Education: Middle Childhood

Degree Awarded:  Bachelor of Arts

For students interested in working with children grades 4 - 9, the Middle Childhood major could be the one for you. The Middle Childhood major provides students with opportunities to develop professional knowledge, skills and dispositions through readings, observations, as well as group projects while on campus and in classrooms within the area. All students take courses in technology applications, philosophical and historical foundations of education, assessment of student performance and issues of diversity in the classroom. Students develop competency in their teaching style through clinical experiences in classrooms within the areas. So, whatever your choice, the challenges helping the next generation are richly rewarding.

Teacher candidates who wish to teach in middle childhood will pursue a Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in middle childhood education. Middle childhood candidates are required to earn two areas of concentration from the following four areas: math, social studies, science and reading/language arts. At Lake Erie College, each concentration is a minimum of 24 semester hours of coursework. Those teacher candidates successfully completing the program will receive a license to teach children in grades 4-9 or ages 9-14. All middle childhood teacher candidates must complete 12 semester hours in the area of reading/language arts.

Requirements for this Major:

51 semester credits including:

Education Core (14 SH)

• EDC 201 Foundations of Education (3 SH)
• EDC 225 Voices of Diversity (2 SH)
• EDC 230 Educational Psychology (3 SH)
• EDC 330 Introduction to Students with Exceptional Learning Needs (3 SH)
• EDC 340 Educational Media and Technology (3 SH)

Teaching of Reading Core (12 SH)

• EDC 321 Phonetic Approaches to Reading (3 SH)
• EDC 324 Diagnosis and Correction of Reading Problems (3 SH)
• EDP 316 Reading in the Content Area (3 SH)
• EDP 326 Middle Grade Language Arts Methods (3 SH)

Middle Childhood Core (9 SH)

• EDP 304 Integrated Curriculum, Methods and Assessment (3 SH)
• EDP 310 The Pre-Adolescent/Adolescent Learner (3 SH)

and three semester credits from the following:

• EDP 420 Middle Grade Math Methods (3 SH)
• EDP 422 Middle Grade Social Studies Methods (3 SH)
• EDP 424 Middle Grade Science Methods (3 SH)

Field Experience (4 SH)

• EDP 312 Middle Childhood Field Experience I (2 SH )
• EDP 412 Middle Childhood Field Experience II (2 SH )

Student Teaching for Licensure (12 SH)

• EDP 440-42 Student Teaching: Middle Childhood (9 SH)
• EDP 443 Seminar and Project for Middle Childhood (3 SH)

Concentration (Content Area): choose two

Language Arts/Reading

26 semester credits including:

Reading and Literature Study (14 SH)

• EDP 316 Reading in the Content Area (3 SH)
• EDP 411 Pre-Adolescent/Adolescent Literature (3 SH)
• EN 220 Major British Writers (4 SH)
• EN 221 Major American Writers (4 SH)

Composition and Rhetoric (4 SH)

• EN 201 Advanced College Writing (4 SH)
• EN 305 Composition Theory (4 SH)

and four semester credits from the following:

• EN 310 Journalistic Essay (4 SH)
• EN 315 Creative Writing: Fiction (4 SH)
• EN 316 Creative Writing: Dramatic Forms (4 SH)
• EN 317 Creative Writing: Poetry (4 SH)
• EN 401 Literary Theory and Criticism (4 SH)

Mathematics

28 semester credits including:

• EDP 318 Survey of Mathematics Concepts (3 SH)
• MT 109 Pre-Calculus I (4 SH)
• MT 110 Pre-Calculus II (4 SH)
• MT 210 Calculus and Analytical Geometry I (5 SH)
• MT 300 Modern Geometry and Logic (4 SH)

And four semester credits from:

• MN 215 Business Statistics (4 SH)
• MT 207 Probability and Statistics (4 SH)
• PS 204 Statistics (4 SH)

And four semester credits from:

• MT 323 Modern Linear Algebra (4 SH)
• MT 324 Modern Abstract Algebra (4 SH)

Science

31-32 semester credits including:

• BI 101 Introductory Biology I (3 SH)
• BI 101L Introductory Biology I Lab (1 SH)
• BI 102 Introductory Biology II (3 SH)
• BI 102L Introductory Biology II Lab (1 SH)
• CH 103 General Chemistry I (3 SH)
• CH 103L General Chemistry I Lab (1 SH)
• BI 104 Introduction to Environmental Science (4 SH)
• PC 106 Introduction to Physical Science (4 SH)
• PC 220 Physical Geology (3 SH)
• PC 220L Physical Geology Lab (1 SH)

And 3-4 semester credits from:

• BI 201 Botany (3 SH)
• BI 201L Botany Lab (1 SH)
• BI 212 Zoology (3 SH)
• BI 212L Zoology Lab (1 SH)
• BI 319 Ecology & Conservation Biology (3 SH)

And four semester credits from:

• CH 104 General Chemistry II (3 SH)
• CH 104L General Chemistry II Lab (1 SH)
• PC 202 General Physics II (3 SH)
• PC 202L General Physics II Lab (1 SH)

Social Studies

24 semester credits including:

US History (4 SH)

• HI 105 American History I: Colonial Times to 1877 (4 SH)
• HI 106 American History II: 1877 to the Present (4 SH)

World History (4 SH)

• HI 120 World History I: Antiquity to 1400 (4 SH)
• HI 121 World History II: 1400 to 1815 (4 SH)
• HI 122 World History III: 1815 to the Present (4 SH)

Geography (4 SH)

• GE 101 Introduction to Geography (4 SH)
• GE 200 World Geography (4 SH)

Government/Civics (4 SH)

• PO 110 American National Government (4 SH)
• PO 205 State and Local Government (4 SH)

Economics (4 SH)

• EC 200 Principles of Economics (4 SH)

Sociology/Anthropology (4 SH)

• IS 200 Peoples and Cultures in Contrast (4 SH)
• PR 111 Issues in Western Culture (4 SH)
• SO 111 Introduction to Sociology (4 SH)