PROGRAM TYPE
On Campus
DEGREES
BA, M.ED
Contact
Shelie Wells
Director of Education Programs and Professor of Practice of Education
(508) 849-3435
Education | BA
Program Overview
The teacher preparation programs at Anna Maria College aim to develop the student as a deeply committed, knowledgeable, and reflective practitioner. The programs are built on the idea that K–12 students are unique individuals, who are joined together as different members of a learning community. As learning community members, there is a responsibility to respect, support, and learn from each other. Both the individual and social dimensions of learning are stressed. The college remains committed to providing scholarship and grant resources to keep the overall cost of teaching licensure affordable for students seeking to work as teachers in the education community.
Curriculum Highlights
EC - Explorations in Natural Sciences
RequiredCourses approved to meet this requirement focus on selected elements of the Natural Sciences, with particular emphasis on processes and mechanisms that underlie individual disciplines, including earth sciences, cosmology, biology, chemistry, physics, ecology, health sciences, and anthropology.
3 CreditsEC - Explorations in Western Cultures and Historyy
RequiredApproved courses explore focus on the study of values, ideas, self-perceptions and aspirations byexamining human creative expression during a specific period of Western history.
3 CreditsEC - Explorations in Societies of the World
RequiredThe courses in the Societies of the World category seek to acquaint students with values, customs, and institutions of other countries, and to explore how different beliefs, behaviors, and ways of organizing society come into being.
3 CreditsEC - Explorations in Creativity and Imagination
RequiredCourses identified as an Experience of Creativity, Imagination, and Beauty will contribute to the development of aesthetic responsiveness.
3 CreditsEC - Explorations in United States and the World
RequiredThe influence of the United States in the world is unprecedented in many areas, such as culture, military power, scientific development, and economics.
3 CreditsEC - Explorations in Global Dynamics
RequiredThe world has become more complex in virtually all dimensions. Economies are increasingly interdependent: no large company exists with its workforce, assets, raw materials and customer base in a single country.
3 CreditsEC - Explorations in Writing for Career and Creativity
RequiredAnna Maria College recognizes that the ability to write effectively is a basic and increasingly important skill for college graduates, regardless of their major or career plans.
3 CreditsEDU 190 - Education, Culture & Society
RequiredExamines cultural, social, and global questions and values in relation to curriculum, the teaching learning process, and educational purpose and philosophy. Includes topics in social and cultural diversity, multiculturalism, modernism, holism, democratic values, and learning communities.
3 CreditsCourse Of Study
Program Learning Outcomes
Our goal is to cultivate educators who are supportive colleagues, maintain a high level of competence and integrity in their teaching practices, use feedback to improve their performance, embrace the diversity of their students, and ultimately serve as positive adult role models in their school community. Through coursework and real and relevant application, students will prepare for Initial Teacher Licensure as approved by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE).
Students will:
- Demonstrate sound knowledge and understanding of the subject matter and the pedagogy it requires by consistently engaging students in learning experiences that enable them to acquire complex knowledge and subject-specific skills and vocabulary, such that they are able to make and assess evidence-based claims and arguments.
- Develop well-structured lessons with challenging, measurable objectives and appropriate student engagement strategies, pacing, sequence, activities, materials, resources, technologies, and grouping.
- Organize and analyzes results from a variety of assessments to determine progress toward intended outcomes and uses these findings to adjust practice and identify and/or implement appropriate differentiated interventions and enhancements for students.
- Uses appropriate practices, including tiered instruction and scaffolds, to accommodate differences in learning styles, needs, interests, and levels of readiness, including those of students with disabilities and English language learners.
- Uses rituals, routines, and appropriate responses that create and maintain a safe physical and intellectual environment where students take academic risks and most behaviors that interfere with learning are prevented.
- Effectively model and reinforces ways that students can master challenging material through effective effort, rather than having to depend on innate ability.
- Regularly reflects on the effectiveness of lessons, units, and interactions with students, both individually and with colleagues, and uses insights gained to improve practice and student learning.
5th year Masters
Students in the Anna Maria College Undergraduate Education Program can take three 5th year option courses towards their M.Ed. These courses will be decided in consultation with your advisor and will meet specific program licensure requirements. All educators in Massachusetts need an M.Ed. within five years of their first employment. The 5th year option program will help you attain your M.Ed. in a shorter time to obtain this goal.
Accreditation
The Anna Maria Education Program is an Approved Licensure Program by the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. We offer Initial Licensure in Elementary Education and Early Childhood Education at the undergraduate level. On the graduate level we offer Initial licensure in Elementary Education, Early Childhood Education, Moderate Disabilities PreK-8, and Moderate Disabilities 5-12. Add-a-License is another option for candidates who currently have Initial Licensure.
Teacher Preparation
Meet Our Faculty
Diane Carroll
Assistant Professor of Practice of Education and Field Placement Coordinator
Erin Decoste
Instructor and Moderate Disabilities Program Coordinator
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