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# Early Childhood Education
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## Why Elms for your Early Childhood Education degree?
* 100% employment rate (class of 2019)
* Your initial teaching license qualifies you to begin teaching in Massachusetts and more than 40 states, islands, and territories.
* Specialize in pre-kindergarten to grade 2.
* Complete fieldwork in local schools, including working with students with special needs
## The early childhood program at Elms College prepares you to teach students from pre-kindergarten through grade two.
As a candidate for your initial teaching license in Massachusetts, you complete rigorous coursework and do fieldwork in local schools with young children with and without special needs, in local schools. You leave Elms prepared to teach all areas of the curriculum and make adaptations for students with special needs.
A degree in early childhood education will prepare you to work in collaboration with parents, colleagues, and educational specialists, such as speech and physical therapists, to ensure that your students have the best experience possible when they enter your classroom. The Elms College preparation program for early childhood teachers exceeds state standards for both knowledge and performance and gives prospective early childhood teachers a competitive edge in seeking employment.
### Early Childhood Education students will be able to:
* Have an understanding of typical and atypical physical, cognitive, language, and social/emotional development of children with and without special needs, and use this understanding to understand students’ needs and interests. This allows them to plan and present developmentally-appropriate lessons and learning activities, and to determine the progress children are making.
* Draw on subject matter knowledge in teaching reading and language arts, children’s literature, mathematics, science, social studies, health, physical education, and the arts to provide developmentally-appropriate learning experiences that respond to children’s interests, and challenge them to construct an understanding of the world in which they live, through play and active learning.
* Communicate clearly and respectfully with children, families, colleagues, and members of the community, and work with them to benefit children’s learning and development.
* Organize and manage a classroom to provide time, space, materials, and support necessary for a stimulating and safe learning environment.
* Reflect on teaching and learning, and use reflections to meet legal and moral responsibilities for professional growth and service to children and their families.
* Meet state licensure standards for communication and literacy skills, subject matter knowledge, teaching reading and language arts, and performance.
## Curriculum
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Initial License in Early Childhood (PreK-2)
 **Note:** The early childhood 14-week practicum is completed at two sites: a public school preschool inclusion classroom accredited by the National Academy of NAEYC (National Association of the Education for Young Children), and in a first- or second-grade classroom that includes students with and without special needs and is accredited by the National Academy, or adheres to NAEYC’s guidelines for developmentally-appropriate practices.
#### Major Requirements (72 credits)
| Course # | Course Name | # of Credit Hours |
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| EDU 1000 | Introduction to Schooling and Education | 3 |
| EDU 1008 | Writing for Educators | 3 |
| MAT 1002 | Numbers & Operations | 3 |
| MAT 1014 | Geometry and Measurement | 3 |
| PSY 2104 | Children’s Learning and Development | 3 |
| EDU 3002 | Social Studies and Science Methods | 3 |
| EDU 3004 | Methods of Teaching Mathematics | 3 |
| EDU 3101 | Writing Workshop | 3 |
| EDU 3109 | Students With Special Needs | 3 |
| EDU 3201 | Curriculum for Early Childhood Inclusion Settings | 3 |
| EDU 3402 | Assessment of Students | 3 |
| EDU 3600 | Seminar in Professional Education | 3 |
| EDU 3704 | Issues of Diversity in Children’s Literature | 3 |
| EDU 4106 | Technology in Education | 3 |
| EDU 4200A | Early Childhood: Teacher of Students With and Without Disabilities (Pre-K-2) Initial Practicum | 12 |
| EDU 4203 | Pre-Practicum | 5 |
| EDU 4204 | Pre-Practicum Seminar | 1 |
| EDU 4308 | No Fault Classroom Management | 3 |
| EDU 4901 | Educating English Language Learners | 3 |
| EDU 4908 | Developing Language & Literacy I | 3 |
| EDU 4909 | Developing Language and Literacy II | 3 |
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We are a private, Catholic, coeducational liberal arts college founded in 1928 by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Springfield, Massachusetts. Elms College is located in Chicopee, Massachusetts, and grants associate’s, bachelor’s, master’s, and doctor of nursing practice degrees through its  and also offers a variety of .
