Early Childhood Licensure Program

The Early Childhood/Primary PTEP is designed to prepare students to teach children from birth to 3rd grade. The program includes opportunities to acquire and demonstrate knowledge of theory and practice necessary to plan, implement, and assess curriculum for individual children and groups, and prepares and generates the will in professionals to advocate for policies designed to improve conditions for all children, families, and the profession.

Students in the Early Childhood/Primary PTEP will acquire the knowledge, skills and dispositions to teach and perform effectively in the following areas:

•	Planning and implementing instruction

•	Assessment of learning, development and instruction

•	Interpersonal relations with children, colleagues and families

•	Personal and professional behavior.

For degree and program requirements, see:

Early Childhood PTEP