Education

Grade:  10,11,12

Length:  Semester

Credit:  CTE / WSU ECED 2600 3 credits

Fee:  $20

Comments: Must complete Child Development first to take for College credit

Description:  Course designed to teach students how to run and organize a child care or preschool facility. Potential CDA certification.

Grade:  11,12

Length:  Semester

Credit:  CTE WSU 2610 3 credits

Fee:  $20

Comments:  Must complete Child Development first

Description:  Continuation of Early Childhood Education I. Total hands-on lab experience with the preschool (Wee Weber). 

Grade:  11,12

Length:  Semester

Credit:  CTE WSU ECED 2620 3 credits

Fee:  $20

Comments:  Must complete Child Development first 

Description:  Continuation of Early Childhood Education 2. Total hands-on lab experience with the preschool (Wee Weber).

Focus will be on CDA.

Grade:  12

Length:  Semester

Credit:  CTE

Fee: $35

Comments:  Must have transportation Must complete Workplace skills packet 

Description:  Off site child care experience at an elementary school or day care facility. Critical workplace skills packet must be completed before semester begins. Additional .25 credit will be awarded when CWS packet is completed. 

Grade:  10,11,12

Length:  Semester

Credit:  CTE

Fee:

Comments: Formally known as Teaching As Profession 1

Description:  Are you considering becoming a teacher? Experience and participate as you learn about the role and characteristics of an effective educator. Learn about current teaching methods and instructional strategies. Explore assessments and when to use them. Discover how students learn and how to differentiate for special populations. Recognize ways to use educational technology in the classroom. 

Grade:  10,11,12

Length: Semester

Credit:  CTE

Fee:

Comments:  Formally known as Teaching As a Profession 2

Description:  This course is a continuation of TAP-1. Get hands on experience of how an educator uses classroom management and strategies to help you be effective in a classroom. Explore instructional strategies used in today’s classrooms. Explore higher order thinking and learn about differentiated instruction and how it affects students learning. Practice the art of planning by using state and national curriculums to create lesson plans and meet the needs of future students. 

Grade:  11,12

Length: Semester (2-hr block)

Credit: CTE  WSU EDU 1010 3 credits

Fee:

Comments:  

Description:  Students will explore the exciting world of teaching, examine what it means to be a teacher and participate in field observations. This course is a prerequisite to elementary and secondary license programs in the department of teacher education at WSU. Class taught at high schools as a pure concurrent class. Students must register for Concurrent Enrollment WSU EDUC 1010-3 credit hours. Student must purchase their textbook and have a 3.0 GPA and attendance credit loss of 0.75 or less. Personal transportation is required for field observations.