Elementary education students (those interested in teaching grades 1 through 8) take courses in General Education covering these areas:
 

The Elementary Education Program with 3 semesters of extensive fieldwork begins with one semester of foundation courses on campus. Then, your courses are offered at a local elementary school for two semesters before you student teach in your fourth semester.    

You graduate with a Bachelors of Art in Education and receive an Elementary Certificate 1^st-8^th with a Structured English Immersion Endorsement once you have completed all certification requirements.

The Elementary Education Program with a Bilingual Endorsement prepares you to teach in dual language, bilingual, SEI and traditional elementary classrooms. This option includes a concentration in Bilingual Education.

You complete the majority of your concentration prior to beginning the program. Then, you take a semester of foundation courses on campus. Then, during semesters two and three, your courses are offered at a local elementary school and include extensive classroom-based field experiences in bilingual, dual language, and/or SEI classrooms. Semester four is student teaching in bilingual, dual language, and/or SEI classrooms. 

You graduate with a Bachelors of Art in Education and receive an Elementary Certificate 1^st-8^th with a Bilingual Endorsement once you have completed all certification requirements.

Elementary Education with English as a Second Language (ESL) Endorsement prepares you to teach in multilingual first through eighth grade classrooms. This option may include a concentration in Bilingual Education or ESL and field placement in a dual language, ELL and/or SEI classrooms.  

In the first semester you take foundations courses on campus. Then, during semesters two and three, your courses are offered at a local elementary school and include extensive classroom-based field experiences in a dual language, ELL and/or SEI classrooms. Semester four is student teaching in a dual language, ELL and/or SEI classrooms.

You graduate with a Bachelors of Art in Education and receive an Elementary Certificate 1^st-8^th with an ESL Endorsement once you have completed all certification requirements.

The Elementary Education Program with two semesters of extensive fieldwork begins with two semesters of courses on campus. Then, for the next semester, your courses are offered at a local elementary school and then you student teach.

You graduate with a Bachelors of Art in Education and receive an Elementary Certificate 1^st-8^th with a Structured English Immersion Endorsement once you have completed all certification requirements.

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