Education

Welcome	Title II Certification Report
Requirements and Courses	Match Night Highlights
The Program	Current News
Conceptual Framework	Meet the Faculty Members
Prospective Students	Teacher Education Program Candidates
Student Teachers	Cooperating Teachers
College Supervisors	Content Faculty
Brains from the Basement	Blackburn Application

The emphasis of the Department of Education is on providing 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). The Department of Education offers eight different certification programs:

1. Visual Arts Education (K-12)
2. Secondary Science Education: Biology (9-12)
3. Elementary Education (K-9)
4. Secondary English Education (9-12)
5. Secondary Mathematics Education (9-12)
6. Music Education (K-12)
7. Physical Education (K-12)
8. Secondary Social Science Education: History (9-12)

Candidates will 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 of the programs 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 with Illinois state and national standards. They agree with the Department of Education vision and mission statements and operate to ensure candidates meet the college, unit, and program objectives.

For more information, email or call 1-800-233-3550, ext. 4305.