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Antioch's undergraduate teacher preparation program provides opportunities for those with experience in school settings, or in work with children to obtain a bachelor's degree and qualify for elementary teacher certification. The program incorporates the values and competencies of Antioch's B.A. in Liberal Studies (a bachelor completion program) and teacher preparation.
Antioch's program is offered full time to a cohort of 20 to 25 students. It integrates courses in teaching methods, classroom management strategies and all content areas needed for your elementary teaching certification.
Orientation
New students attend orientation prior to the first week of class.
Courses
Students complete the following courses during the first four quarters:
- Child Development & Educational Psychology (3)
- Children's Adolescent's Literature (3)
- Curriculum, Instruction & Assessment (3)
- Developing Math Literacy (3)
- Literature: Exploring Lives Through Story (3)
- Mathematics I (3)
- Mathematics II (3)
- Meaning and Practice of History (3)
- Multicultural Perspectives in Education (3)
- Reflective Practice (3)
- Schooling in America (3)
- Teaching Life Science & Lab (3)
- Teaching Physical Science & Lab (3)
- Teaching Social Studies (3)
- Technology in American Society and Education (3)
- The Joy of Writing (3)
You complete the following courses during the last four quarters:
- Arts & the Imagination (3)
- Children With Special Gifts & Needs (3)
- Classroom Management & Practice (3)
- Current Assessment Practices (3)
- English as a Second Language (3)
- Field Experience (3)
- Health, Fitness & Safety Education (3)
- Literacy I (3)
- Literacy II (3)
- School Law & Educational Policy (3)
- Student Teaching (12)
- Teaching Earth & Space Science & Lab (3)
- Teaching the Arts (3)
Field Experience
Before student teaching, you are required to participate in field experiences in a school classroom during the day, which is organized by the field placement coordinator in conjunction with faculty. Throughout the ten-week quarter, you fulfill 20 hours of observation.
Student Teaching
You complete a student teaching internship during the last quarter of the program. Passing scores on the appropriate Praxis II exam are required prior to student teaching. Although Antioch cannot promise to accommodate your school of preference, the field placement coordinator will make every attempt to do so. Student teaching generally takes 10 to 12 weeks to complete. At the end of the quarter, students present information about their student teaching experience to peers and faculty.
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