Students seeking a California Preliminary Multiple Subjects Teaching Credential should choose to major in Liberal Studies. The addition of the Education Minor may shorten the credentialing process. Students will receive advisement counseling regarding the use of the Education Minor courses.

Application for admission to the Education minor should be made through the School of Education during the fall of the sophomore year. Completion of the preliminary credential includes a post-Baccalaureate semester of student teaching. Multiple subjects candidates may, with the Dean’s approval, choose to do half of their student teaching in their home community, nationally or internationally.

Simpson University’s Preliminary Teaching Credentials for Multiple Subjects and Single Subject are fully accredited by the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing.

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These are the classes you will take for an Education Minor:

• EDUC 2000 Intro to Education (3 Sp)
• *+EDUC 4000 Integrating Technology (2)
• *+EDUC 4020 Psychological Applications in Education (3)
• *+EDUC 4400 Language Arts (4)
• *+EDUC 4420 Curriculum and Instruction (5)
• *+EDUC 4460 Multicultural Instruction (3)
• *EDUC 4500 Technology in the Classroom (1)
• *+EDUC 4610 Teaching Performance Assessment 1 (0)

These courses are taken post-Baccalaureate to complete Preliminary Teaching Credential (15 credits)

• *ED 5440/5441 Student Teaching (10)
• *ED 5601 Student Teaching Performance Development - A (1)
• *ED 5602 Student Teaching Performance Development - B (1)
• *ED 5620 Teaching Performance Assessment 2 (0)
• *ED 5630 Teaching Performance Assessment 3 (0)
• *ED 5640 Teaching Performance Assessment 4 (0)
• *++ED 5660 Induction Preparation (1)
• *++ED 6000 Philosophical Foundations in Education (2)

*Course has prerequisites; check course descriptions on p. 68.

+Must be completed before student teaching.

++Must be completed after student teaching.

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