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Michigan
State University provides teacher candidates with
opportunities to gain the critical knowledge and skills needed
to teach all children. The
College of Education is consistently ranked as one of the
leading colleges in the nation for pursuing a career in
education. This
ranking reflects, in part, the high esteem in which K-12
employers hold our graduates.
Teachers from MSU are particularly well prepared in
both subject matter knowledge, gained through strong
undergraduate academic coursework, and in classroom
instruction and management, gained through combined
bachelor's and post-baccalaureate education courses and
field-based experiences.
KEY ELEMENTS OF THE
PROGRAM
- Combination
of a baccalaureate degree, strong teaching major and/or
minor concentrations and teaching certification courses
followed by a full-year teaching internship in a public
school.
- Undergraduate
field experiences that build connections between the
theoretical principles of the craft of teaching and the
practical situations that teachers face.
- Dual
concerns for diversity and equity interwoven throughout
the required teacher education courses.
- Support
for learning to use technology in teaching.
- Time
spent working with special needs students in regular
classrooms.
- Full-year
internship with continued instruction and mentoring from
MSU faculty.
- Graduate-level
professional study during the internship, some credits of
which may be applied to a master's degree program.
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