Adolescent Education (English), B.A.
Program Overview:
Students who pursue a bachelor’s degree in Adolescent Education in New York from St. Francis College will get the personalized attention needed to become effective educators and the field experience needed to become instructional leaders. SFC professors have decades of New York City school experience as both teachers and administrators, and, even in a tight teaching market, graduates of the program are landing jobs at graduation.
Our technology-rich professional studies programs incorporate theory, field experience, supported pedagogy and a semester of full-time, supervised student teaching. Adolescent education major candidates accepted into the Teacher Education program prepare for Initial New York State Certification in either Childhood Education or Adolescence Education.
Underlying the focused, outcomes-driven high school education degree curriculum is SFC’s robust General Education Program, which is the cornerstone of SFC and affirms its mission to graduate educated, well-rounded individuals who are prepared to enter the workforce and work to change and culturally diversify the world.
PROGRAM LEARNING OBJECTIVES
PROGRAM LEARNING OBJECTIVES
PLO 1: Teacher candidates demonstrate the ability to recognize the range of individual differences in how students learn and customize instruction to accommodate such diversity.
PLO 2: Teacher candidates demonstrate the ability to develop culturally responsive curriculum and instruction that draws on linguistic and cultural diversity, as well as family background and community values as assets that can be used to promote learning.
PLO 3: Teacher candidates demonstrate the ability to maintain an inclusive learning environment that promotes positive social interactions, acceptance, collaboration, mutual respect, multicultural awareness, an appreciation of diversity, and a concern for others.
PLO 4: Teacher candidates demonstrate an understanding of the central concepts, principles, tools of inquiry, and structures of the disciplinary areas that they teach and create meaningful learning experiences to ensure learner mastery of the content.
PLO 5: Teacher candidates demonstrate the ability to make content knowledge relevant to learners by connecting it to local, state, national, and global issues.
PLO 6: Teacher candidates demonstrate the ability to align lessons with NYS curricular standards for college readiness and successful performance on state-mandated tests.
PLO 7: Teacher candidates demonstrate the ability to use a variety of instructional strategies to engage, motivate; promote critical thinking, self-directed learning, creativity, and collaborative problem solving to extend learners’ understanding of the content areas.
PLO 8: Teacher candidates demonstrate the ability to integrate new technologies across content areas to deliver instruction in meaningful ways and add value to the overall learning experience.
PLO 9: Teacher candidates demonstrate an understanding of the uses, strengths, and limitations of various forms of assessment practices to document learner progress and adjust instruction as needed.
PLO 10: Teacher candidates support the academic, social, and emotional development of all students through dispositions such as acceptance, empathy, caring, fairness, student advocacy, and the belief that all students can learn.
PLO 11: Teacher candidates demonstrate the ability to be self-reflective and use this knowledge to seek critical feedback, enhance their repertoire of teaching skills, and pursue professional development opportunities in the best interest of learners.
PLO 12: Teacher candidates demonstrate the ability to foster positive interactions and collaborate with progressional colleagues and school personnel in support of student learning, development, and well-being.
PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS
PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS
Code | Title | Credits |
| General Education Program |
|
FS | Understanding College | 1 |
WR 1 & OC 1 | Writing and Presentation | 6 |
QR 1 | Mathematics | 4 |
ITML | Information Literacy, Media, and Research | 3 |
HCE | Creative Voices across Cultures | 6 |
SEH | Individual and Societies | 6 |
WHG | Our World, Past and Present | 6 |
FH | Personal Wellness | 2-3 |
RS | Religion and Culture | 3 |
| Education Major |
|
ED-1201 | Foundations of Education | 3 |
ED-2020 | Educational Psychology | 3 |
ED-2100 | Assessment and Evaluation | 3 |
PSY-2201 | Developmental Psychology I | 3 |
SED-2040 | Introduction to Special Education | 3 |
ED-4350 | Literacy Instruction for English Language Learners | 3 |
ED-4990 | Supervised Student Teaching | 6 |
AED-2200 | Methods of Instruction in Secondary Education | 3 |
AED-3320 | Literature in the Content Area (grades 7-12) Instruction | 3 |
AED-3340 | Methods of Instruction in Secondary English | 3 |
| Select two foreign language courses in sequence | 6 |
| Select four LWP courses 2000-2999 | 12 |
| Select five LWP courses 3000 or higher | 15 |
| Any LWP seminar course 4000-4999 | 3 |
| Liberal Arts | 3 |
| Total credits | 122 |
CURRICULUM HIGHLIGHTS
CURRICULUM HIGHLIGHTS
• Students have the opportunity to become inducted into Kappa Delta Pi, the International Honor Society in Education, through our Xi Rho Chapter.
• All students are required to take the built-in Supervised Student Teaching semester where they directly engage with students in P-12 classroom environments.
• Education coursework prepares students to be leading practitioners, including our EC-3000 Emergent Literacy course which grounds our students in the science of reading research.
CAREER OPPORTUNITIES
CAREER OPPORTUNITIES
Graduates of the St. Francis College Education Department have pursued careers and graduate programs in the following areas:
Early Childhood and Childhood Education teacher
Adolescent Education teacher of English, Social Studies, Mathematics, Biology, or Chemistry
School Administrator
School Psychologist
Curriculum Developer
Education Consultant
Education Policy Analyst
Librarian
Educational Technologist
Career Counselor
College Admissions Counselor
Reading/Literacy Specialist
Mathematics Coach