Online Graduate Certificate in Elementary Education
Elementary Education
Program Overview
Ready to add another teaching endorsement to your resume and skill set? The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, offers an online Graduate Certificate in Elementary Education for licensed K-12 teachers and other educational professionals. UT’s College of Education, Health and Human Sciences provides this fully online graduate certificate program via Vols Online in Fall and Spring terms. You can learn more about this 15-credit hour, asynchronous coursework and how it can be tailored to serve various educational career goals.
Lead the Way in Elementary Education
The Elementary Education Graduate Certificate can be tailored to serve various career goals. For K-12 teachers licensed in areas other than elementary education, this graduate certificate can be used towards earning an additional endorsement in Elementary Education. For teachers licensed in Elementary Education at the undergraduate level, non-licensed professionals who work in informal education settings, and others who engage in elementary education instructional opportunities, this graduate certificate provides advanced coursework designed to enhance capacities for designing equity-focused elementary instruction.
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Featured Courses
In addition to one elective course, the Graduate Certificate in Elementary Education requires the completion of the following courses:
Teaching mathematics to diverse learners at the elementary level. Investigating mathematics subject matter, how children learn mathematics, and instructional strategies to enhance that learning.
Trends in methods, materials, basic approaches, skill development, and assessment procedures for teaching reading at the elementary school level.
Recent trends in methods, materials and content in teaching science to elementary students.
Planning and techniques. Trends in curriculum, development of concepts and generalizations, integration of social sciences.
