Applicants for the traditional EC-4 certificate must complete the following courses:
EDUC 5309Teaching the Young Child
EDUC 5311Classroom Management
EDUC 5320Exceptionality in Children and Youth
EDUC 5325 Diagnosis and Remediation of Reading Difficulties
EDUC 5330 Curriculum and Instruction
EDUC 5332Educational Psychology
EDUC 5335 Multicultural Populations
EDUC 5370 Foundations of Reading
EDUC 5371 Elementary Social Studies
EDUC 5372 Elementary Mathematics
EDUC 5373 Elementary Science
EDUC 5377 Emergent Literacy
Candidates for EC-4 certification must complete at least six credit hours of student teaching (10-12 weeks all day), a one-year supervised internship, or complete two years teaching experience in a TEA approved EC-4 classroom.Student teaching, one year supervised internships, or two year teaching experience must be done at the level and in the content area for which certification is being sought.
