Thank you for your interest in Blackburn College’s Education Department. Our emphasis is on providing teacher candidates with the education coursework and field experience needed for state certification in Elementary Education (K-9), Secondary Education (9-12), or Special Certification (K-12). We offer certification programs in the following seven areas:
- Elementary Education (K-9)
- Secondary English Education (9-12)
- Secondary Mathematics Education (9-12)
- Secondary Science Education: Biology (9-12)
- Secondary Social Science Education: History (9-12)
- Physical Education (K-12)
- Visual Arts Education (K-12)
Our teacher candidates have the opportunity to acquire essential knowledge, skills and dispositions for initial teaching certification. The department welcomes a diversity of cultures, needs, and ideas to promote the rigorous learning environment and scholarship required of all candidates. Each program is designed to promote candidates’ personal commitments to excellence in teaching. By developing these commitments, graduates of Blackburn College’s education programs will be endowed with the necessary skills and dispositions to enhance K-12 student learning.
In order to provide education opportunities for candidates to gain the knowledge and performance standards, education courses are tightly integrated with field experiences that are developmentally sequenced. The culminating field experience is student teaching, an intensive, one-semester off-campus teaching component for which the candidate earns 12 credits.
Initial Teacher Education Programs are based on and in compliance with Illinois state and national standards. They agree with our department’s vision and mission statements and operate to ensure candidates meet college, unit, and program objectives.
For more information, please email education@blackburn.edu or call 1-800-233-3550, ext. 4305 and visit our Facebook page HERE
