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Early Childhood Education - The Wonder Years!

If you like working with young children, focusing on the formative learning years, and are interested in teaching, then Early Childhood Education is designed especially for you. You will be teaching preschool, kindergarten or grades one through three. You will combine your education studies with one of three coordinate majors: American Studies, Writing Arts, or Liberal Studies: Humanities/Social Science. When you leave Rowan’s Early Childhood program, you will have two degrees: A BA in Education and a BA in your coordinate major.

The program ensures that you will meet standards set by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) and the State of New Jersey. Upon successful completion of the program, you will be eligible for and recommended for a P-3 (preschool through grade three) teaching certification. With the potential federal and state initiatives for mandatory pre-school education for three and four-year-olds facing school districts, this certification will have you well prepared to step into these classrooms.

You will work closely in small-class settings with professors who are highly regarded for their expertise. Every future teacher course that you will take at Rowan includes a field experience-time in real classrooms working with real teachers and students. During these skill-enhancing sessions you will assist and observe tenured teachers under close supervision by your Rowan professors. These experiences culminate with student teaching.

Education students everywhere student teach, but Rowan's College of Education is one of the country's best in preparing future educators, and the field experiences offered to candidates here reflect that fact.