Bayh College of Education
Elementary, Early and Special Education
Welcome to the department of Elementary, Early and Special Education website. Our strong reputation provides you with enhanced opportunities for obtaining employment. Our programs are fully accredited by National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE).
As an undergraduate student in one of our programs you will:
Be better prepared for a career in education. You will be
provided extensive filed experiences throughout the
programs, beginning during your first semester and
continuing through your student teaching experience. From
the first class you take in our undergraduate program(s),
you will be working with children either in a public school
classroom, our early childhood center, or at a public
agency.
Be provided with a full semester of
professional experience prior to student teaching. Through
our unique TOTAL (Teachers of
Tomorrow Advancing Learning) program
undergraduate majors in elementary education and elementary
/ special education have the opportunity to spend three to
five days a week in an elementary classroom with a trained
coaching teacher before their student teaching experience.
Visit our TOTAL section
to learn more about the Program
Receive a full semester of student teaching experience following the TOTAL semester. You may choose where you would like to complete your student teaching experience.
Have the opportunity to personally experience another culture through international student teaching programs or experience student teaching on an Indian Reservation in the far west.
Have the opportunity to add additional areas to your initial teaching license through our "pathway" options. These include early childhood minor, reading minor, English as a new language, middle school math endorsement and special education major.
As a graduate student in one of our programs you will have the opportunity to choose between completing a Masters in Elementary Education or Special Education. Please click on the "Programs" link on the left for more information.
Information about PRAXIS can be found here
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Videos
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News
Learning Hands on Taiwan
Irish Education: Students broaden learning in Ireland
Students volunteer to renovate Greentown school
Bauserman receives Community - Based Learning and
Scholarship Award
University honors faculty: Liu, McEntire receive President's
Medal
Tomorrow's Teacher: Program Allows High School Seniors to
Explore Studying Education
Child's Play: University Students get Kindergartners excited
about reading
Hedgehog gets Meadows students excited about reading
Accolades
Promotions and Awards
- Dr. Karen Liu - President's Medal
- Dr. Robin Burden – Special Education to Associate Professor
- Dr. Lisa Cutter - Elementary Education to Associate Professor
- Good job to student Teachers Sarah Illingworth and Karen Wenning who did a great job of blogging about their trip with Eva Kor to visit the Holocaust camps in Poland.
- Dr. Karen Liu, Early Childhood, has been invited to serve as a member of the committee that will review the Early Childhood Generalists Standards. Dr. Liu was selected from a pool of over 500 exemplary applicants to serve as part of a 15 person committee by the Certification Council of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.
- In November, 2011, Kathryn L. Bauserman received the Judy Richardson Literacy as a Living Legend Award from the Association of Literacy Educators and Researchers. The award was presented to Dr. Bauserman for her work with the Sycamore Readers and Reading Resort after school tutoring programs.