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SECONDARY TEACHER EDUCATION PROGRAM (STEP)
Program Purpose:
The Undergraduate Secondary Teacher Education Program (STEP) at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro is designed for students who wish to pursue teacher licensure in the following content areas: English, Comprehensive Social Studies, Mathematics, Comprehensive Science, and Foreign Language, including Latin.
Areas of licensure are listed below with their corresponding degrees/majors :
- Mathematics, BA & BS (Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, Pure Mathematics, and Statistics)
- English, BA
- Science:
- Biology, BA & BS
- Chemistry, BA & BS
- Physics, BA & BS
- iv) Integrated Science (Special Programs in Liberal Studies)
- Social Studies:
- Anthropology, BA
- Economics, BA or BS
- Geography, BA
- History, BA
- Political Science, BA
- Psychology, BA
- Sociology, BA
- Foreign Language*
- Latin BA (Classical Studies)
- French (K-12), BA
- Spanish (K-12), BA
*Foreign Language and Classical Studies (Latin) Secondary Teacher Education Programs will be advised by their respective departments. Please contact the following individuals for more information:
Latin: Dr. David Wharton (wharton@uncg.edu)
For the Classical Studies (Latin) Website click here
Foreign Language: Marcia Payne Wooten (mpwooten@uncg.edu)
French: Marcia Payne Wooten (mpwooten@uncg.edu)
Spanish: Dr. Mariche Garcia de las Bayonas (megarcia@uncg.edu)
For the French Website click here
For the Spanish Website click here
NOTE: STEP does not award degrees. The College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) and the Bryan School of Business confer degrees. The STEP provides teacher licensure courses; the CAS and Bryan School of Business offer general education and content area courses.
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:
Students who are pursuing teaching licensure in the aforementioned content areas combine a rigorous academic program with a sequenced clinical practice at partnership schools. These preservice teachers take content area courses and teacher licensure courses, with their first clinical experience beginning during the first semester of their junior year. Three internships (100+ contact hours) are required prior to student teaching. UNCG faculty work closely with public school faculty, who we call On-Site Teacher Educators (OSTEs), to plan a range of “theory into practice” experiences.
Students who are pursuing teaching licensure in the aforementioned content areas combine a rigorous academic program with a sequenced clinical practice at partnership schools. These preservice teachers take content area courses and teacher licensure courses, with their first clinical experience beginning during the first semester of their junior year. Three internships (100+ contact hours) are required prior to student teaching. UNCG faculty work closely with public school faculty, who we call On-Site Teacher Educators (OSTEs), to plan a range of “theory into practice” experiences.
PROGRAM GOALS:
The primary goal of the Secondary Teacher Education Program is to prepare caring, competent, and collaborative professionals to teach academic core subjects (English, social studies, mathematics, science, and foreign language, including Latin) in grades 9-12. To qualify for initial licensure, candidates must meet the following program goals:
- Become involved in the identification of issues in secondary teacher education generally as well as those related to specific content areas and the search for solutions.
- Become critical thinkers capable of effectively expressing themselves in oral and written communication.
- Develop a knowledge base in their specialty area.
- Develop self-awareness and an understanding of their own world view and how that perspective influences their learning and teaching.
- Understand cultural differences and appreciate the rich cultural heritage that each high school student brings to the classroom.
- Understand the unique learning characteristics, needs, and capacities of high school students from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds and of varying exceptionalities.
Additional goals of STEP are to:
- Develop strong links between (a) faculty members in the Department of Teacher Education/Higher Education who focus on secondary pedagogy, (b) field-based colleagues who work with UNC-Greensboro preservice teachers and collaborate on partnership schools projects, and (c) content experts in the College of Arts of Sciences as well as other academic units on campus.
- Seek to educate professionals who can successfully teach students from a wide range of backgrounds with diverse educational needs so that they may become active, contributing citizens upon graduation from high school.
- Develop and support a community of secondary teacher educators, teacher candidates, practitioners, and content faculty to promote and sustain collegiality among everyone involved in the preparation of secondary teachers.
PROGRAM OF STUDY:
The following is a proposed plan of study for the courses in the STEP:
FALL OF JUNIOR YEAR:
*TED 445
*ERM 401 (1 sh, online)
*TED 401 (1 sh, online)
SPRING OF JUNIOR YEAR:
*ERM 402 (1 sh, online)
*TED 403 (1 sh, online)
*SES 401 (1 sh, online)
LIS 120 (1 sh, or sooner)
FALL OF SENIOR YEAR:
TED 535 (or sooner)
*ERM 403 (1 sh, online)
*TED 5XX
TED 527: French and Spanish
TED 551: English
TED 552: Foreign Languages (French & Spanish); Classical Studies (Latin)
TED 557: Mathematics
TED 559: Sciences
SPRING OF SENIOR YEAR:
*TED 465 (12 sh)
*Courses must be taken in the four-semester sequence. NO EXCEPTIONS. Additional courses may be required by the major/department.