B.A. in Secondary Education
This program requires one year of full-time study. It prepares students for careers as teachers of single subjects in the secondary school. Students who wish to teach at the secondary level must complete a major in the subject they wish to teach as well as a major in secondary education. Teaching tracks are available within the art, English, mathematics, chemistry, and business majors. Teaching tracks require from 40 to 60 semester hours of coursework, which may be fewer than the number of hours of course work required for other tracts in the same major.
Subjects for which our teacher education program prepares students for initial licensure are: art, English, mathematics, biology, chemistry, physics, business, and speech and theater. We also offer additional endorsements to licensed teaches in all of the above plus general science.
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-BasedSM 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-BasedSM 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.