Northern Arizona University
College of Education
PO Box 5774
Flagstaff, AZ 86011-5774
(928) 523-5342
Undergraduate Programs
Our unique educational specialties department consists of four fields of education that are special and crucial programs in the public schools:
- Bilingual Multicultural Education
- Educational Technology
- Special Education
- Career and Technical Education
These programs provide you, a future teacher, with the knowledge and skills that add valuable depth to your expertise as a professional educator. Every year, public schools search for potential teachers who are experienced in working with special and culturally diverse populations and those with strong technology knowledge and skills.
The purpose of each of our programs is to prepare you to deal effectively with the unique needs of all students in our schools. With the constantly changing demographics in our schools, you must be able to provide appropriate instruction to insure that all students are givent the greatest opportunity to learn. By expanding your professional education preparation beyond the general programs of elementary and secondary education, you will be well prepared to compete for positions virtually anywhere in the United States and in international education.
Bilingual Multicultural Education
As a result of the increasing diversity of our country's population, you must be prepared to meet the needs of students from a variety of cultures and backgrounds, and our courses in bilingual multicultural education are designed to help prepare you to do just that.
If you are majoring in elementary education or are preparing for certification in secondary education, our program can provide you with a valuable content emphasis or minor consisting of courses that lead to Arizona endorsements in bilingual education or English as a second language (ESL).
Go to: Content Emphases
Career and Technical Education
Our undergraduate degrees in career and technical education include three programs that lead to secondary education certification: Business Education, Industrial Technology and Family & Consumer Science. In addition we have an Occupational Emphasis degree for those not seeking secondary certification. We also offer post-degree certification programs and an elementary education Technology Emphasis.
Go to: CTE programs.
Educational Technology
As a teacher, you must be prepared to meet the 21st century learning needs of your students.
Our educational technology area is designed to help you explore the use of instructional technology (using technology to support instruction), computer-aided learning, telecommunications, and multimedia as instructional tools to prepare your students for a technology rich world.
Our educational technology courses provide you with an introduction to technology, emphasizing the use of computers as integrated tools for teaching and learning. We support a teaching lab for students to provide you with experiential preparation in strategies for teaching in classrooms with one computer or in state-of-the-art technology classrooms.
Special Education
As we move to an inclusive educational environment where all children work and learn together, our programs promote inclusive practices through our dual major in special and elementary education and the content emphasis in special education.
The dual program prepares you to become a certified teacher who can meet the unique learning needs of all students in your classroom, including children with mild-moderated disabilities (learning disabilities, emotional/behavioral disorders, mild-moderate intellectual disabilities, orthopedic and health impairments). You student teach for one semester, with your time divided between special education and elementary education settings. When you complete your degree, you will have earned one certificate in special education (grades K-12 cross-categorical special education) and one in elementary education (K-8).With training in both special and elementary education, graduates of our dual major program are are highly sought after candidates for job openings in our schools.
You may also pursue a single major in elementary education with a content emphasis in special education. This 18-hour special education content emphasis does not require student teaching, and it does not result in special-education certification.
Go to: B.S.Ed. in special education and elementary education (dual major) or , special-education content emphasis for more information about these programs
School-Based Programs
As a special-education major, you may wish to take education coursework in a school-based program. At this time, we offer three unique school-based programs to special-education dual majors. In each of these programs, you spend several hours each day working with students in public-school classrooms under the supervision of cooperating teachers and N.A.U. faculty.
The College of Educaiton also offers a rural, special education program with an embedded ESL course of study, the PRISE program funded by the U.S. Department of Education grant, offers the dual major program in the greater Yuma area.
The third program, Praxis, is based in an elementary school in Flagstaff. This four-semester program includes student teaching and is currently the only school-based program through which dual majors can take all of your elementary and special-education courses.
We accept applications for these programs each fall and conduct interviews during late fall and early spring. For more information, go to: School-University Partnerships or contact Marrianne Doughterty in our Division of Student Services located in room#101 of the College of Education
Admission
You must be admitted to C.O.E's teacher-education program before you take any education courses except EDF 200 and ESE 380. Review carefully the information about admission requirements for our teacher-education program.
Check out the list of upper division syllabi.
