Secondary Education Licensure with English for Teaching BS
Gain a Minnesota teaching license for grades 5-12 in one of four major content areas. Share your passion for learning and make a difference in the lives of urban youth. Empower yourself with the content knowledge, multicultural teaching skills, urban field experiences, and professionalism you need to give urban secondary students a high-quality, equitable education. The Urban Secondary Education licensure program within the School of Urban Education (UED) is designed to meet the needs of urban middle and high schools for teachers who can improve students' educational achievement. The UED prepares prospective secondary teachers who can use their understanding of diverse urban learners and communities along with content knowledge and build on the talents and resiliency of their students for success in school and life. Our approach to teacher education focuses on preparing diverse, reflective and resilient teachers who are outstanding in their commitment to teaching urban youth and creating equitable educational opportunities. More than any other program in Minnesota, we attract more teacher candidates who are of color, multilingual, low-income or ""first generation"" into teaching careers who can relate to the experiences of culturally and linguistically diverse urban youth and their communities. The UED partners with departments in the College of Liberal Arts and College of Sciences that provide the content area knowledge for teaching in a particular subject area and house the departments that offer the following four majors: English for Teaching (BS) Learn the content to teach writing, reading, literature, speech communication, and media literacy to students in grades 5-12. Life Sciences Teaching (BS) Learn the content to teach life sciences to students in grades 9-12 and general science to students in grades 5-8. Mathematics Teaching (BS) Learn the content to teach mathematics to students in grades 5-12. Social Studies for Teaching (BS) Learn the content to teach history and social sciences to students in grades 5-12. Graduate level options Students with previous bachelor’s degrees seeking secondary education licensure may complete this program at the graduate level towards a master’s degree. See M.S. Urban Education pages, linked below, for information about the graduate pathway to secondary education licensure in particular content areas. Secondary Education Teacher Preparation concentration for Life Sciences Teaching Secondary Education Teacher Preparation concentration for Social Studies Teaching Secondary Education Teacher Preparation concentration for Mathematics Teaching Secondary Education Teacher Preparation concentration for English Teaching