Elementary Education
Program Goals Statement
This program prepares students to become transformative and empowering educators and who want to teach from Kindergarten through grade 6 (K-6) to transfer into an education program at a 4-year college or university that offers teacher licensure in Massachusetts. Moreover, the program also offers transfer pathways into Secondary Education programs at a 4-year college and university for students who choose to become Middle/High school teachers. Students are also qualified to be paraprofessionals once they have completed 48 credits.
Program Information
- Students in the Elementary Education program are required to submit a Criminal Offender Record Investigation (CORI) check. A positive CORI check would prevent a student from taking courses requiring field-related work, including
- To enroll in EDU 220, students must have completed 27 credits with an overall minimum GPA of 2.5.
- Within the semester following completion of ENG 102, students should seek the assistance of the Program Coordinator to make plans to take the state-administered Communication and Literacy Skills Test (CLST).
- Students who are transferring to 4-year colleges and universities are recommended to maintain a minimum GPA of 2.8 at the time of graduation to ensure transfer eligibility and begin their education course work at the 4-year schools.
- Students must take EDU 210: Education and Technology either as their program elective or as a free elective since technological literacy is now a transfer requirement and a significant skill for all educators.
- Students seeking to transfer into Secondary Education pathways must take PSY 253: Adolescent Psychology.
After Bristol
Bristol participates in the statewide MassTransfer program and has developed many program-to-program transfer articulation agreements which guarantee admission and credit transfer. For a complete listing of eligible MassTransfer programs, current Bristol articulation agreements, and to complete an A2B Program Search, visit the Transfer Services website to review which credits will be transferred and applied to your degree.
Additional Information
- While selecting elective courses, students are also encouraged to complete courses such as ENG 272 Children's Literature and PHL111 Introduction to Logic to maximize the number of 4-year colleges and universities that have direct equivalencies.
- Students pursuing Secondary Education pathways must complete their pre-practicum classroom observations at a state-approved middle or high school in a classroom with a highly qualified teacher.
- Students who are employed in school districts as paraprofessionals, classroom aids, substitute teachers and so on, can use work hours towards their required classroom observation hours for EDU130, EDU 210 and EDU 220.