Kindergarten Licensure Program
The kindergarten licensure program provides a rigorous, cohesive standards-based series of courses that prepare teachers with Rules 46-47 licenses to add a kindergarten specialization to their elementary license.
The five course, 15 credit hour sequence, combines traditional classroom learning, field experience and action research. EDUC 550, Curriculum and Methods for the Young Child, explores the many ways to promote language growth in the kindergarten classroom. Course topics include the following: best practices in emergent literacy, shared ad interactive writing, integration of children's literature, and systematic instruction in phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension.
EDUC 554, Health, Nutrition, and Parent Education, highlights critical
issues that impact teaching and learning in the kindergarten classroom.
Special focus is on meeting the needs of divergent learners, examining successful
models of parental involvement, and exploring central Indiana community
resources. Young children's health issues, language and culture, developmental
milestones, and nutritional needs will be addressed. Candidates will choose
an advocacy project related to the course. EDUC 555, Trends and Issues in
Early Childhood Education, examines critical components of the kindergarten
program. Assessment, management, curriculum planning, and developmentally
appropriate practice-all are observed and analyzed in light of translating
theory into practice. EDUC 595, Supervised Field Experience in Early Childhood,
is a guided field experience with five years. The format will be individually
designed to meet each candidate's unique situation, but all will provide
to increase the candidates skills as a reflective practitioner while demonstrating
ability and dispositions of a proficient kindergarten teacher. EDUC 597,
Action Research in the Early Childhood Setting, is the capstone course.
This classroom-based inquiry project will provide a personally relevant,
research-influenced, systematic exploration of a kindergarten issue.
To register, please contact:
Jody Rose,
jrose@uindy.edu
Graduate Education Programs
(317) 788-2113
For more information on the courses offered, please email:
Donna Stephenson, dstephenson@uindy.edu or
Dr. Nanci Vargus, nvargus@uindy.edu
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