Elementary Education
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Elementary Education, B.S.
The Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education is offered through the College of Education at MTSU. The major in Elementary Education (grades K-5) is designed to prepare teachers for elementary schools. It requires General Education, major, professional education, and enhanced student teaching courses.
The Elementary Education program specializes in preparing future educators for teaching learners in kindergarten through 5th grade. Throughout this initial licensure teacher preparation program, students are trained in content knowledge, instructional and assessment strategies, classroom management, and other relevant topics and practices. Students are provided opportunities throughout their programs to engage in experiential learning in elementary classrooms. Students enrolled in the K-5 program will discover the joy of teaching elementary students through a curriculum designed to engage them in the learning process.
News Briefs
Field Based Experiences
Students in the elementary program receive many unique experiences that enable them to become effective teachers. This program partners with many elementary schools that provide strong mentor teachers to guide, model, and support teacher candidates. Homer Pittard Campus School is one school that partners with the elementary program. Early in the program, students observe in classrooms learning as much as they can about effective learning environments and teaching strategies. As students progress to Residency 1, some students complete this intense field placement at Campus School, spending two days per week working alongside mentor teachers and their students at this historic school that has a long tradition of supporting MTSU teacher candidates.
Family Literacy and Math Nights
Each semester, elementary students and their instructors plan and implement Family Literacy and Math Nights in local public schools. These experiences provide meaningful opportunities for students to thoughtfully plan engaging activities to help families know more about the academic standards addressed in school and fun ways to help their children achieve those standards. Families and their children spend an evening at the school learning with MTSU students and school staff. These enriching opportunities allow our teacher candidates to practice interacting and teaching students, their siblings, and the adults in their lives.
News Briefs
Field Based Experiences
Students in the elementary program receive many unique experiences that enable them to become effective teachers. This program partners with many elementary schools that provide strong mentor teachers to guide, model, and support teacher candidates. Homer Pittard Campus School is one school that partners with the elementary program. Early in the program, students observe in classrooms learning as much as they can about effective learning environments and teaching strategies. As students progress to Residency 1, some students complete this intense field placement at Campus School, spending two days per week working alongside mentor teachers and their students at this historic school that has a long tradition of supporting MTSU teacher candidates.
Family Literacy and Math Nights
Each semester, elementary students and their instructors plan and implement Family Literacy and Math Nights in local public schools. These experiences provide meaningful opportunities for students to thoughtfully plan engaging activities to help families know more about the academic standards addressed in school and fun ways to help their children achieve those standards. Families and their children spend an evening at the school learning with MTSU students and school staff. These enriching opportunities allow our teacher candidates to practice interacting and teaching students, their siblings, and the adults in their lives.
Individuals trained to teach bring a desirable range of expertise and creativity to planning and administrative roles. Graduates completing their teacher preparation at MTSU are found in public and private school classrooms throughout Tennessee and in many other states. In addition to classroom teaching, other career options include
- Agency and administrative work
- Community and foundation work
- Consulting, professional development, and teacher training
- Education policy development
- Education marketing and research
- Private tutoring
Among the employers of MTSU alumni are
- Anderson County Schools
- Bedford County Schools
- Cannon County Schools
- Carroll County Schools
- Cheatham Co Schools
- Coffee County Schools
- Collierville Christian Academy
- Crockett County Schools
- Cumberland County Schools
- DeKalb County Schools
- Dickson County Schools
- Dyer County Schools
- Fayette County Schools
- Fayetteville City Schools
- Franklin Special School District
- Giles County Schools
- Grundy County Schools
- Hamilton County Schools
- Hardeman County Schools
- Hickman County Schools
- Kids Connection
- Knox County Schools
- Lawrence County Schools
- Lebanon Special School District
- Lewis County Schools
- Lincoln County Schools
- Macon County Schools
- Madison County Schools
- Manchester City Schools
- Marion County Schools
- Marshall County Schools
- Maury County Schools
- McNairy County Schools
- Memphis and Shelby County Schools
- Metro Action Commission, Nashville
- Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools
- Middle Tennessee Christian School, Murfreesboro
- Montgomery County Schools
- Moore County Schools
- Murfreesboro City Schools
- Perry County Schools
- Providence Christian Academy, Murfreesboro
- Robertson County Schools
- Rutherford County Schools
- Sequatchie County Schools
- Sumner County Schools
- The Webb School, Bell Buckle
- Trousdale County Schools
- Tullahoma City Schools
- Warren County Schools
- Wayne County Schools
- White County Schools
- Williamson County Schools
- Wilson County Schools
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