Elementary Education - Gardner - Webb University

Elementary Education from Gardner - Webb University is a Campus Bachelor Elementary Education degree that prepares you for a Education career. The Elementary Education Program is planned so that candidates will acquire: 1. knowledge across all subject areas included in the breadth of the Gardner-Webb core curriculum and enhanced by the specialty area (Elementary Education) of the curriculum. [The beginning teacher should be broadly and liberally educated and have full command of the subjects that he or she will teach.] 2. knowledge of characteristics of developmental stages of children from ages five to twelve 3. understanding of unique learning characteristics of children from a wide variety of cultural and language backgrounds and of exceptional students. 4. skills to adapt curriculum and teaching strategies to meet elementary learners' needs. 5. skills to organize classroom environment which meets the needs of and stimulates the intellectual growth of children. 6. interpersonal skills for the purpose of establishing effective communication within the classroom, within the school, and in establishing productive home-school linkages. 7. skills to effectively evaluate student learning and to use results to establish an effective instructional program 8. understanding of contemporary issues related to teaching as a profession and to schooling in a complex society 9. knowledge about schools, teaching and children that increases through carefully planned and supervised field experiences View more details on Gardner - Webb University . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Elementary Education courses.