Elementary Education
Why study elementary education at CMU?
The elementary education program at CMU prepares and certifies students to teach in grades kindergarten through 8. Consider these key features distinguishing this program at CMU:
- Statewide student-teaching centers and options to student teach for an eight-week period in England, Ghana, Australia, or the Dominican Republic
- Professional development through organizations such as the Student Michigan Education Association
- Career development through community activities such as the Summer Reading Clinic
- An innovative new Education Building that will open in 2009 and feature the latest technology
- Great Explorations in Math and Science (GEMS) center offers workshops and classroom materials - the only one of its kind in the state
- The most teacher education alumni in Michigan
Areas of study
- Bilingual/Bicultural - Spanish/Ojibwe
- Child Development
- Dance
- English
- English as a Second Language
- Family Studies: Life Management Education
- French
- Geography
- German
- History
- Industrial Education
- Language Arts
- Mathematics
- Middle Level Education
- Outdoor and Environmental Education
- Physical Education
- Planned Program
- Reading in the Elementary Grades
- School Health Education
- Science, Integrated
- Social Studies
- Spanish