Adolescence (Secondary) Education
Faculty:
Paul Nochelski, S.J., Chair; Janet M. Ferguson, Director; Ali Ait Si Mhamed, M. Fernanda Astiz, Kristin V. Finn, Ellen M. Hamm, Julie Henry, Christopher Lopata, Rosemary K. Murray, Gillian Richardson, Mary E. Shea.
The Adolescence Education program provides teacher certification in grades 7-12. Canisius offers certification in ten disciplines at the adolescence level: English, mathematics, social studies, French, German, Spanish, biology, chemistry, physics, and business. Candidates should possess a bachelor’s degree with a major, or its equivalent of a minimum of 36 credit hours, in the academic discipline. All candidates for adolescence education certification will need as a pre-requisite one year study of language other than English at the college or university level, or its equivalent. One new feature of this program is that students for the first time will be able to obtain a downward extension to teach at the Middle Childhood level in grades 5-6.
Required courses for certification in adolescence education:
| EDR 502 | Foundations of Literacy Instruction | 3 | ||
| EDR 503 | Literacy in Secondary School | 3 | ||
| EDR 505 | Foundations of Education | 3 | ||
| EDU 515 | Measurement and Assessment | 3 | ||
| EDU 517 | Teaching Strategies: Adolescence | 3 | ||
| EDU 541 | Inclusive Strategies | 3 | ||
| EDU 555 | Human Growth and Development: Adolescence | 3 | ||
| EDU 560 | Cognition, Learning and Assessment: Adolescence | 3 | ||
| EDU 561-566 | Methods of Teaching: Adolescence | 3 |
Select area of certification:
| 561 | Business | |||
| 562 | English | |||
| 563 | Mathematics | |||
| 564 | Modern Languages | |||
| 565 | Science | |||
| 566 | Social Studies | |||
| EDU 572 | Seminar in Teaching and Assessment: Adolescence |
3 | ||
| EDU 573 | Student Teaching: Adolescence |
12 | ||
| TOTAL 42 | ||||
At this point, candidates will have met the education requirements for initial certification in Adolescence Education.
Additional courses required for m.s. in education adolescence
| Two Electives at the 500-600 level |
6 | |||
| EDU 615 | Research Methods |
3 | ||
| TOTAL 51 | ||||
* Candidates in adolescence education\English have no elective courses. They must take LIN 580 History and Structure of the English Language and EDU 506 Teaching Writing in the Schools in place of elective courses.
Candidates wishing to obtain an extension to teach grades 5-6 (thus enabling candidates to teach middle childhood grades 5-9 as well as adolescence grades 7-12) must take the following additional courses:
| EMC 552 | Human Growth and Development in Middle Childhood | 3 | ||
| EMC 553 | Cognition, Learning, Assessment and Diagnostic Teaching in Middle Childhood | 3 |