Elementary Education (B.A.)
The elementary and secondary education programs offered by the University are approved by the Bureau of Practitioner Development and Licensure of the Iowa Department of Education. Graduates of these programs may be licensed to teach in public or private schools in Iowa and be eligible for teaching credentials in all 50 states.
This program requires one year of full-time study for a subject matter specialist and one-and-one-half years of full-time study for an elementary school classroom teacher. A major in elementary education focuses on teaching in the elementary school and developing leadership ability. Students may be prepared as traditional elementary school teachers or as specialists in one subject area. Both programs develop effective teachers and prepare students for graduate study related to elementary education. Structured into the programs are systematically guided experiences of practicing teaching in elementary school classrooms.
The subject areas in which elementary specialists may be prepared for initial licensure are: art, language arts, mathematics, and science. We also offer additional endorsements to licensed teachers in all of the above subjects.
Our teacher education programs are approved by the State of Iowa and incorporate all regional and national standards. But only in this program can you become an expert in Consciousness-Based education, the most successful system of education in the world. This approach awakens your students’ total brain potential, so that they are naturally focused and eager to learn. This expansion of creative intelligence saves them from making mistakes in life and sets them on a path of growing happiness and achievement.
You will grow in the qualities of an ideal teacher — confidence, creativity, resourcefulness, vitality, and kindness. You’ll learn to cultivate the precious potential of the world’s children and prepare them to lead the world to a better time — where every school in the world radiates lasting peace to its community.
Minor in Educational Foundations
This program offers a broad understanding of the psychological, philosophical, and sociological foundations of education. Students learn the principles of modern social science and of Consciousness-Based education which guide the design of curricula and classroom instruction. They also have frequent opportunities to view model education programs in regional elementary and secondary school classrooms including the award-winning Maharishi School.
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