Elementary Teacher Education (ADT)

The Associate in Arts in Elementary Teacher Education for Transfer Degree offers students a breadth of study across disciplines. The courses are designed to inspire and prepare students, future educators, to teach in urban classrooms, to learn essential professional knowledge including professional teaching standards and ethics, to conduct fieldwork in order to learn how to meet the diverse needs of students and roles of the teacher, and to gain a broad foundation of knowledge across the disciplines that will be necessary to teach elementary students. Students also develop critical reading, writing, and thinking skills that are pertinent to working in the era of a standards based classroom instruction.