
of Science in Education
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Credit
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| Liberal Arts or Science Concentration |
30
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| English |
6
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| Mathematics |
6
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6
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6
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| One Year Non-English |
6
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| Student Teaching |
12
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| Pedagogy |
31
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