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Room 2105 James
2900 Bedford Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11210
718-951-5447

Program Description

The School of Education at Brooklyn College offers four strands for students seeking a Master of Science in Education leading to professional certification in Childhood Education.  These options for completing the professional certificate in Childhood Education include three strands of specialization and a Bilingual Extension:

A minimum scholastic index of 3.0 in graduate education and liberal arts and sciences courses is required to maintain matriculation. Students review their plan of study each semester with the program head. 

Liberal Arts: The program in Childhood Education is not only grounded in the liberal arts and sciences, but more significantly, integrates the disciplines with pedagogy.  Several of the courses in pedagogy are paired with courses in the liberal arts and sciences disciplines.  Our program’s orientation toward schooling and education develops students’ commitment to the highest standards of academic quality in their learning and teaching experiences.  Students incorporate political, historical, philosophical, sociological and aesthetic perspective to enhance their pedagogical understanding and effectiveness.  The teacher as an artist immersed in the liberal arts is a prominent focus of the Childhood Education program.  

Mathematics

The Childhood Education Program with a Mathematics Specialization prepares teachers who can serve as elementary classroom teachers, mathematics cluster teachers, mathematics resource teachers and mathematics leaders in their elementary schools and districts.  There have been repeated calls by local and national mathematics organizations for the presence in each elementary school of a mathematics specialist. Brooklyn College provides one of the few programs in the New York City area that prepares such teacher specialists at the elementary school level.

Science and Environmental Education

The Graduate Program in Childhood Education with a specialization in Science and Environmental Education prepares pre-service and in-service elementary educators to be classroom teachers or school specialists with a specialization in science education. The aim of the Graduate Program in Elementary Science and Environmental Education is to meet the unique needs of the scientist-educator in the elementary school. Informed by the National Science Education Standards of the National Research Council for the professional development of science educators, the program involves teachers in learning science content using the process of inquiry throughout. Teachers will be introduced to scientific literature, media and technological resources that expand their science knowledge and their ability to access further knowledge. It is anticipated that Program graduates will be both facilitators and practitioners of lifelong learning. The Program addresses teacher's individual needs as learners and builds on their current knowledge of science content, teaching and learning with the expectation that each individual brings varying degrees of experience, professional expertise and proficiency to the process.  Students will have constant opportunity for collegial and self-reflection on the process of teaching and learning science. Students will learn and use the skills of research to generate new knowledge about science and the teaching and learning of science in the elementary school.

Bilingual Extension 

The Graduate Program in Childhood Education with a Bilingual Education Extension is housed within the Childhood Program in the School of Education. This program shares common goals and philosophy with the Childhood Program.  It is, therefore, designed to educate teachers committed to pedagogic theory and practice, who are self-reflective, who are knowledgeable and skilled with respect to instructional methodologies, and who can respond to the complex educational needs of diverse student populations, including English language learners and students with special needs. One additional and very important focus of the Childhood Program with an Extension in Bilingual Education is the preparation of teachers who can teach in bilingual classrooms.  The program provides greater knowledge of the theories, strategies and methodologies regarding teaching bilingually to English language learners in bilingual classrooms.  Participants will be prepared to address the developmental needs of bilingual English language learners as well as instructional needs in both language and core content areas.

Program Faculty

Wayne Reed, Acting Program Head  

Tibbi Duboys, David Fuys,  Wen-Song Hwu, Meral Kaya, Haroon Kharem, Eleanor Miele, Sharon O'Connor-Petruso, Wayne Reed, Karel Rose, Barbara Rosenfeld, Alma Rubal-Lopez

 

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