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Updated: 02-25-02 |
| Early Childhood and Elementary School Teachers | |
| Contact: Karen Hamlin; Executive Building; X 5476; khamlin@willamette.edu | |
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The best preparation for becoming an elementary
school teacher includes a broad liberal arts education. The future
teacher may major in any field if good use is made of the choices
for electives. Assuming any specific major, a good preparation for
elementary teaching is equivalent to the construction of a second
major to add a wise choice of breadth. Assuming a major not in math
or science, the following courses would be good electives and choices
to fulfill general education requirements.
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Elementary Statistics Math 138 or Soc 348 or Psych 252/253 or Econ 230 |
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Math 220: Math for Elem. Teachers |
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Bio 110: Principles of Biology |
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Chem 110: Chemistry |
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Envr 220: Environmental Systems |
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Erth 110: Physical Geology |
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Phys 215 & 236: Intro to Physics I & II |
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Psych 210: General Psych |
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Educ 350: Foundations of Reading |
| The Physics classes, for example, address concepts of motion, simple machines, electricity, magnetism and light. Some of the labs can be adapted to an elementary school level. | |
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