Program Requirements
Required Courses
Two classes are required for the middle school endorsement. These courses are available to both undergraduate and graduate students; undergraduate course are 3000-level, graduate courses are 5000-level. Click on a course title below to read the description for that class.
EDUC 5311 is for graduate students-at-large and graduate students in our program receiving licensure to teach at the elementary (K–9) level. If you are a Type 10 (K–12) or secondary license candidate, you will have a different middle school methods and materials course as part of your sequence.
A study of the physical, intellectual, emotional, and social development of the young adolescent. Examination of developmental issues that impact the middle and senior high school, its philosophy, and its practices which are responsive to the adolescent, both cognitively and affectively.
A study of the physical, intellectual, emotional, and social development of the young adolescents. Examination of developmental issues that impact the middle and senior high school, its philosophy, and its practices responsive to the adolescent, both cognitively and affectively.
Emphasis on the middle school classroom and its structure (curriculum and instruction) of the young adolescent. Examination of curriculum development, teaching and instructional strategies, support of students as changing young people, parent and community development, service learning, advisor-advisee programs, block scheduling, learning communities, homework and assessment, exploratories, teaming, reading and writing across the curriculum, and other current middle school issues that impact curriculum and instruction for the 10 to 15 year old. Pedagogy is based on middle school philosophy, curriculum, instruction, and instructional models for designing and teaching developmentally appropriate programs including content area reading instruction.
For full course descriptions view our academic catalog.