Program Description

This program aims to help prospective teachers to develop as researchers and reflective practitioners who are committed to work in urban schools and to using the city as a core resource for their learning. The NYU Childhood Teacher Certification Program is designed to engage prospective teachers in thoughtful discussion of and interaction around some of the critical educational issues of our time especially issues of developmental, linguistic, cultural, and racial diversity and educational equity. Each course in the program is tied either to fieldwork or student teaching thus providing prospective teachers with opportunities to question and reflect on theory in action and to work with other professionals and with families. While the program is framed as a stand-alone certificate program for those who wish to teach in grades 1 - 6, there are several points of overlap with the NYU Certification Program in Childhood Special Education. Thus, prospective teachers can obtain early childhood special education certification by taking additional credits including a semester of student teaching.

I. General Pedagogical Core (16 credits)

E27.2010 Inquiries into Teaching and Learning III (4) (min. 15 hrs. of field experience)
E25.2021 Child Development (3) (min. 20 hrs. of field experience)
E25.2070 Foundations of Curriculum (3) (min. 15 hrs. of field experience)
E25.2077 Language and Literacy in the Early Grades (3)
E25.2078 Language and Literacy for the Upper Grades (3)

II. Pedagogical Content Knowledge Core (20 credits)

E12.2115 Teaching Elementary School Mathematics: Foundations and Concept Development (2)
E12.2116 Teaching Elementary School Mathematics: Problem Solving and Procedures (2)
E14.2009 Science Experiences in the Elementary School I (2)
E14.2010 Science Experiences in the Elementary School II (2)
E25.2055 Integrated Arts in Childhood Education II (2)
E25.2011 Multicultural Perspectives in Social Studying (2)
E25.2359 Integrative Seminar I: Study of Teaching (2)
E75.2025 Developing Strategies That Support Children's Social Behavior (3)
E75.2161 Education of Children with Special Needs in Childhood Settings (3)

III. Student Teaching (4 credits)

E25.2251 Supervised Student Teaching in Childhood Education I (2)
E25.2252 Supervised Student Teaching in Childhood Education II (2)

IV. Culminating Experience (3 credits)

E25.2010 Integrative Seminar II: Study of Teaching (3)

V. Social Responsibilities of Teachers (0 credit)

E27.2999 Drug and Alcohol Education/Child Abuse Identification/School Violence: Social Responsibilities of Teachers(0)

Sample Program of Study