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We believe that faculty and prospective educators should be liberally educated professional persons who can effectively communicate with students, colleagues and parents. They model and hold themselves responsible for designing, implementing, and evaluating instruction that promotes for all students: mastery of a dynamic body of knowledge, creativity, problem solving, active learning, intellectual excitement, lifelong reflective learning, cooperation and collaboration, responsible work habits, wellness, respect for and integration of individual, group and cultural differences, and civic responsibility for an interdependent and just world. They strive to promote learning in a developmentally appropriate, technologically rich and affirming environment.

At Marywood, you'll begin field experience in teaching during freshman year, find supportive faculty and first-rate facilities dedicated to your development as a teacher -- and benefit from a program whose graduates are actively recruited.

Teacher education has been a vital part of Marywood's tradition for more than 75 years -- but that doesn't mean you'll find an "old school" approach here. Instead, you'll benefit from an innovative, personalized program that balances the theory and research you discuss on campus with practical application of that knowledge in classrooms on campus (day care and preschool), and in the local area (kindergarten through grade 12).

Effective teachers today need a complex set of skills. Your professors in Marywood's Department of Undergraduate Education will help you develop your abilities to teach effectively by using a variety of instructional techniques to foster creativity, to actively engage your students in problem-solving and other learning activities, and to create an intellectually exciting learning environment. The knowledge you gain in Marywood's program and put to use when you become a teacher will have a direct impact on the future: you'll learn how to encourage your students to be lifelong learners, cooperate and collaborate with each other, develop responsibility, respect individual and cultural differences, apply the principles of wellness to their daily lives, and understand their civic responsibility for an interdependent and just world. You'll graduate prepared to live responsibly in an interdependent world -- the goal of every Marywood student's education -- and prepared to help your students do so as well!

Faculty

You'll find a group of professional, caring faculty members in education, committed to helping you become the best teacher you can be. Faculty teach the education courses, advise you on course selection and research projects, and still find time to keep up-to-date on current educational strategies through their own research.

Kathleen O'Neill Ruthkosky

Rosemary Baldi

Barbara J. Burkhouse

Gwynne Gilbert

Joyce Holmes

Sister Marilyn Muro

Sister Frances Russell

Facilities and Technology

The education program benefits from Marywood's commitment to provide all students with state-of-the-art technology. The department maintains a curriculum laboratory of texts, manipulative materials, and software designed for K-12 programs. You'll find a media center with sophisticated resources, including interactive video for instruction and computer labs offering access to the Internet. If your goal is to work with infants, toddlers, and preschool-age children, you'll be pleased to know that you can observe and teach right on campus, in Marywood's own childcare and preschool programs!

The Regional Advantage: Putting Knowledge to Work

You'll find plenty of opportunities in the northeastern Pennsylvania region to test the knowledge you gain at Marywood. You'll complete at least seven semesters of field experience in rural, urban, and suburban schools. This experience includes two student teaching placements in schools chosen from a diverse selection within 50 miles of the University. If that sounds like a lot to chose from and to arrange, don't worry: the Office of Professional Education Field Experience coordinates all field placements and student teaching assignments.

Areas of Teacher Certification Preparation

Marywood's education programs are accredited by the prestigious National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) and approved by the Pennsylvania Department of Education. The programs leading to undergraduate degrees with professional education certification are designed for students like you, who wish to excel in their teaching careers. Preparation is intended to qualify graduates to seek certification in 15 areas.

Areas of Certification

Art (K-12)
English (7-12)
Mathematics (7-12)
Biology (7-12)
Foreign Language (K-12)
Music (K-12)
Communication (7-12)
General Science (7-12)
Social Science (7-12)
Early Childhood Ed. (N-3)
Health/Physical Ed. (K-12)
Speech Correction (K-12)
Elementary Ed. (K-6)
Home Economics (K-12)
Special Education (K-12)

Requirements of the Program

Marywood's education department has major responsibility for preparing students in elementary education (grades K-6) and early childhood education (N-3). The department cooperates with many other departments to offer the professional education components for prospective teachers of the disciplines listed above. Elementary education students at Marywood earn 65-66 credits in the core liberal arts and skills curriculum. Additionally, they complete 48 professional education credits and 18-24 credits in a minor of their choice, including: art, communication arts, deaf studies, early childhood, English, foreign language, health and physical education, mathematics, music, psychology, religious studies, science, social science, and special education. Students in secondary and K-12 programs major in their discipline and complete a professional education sequence of approximately 30 credits.

Sample Education Courses

Field Experience
Effective Teaching Methods
Secondary/K-12 Education
Educational Psychology
Social Foundations of Education
Student Teaching
Introduction to Education
Elementary Curriculum & Instruction
Assissment & Planning for Young Children

Some Recent Student HonorsTheses:

"Brain-Compatible Classrooms"
"The Art of Parent/Teacher Communication in the Elementary Classroom"

Just the Facts

Student: faculty ratio:	20:1
Average class size:	20-25 students
Degree earned:	B.S. in Education
After Marywood:	Students go directly into teaching or go to graduate programs, including recently Columbia, Fairfield University, and Pennsylvania State University. A recent graduate even went to Ghana, Africa, on a Fulbright Fellowship.

For more information, please contact:

Sr. Ann Jablonski, Department Chairperson
Department of Education
McGowan Center for Professional Studies
Marywood University
Scranton, PA 18509
570-348-6297
jablonski@marywood.edu

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