Transcript Shear School of Education

Shear School of Education
Summer Orientation
Welcome!!
This meeting is only for students with majors in Early
Childhood Education, Childhood Education, and Childhood
Education with Special Education. Those seeking
Adolescence (Secondary) certifications should attend the info
sessions in the Liberal Arts major corresponding to your
certification area.
You may download this presentation from www.geneseo.edu/~rommel
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Xerox Center for Multicultural
Education
School of Education Majors
Leading to Initial Certification
Early Childhood with Childhood
Certification birth through grade 2 and
Certification grades 1 through 6
Childhood
Certification grades 1 through 6
Childhood with Special Education
Certification grades 1 through 6 and
Certification special education grades 1-6
SOE Application
All students interested in pursuing teaching
certification through SOE programs must
apply to the School of Education. The
application is through the SOE website at
http://www.geneseo.edu/sites/default/files/isu/education/SOE_Appl
ication.pdf
SOE Application
To apply to the School of Education, a student
must have
completed 30 hours of coursework at Geneseo,
completed a Service Learning project, and
have a GPA of 2.75.
Application deadlines are December 1st and June
1st of each year.
Service Learning
Each applicant to the SOE must complete
25 hours of Service Learning with children
of the ages (s)he will be certified to teach.
These hours must be done in at least 5
sessions, under the supervision of a certified
teacher.
Service Learning
Applicants must have the Application/Service
Learning packet to use during the Service
Learning experience.
Service Learning cannot be completed
“retroactively” (applicants may not use
experiences they had before obtaining the
Application/Service Learning packet or prior to
completion of their high school programs).
School of Education Course Blocks
Many courses in SOE programs are
“blocked” together to provide for efficiency
in planning field experiences and for
interdisciplinary teaching purposes.
Students progress through 5 blocks of
coursework, followed by a student teaching
semester.
School of Education Course Blocks
Students may enroll in only one block each semester, and
each block must be successfully completed before you may
enroll in the next block.
Every block is designed to build on the information
covered in previous blocks.
The blocks in each of the programs are different, so that
while a friend may have a 3-course Block IV, you may
have a 2-course Block IV.
School of Education Course Blocks
School of Education Field Experiences
Field experiences are part of each block beginning with
Block II.
Field experiences are designed to gradually introduce
teacher candidates to working with elementary or
preschool students.
Candidates begin by working one-on-one with students,
then progress to small group lessons, and finally to
teaching large groups and entire classrooms.
School of Education Field Experiences
Field experiences create scheduling restrictions for
candidates.
Each course with a field experience component requires
that candidates leave blocks of time free in their weekly
schedules. For example, some students must leave MWF
free from 11:30AM - 3:30PM, while others must leave TR
8AM - 12 noon free (this will depend on what block it is
and when the corresponding courses are taught).
Transportation
All students are required to provide their
own transportation to and from all field
visits, which begin in the sophomore year.
Students may arrange carpools, however
faculty may not.
Required Related Courses
Candidates in SOE programs must also complete
courses from other departments that are relevant to
the Education major:
Math 140 (Mathematics for Elementary Education I)
Math 141 (Mathematics for Elementary Education II)
Psych 215 (Child Development)
H&PE 350 (Health and Safety Issues in Schools)
Foreign Language Proficiency
Certification candidates may use American Sign Language
to complete the foreign language requirement of the
College, however it is not offered on a regular basis at
Geneseo.
Geneseo students must exhibit foreign language
proficiency at the 201 level (generally 3 semesters at the
college level) as a graduation requirement.
Students may take the college placement exam in foreign
language to attempt to place out of the requirement or to
determine which class they should enroll in at Geneseo.
Concentrations
Each candidate must choose an area of
concentration in which s/he will take a
minimum of 30 hours of (specified)
coursework in one of 16 liberal arts areas.
Available Concentrations
Art History
Dance
English
Environmental Studies
Foreign Languages (French or
Spanish)
Geography
History
Human Development (Early
Childhood ONLY)
Mathematics
Music
Natural Science (Biology,
Chemistry, Geological
Sciences, & Physics)
Political Science
Theatre
Urban Studies
Women’s Studies
Relationships Among Courses: Major, Core,
Concentration, and Required Related
Required
Related
Core
Concentration
MAJOR
Student Teaching
Some candidates will complete their student
teaching experiences in the fall semester while
others will complete them in the spring semester.
To qualify for student teaching, candidates must
have an overall GPA of 2.75, a major GPA of
2.75, and a concentration GPA of 2.75.
SOE Student Organizations
Council for Exceptional Children (CEC)
Elementary and Secondary Education Association
(ESEA)
Geneseo Organization for Deaf Awareness
(GODA)
Kappa Delta Pi Honor Society (KDP)
Young Children’s Council (YCC)
Xerox Center for Multicultural Teacher Education
SOE Student Organizations
Information about all these organizations
and others on campus will be available at
the Volunteer Fair in the fall. Watch your
email for announcements!
Reminder
Students are responsible for knowing the
rules expressed in the Undergraduate
Bulletin, Master Schedule each semester,
Student Teaching Handbook, and any other
official documents of the School of
Education.
Tests for Certification Required by
New York State
Educating All Students (EAS)
Academic Literacy Skills Test (ALST)
Content Specialty Tests (The number of
these you will take depends on your areas of
certification)
Education Teacher Performance
Assessment (EdTPA)
Before you come for your advisement
appointment today…
Plan to arrive 20 minutes early
Per your pre-advisement planning instructions, know your top 10
favorite sections of Intd 105: Freshman Writing;
your top 3 favorite selections in the core areas (Natural Science N/,
Fine Arts F/, Social Science S/, and Non-Western M/); and
think about what you are interested pursuing as a concentration.
During your appointment, we will generally try to schedule you into
classes in the following areas: Natural Science with lab; Math 140;
Fine Arts, Social Science and/or Non-Western; Intd 105; and a course
in your concentration area.
Some of you may already have credit for one or more of these courses
and we will then plan accordingly!
Time for Questions!
If you have questions between the time you leave today and the time
you return in August, please do not hesitate to contact one of us
Dr. Susan Salmon
[email protected]
585.245.5326
Dr. Katie Rommel-Esham
[email protected]
585.245.5325
Dr. Brian Morgan
[email protected]
585.245.5149
Mrs. Tracy Peterson
Assistant to the Dean
[email protected]
585.245.5443