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# Education Studies
## Why Elms for your Education Studies degree?
This concentration differs from the other education tracks. You choose to defer earning your initial teaching license until graduate school. The benefit is that you have more flexibility to complete your content area requirements, or add a second major or minor.
## Education Studies Major
The education studies major is not designed to provide licensure.  Students who choose this major and may plan to teach at some point will have to complete their licensure at the graduate level.  They will also need to have completed at least 45 credits to be eligible to choose this major.  This is not a major that can be elected by first year students.
## Education Studies Minor
The Education Studies minor is designed for students who might want to explore the field of professional education, without committing to a licensure program.
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The education studies major is not designed to provide licensure. Students who choose this major and may plan to teach at some point will have to complete their licensure at the graduate level. They will also need to have completed at least 45 credits to be eligible to choose this major. This is not a major that can be elected by first year students.
#### Education Studies major (33 credits)
| EDU 1000 | Intro to Schooling & Education | 3 |
| PSY 2104 | Children’s Learning & Development | 3 |
| EDU 3109 | Intro to Students with Special Needs | 3 |
|  | 21 credits (7 courses) would be chosen with the student’s advisor from courses in the licensure area to which the student might eventually aspire. These courses would be at the 2000-and-above (formerly 200-and-above) levels | 3 |
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#### Education Studies minor (18 credits)
|  | 6 credits (2 courses) would be chosen with the student’s advisor from courses in the licensure area to which the student might eventually aspire. These courses would be at the 2000-and-above (formerly 200-and-above) levels |  |
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# Elementary Education
## Why Elms for your Elementary Education degree?
* Specialize in grades 1 – 6.
## Introduce learners in grades 1-6 to a variety of subjects and core reading and writing skills.
Elms prepares initially-licensed teachers in Massachusetts for grades 1-6. Elementary teachers help shape young students into the learners they will become. This is why the elementary education program at Elms College offers specialized, rigorous classroom instruction and personal guidance as you do fieldwork in area schools. Elementary teachers draw on the content of the relevant curriculum frameworks to plan activities and sequential units of study that are standards-based. Elementary Education students practice a balanced approach to reading and writing and employ a variety of teaching techniques in content-area instruction.
Elms College students are competent, caring individuals who understand their legal and moral responsibilities to all children and seek resources from colleagues, families, and the community to enhance their learning. They reflect critically upon their teaching experiences and identify areas for further professional development. We train teachers who are competent and caring, understand their responsibilities to all children, involve their pupils’ families in the learning process, and challenge their students to achieve their highest potential.
### Elementary Education students will be able to:
* Use subject matter knowledge in reading and language arts, children’s and young adult literature, mathematics, history, social science, science, health, physical education, and the arts to plan curriculum and instruction.
* Communicate high standards and expectations when beginning and carrying out lessons that employ a variety of teaching techniques and reading and writing strategies.
* Promote achievement by all students, without exception.
* Create an environment that is conducive to learning.
* Meet legal and moral responsibilities for professional growth.
* Reflect critically upon teaching and learning.
* Meet state licensure standards for communication and literacy skills, subject matter knowledge, foundations of reading, and performance assessment.
## Quick Info
Our education students get exposed to classroom teaching as early as their first semester.
Initial teaching licenses earned at Elms qualify candidates to begin teaching in Massachusetts and more than 40 states, islands, and territories.
#### Click to view course requirements for the Elementary Education (B.A,).
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Initial License in Elementary Education (1-6)
#### Major Requirements (66 credits)
| MAT 1002 | Numbers and Operations | 3 |
| MAT 1024 | Algebra and Fractions | 3 |
| EDU 3109 | Students with Special Needs | 3 |
| EDU 4250A | Elementary (1-6); Initial Practicum | 12 |
| EDU 4908 | Language & Literacy Development I | 3 |
| EDU 4909 | Language & Literacy Development II | 3 |