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Elementary PTEP
Liberal Arts Emphasis
with Required Supporting Credits (see page 99)
Degree Requirements - 126 Credits
The Elementary Professional Teacher Education Program (PTEP) is designed to prepare students to be licensed teachers at the K-6 level. Students will be assigned an elementary education advisor during application to the Elementary PTEP. For additional information: Please See "Elementary Education: Professional Teacher Education Program".
Required LAC Program - 40 hours
Please See "The Liberal Arts Core".
Interdisciplinary Studies Degree program - 42 hours
Required Elementary PTEP courses - 44 hours
Prerequisite courses - 13 hours
(2.75 GPA and sophomore status are required for all courses)
EDEL 360 Service Learning Experience (2)
EDF 366 Conceptions of Schooling: Context and Process (4)
PSY 347 Educational Psychology for Elementary Teachers (3)
EDSE 430 Exceptional Student in the Elementary Classroom (2)
ET 247 Technology in Education for Elementary Teaching (1)
ET 347 Educational Technology Applications for Elementary Teaching (1)
Methods - 8 hours
(3.0 GPA is required; courses maybe taken before, during, or after Block I)
CH 303 Health Education in the Elementary School (1)
ART 444 Methods of Teaching Art in the Elementary School (1)
MUS 305 Music Methods for Elementary Teachers (1)
SES 403 Physical Education Methods for Elementary Teachers (1)
EDEL 450 Integrated Social Studies and Mathematics Methods (4)
Student Teaching Block I - 11 hours
(3.0 GPA required for all courses)
EDEL 451 Literacy Methods for Elementary School (5)
EDEL 452 Student Teaching I (3)
SCED 475 Teaching Science in the Elementary School (3)
Student Teaching Block II -12 hours
(3.0 GPA is required for both courses)
EDEL 453 Effective Instruction in Elementary School: Social Studies and Mathematics (2)
EDEL 454 Student Teaching II (10)
Program Checkpoints
EDFE 110 Initial PTEP Application (0) Must be taken in the semester before EDEL 360
EDFE 120 Full Admission to PTEP Application (0) Must be taken in the semester before EDEL 452.
EDFE 130 Student Teaching Application (0) Must be taken in the semester before EDEL 454.
Urban Education Program
The Urban Education program is an Elementary Education program leading to licensure offered in the Denver area. All course requirements are the same as on-campus although the delivery and sequence of courses may vary from the on-campus program.
Prerequisites for Initial Application into Elementary PTEP
Center for Urban Education teacher candidates must make formal application to the elementary Professional Teacher Education Program (PTEP) following the second semester of their freshman year. In order to apply, candidates must have completed 30 semester hours and have a 2.75 GPA.
However, as early as the first semester of college coursework and continuing throughout the four years, Center students take classes and receive credit in PTEP coursework. Even though students will be enrolled in integrated methods courses and seminars, educational foundation courses and the apprenticeship experience, formal application to PTEP still is required.
In addition, at the end of the second semester of first year, candidates must:
Prerequisites for Student Teaching I and Student Teaching II Application
Center candidates receive full admission status when meeting the following requirements:
Application Process for Student Teaching
Application for Student Teaching will occur the semester prior to the student teaching.
Only Urban Education students must enroll in the following eighteen courses offered in the one-hour format through the Elementary Professional Teacher Education Program:
EDEL 461 Integrated Science Methods I (1)
EDEL 462 Integrated Science Methods II (1)
EDEL 463 Integrated Science Methods III (1)
EDEL 464 Integrated Literacy Methods - Writing Process (1)
EDEL 465 Integrated Literacy Methods -Literature Response and Classroom Application (1)
EDEL 466 Integrated Literacy Methods - Strategic Literacy and Instruction (1)
EDEL 467 Integrated Literacy Methods - Diagnosis, Individualism and Assessment (1)
EDEL 468 Integrated Literacy Methods - Reading and Writing Across the Curriculum (1)
EDEL 471 Integrated Instruction in Elementary School Social Studies - Geography (1)
EDEL 472 Integrated Instruction in Elementary Social Studies - History (I)
EDEL 473 Integrated Instruction in Economics and Citizenship Education (1)
EDEL 474 Integrated Elementary Math Education I (1)
EDEL 475 Integrated Elementary Math Education II (1)
EDEL 476 Integrated Elementary Math Education III (1)
EDEL 477 Integrated Elementary Art Education (1)
EDEL 478 Integrated Elementary Music Education (1)
EDEL 479 Integrated Elementary Physical Education (1)
These courses are equivalent to the on-campus courses EDEL 460 and EDEL 470. On-campus students cannot opt to enroll in any of the one-hour courses, nor can students who are enrolled through Urban Education opt to enroll in the on-campus courses EDEL 460 and EDEL 470.
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