Education

The Education Program at Everett Community College is designed to give students an opportunity to explore the teaching profession, and to assist them in completing an Associate of Arts and Sciences - DTA that articulates with four-year schools. To become a K-8 elementary teacher in Washington State, students complete an AAS degree and transfer to an accredited four-year college or university for a Bachelor’s degree and elementary teaching certification, or they can remain on the Everett campus to complete a Bachelor’s degree and teaching certification at Western Washington University’s program in elementary education. Students wishing to become an 8-12 secondary education teacher complete an AAS and Bachelor’s degree in the discipline they wish to teach, and then enter a secondary teaching certification program at a four-year college or university, including Western’s Master in Teaching - Secondary Education degree program at Everett’s University Center. The Education Program also offers an Associate of Technical Arts degree for students interested in becoming an educational paraprofessional (current paraprofessionals employed in local K-12 school districts can possibly have work experience count as credit by equivalency), courses that satisfy requirements for the Early Childhood Education Program and participation in an active Teachers of Tomorrow student organization. In addition to the Student Core Learning Outcomes, the Program Specific Outcomes include: • Subject Matter Knowledge: Students will explain the central concepts, foundations, theories and intellectual frameworks of professional teaching, including the tools of inquiry and structures of the disciplines they wish to teach in order to construct learning experiences that apply these aspects of the profession and disciplines. • Personal and Professional Self-understanding: Students will analyze through observation and reflection a variety of educational philosophies and approaches and will examine issues of professional self-understanding in order to develop personal learning styles and individual teaching styles. • Communication Skills: Students will employ interpersonal, instructional and cultural communication techniques in order to foster future active learning, dialogue, collaboration, and positive interaction and relations with peers, school officials, agencies, parents and learners. • Instructional Planning and Design: Students will design instructional lessons by recognizing curriculum as a process of creating learning objectives, developing the scope and sequence of instructional content, and establishing formal and informal assessment strategies to evaluate instructional effectiveness. • Multiple Teaching Strategies: Students will compare a variety of instructional strategies and methods that address individual learners and learning styles in order to develop collaborative critical thinking and creative problem solving skills in a variety of student populations. • Knowledge of Human Development and Learning: Students will discuss a variety of perspectives on human development and learning in order to design learning experiences to support the cognitive, psychological and social differences and needs of cross-cultural and generational learners. • Professional Commitment and Responsibility: Students will describe what it means to be a competent, ethical and professional teacher in a democratic, diverse and technological society in order to develop commitment to professional growth and to the legal and ethical responsibilities of American public school teachers.

Introduction to roles and responsibilities of the Paraeducator in the K-12 educational system. Exploration of techniques supporting instruction, professional and ethical practices, positive and safe learning environments, effective communication and teamwork.

Prepares students to become leading participants in and advocates for children’s education through an evidence-based, interactive examination of fundamental concepts of child development, community and government systems, education, leadership, and civic participation. All students are required to design and develop a community leadership project. Prerequisites: Instructor permission

Service Learning combines the opportunity of volunteerism with academic applications of educational social, economic, and political issues important to the local community. Provides for real-life application of skills and knowledge that extends learning beyond the classroom and into the community. May be repeated up to six credits. Prerequisites: Instructor permission and completion of EDUC& 202.

Seminar designed to introduce education students to controversies in education. Through readings that represent arguments of leading educators and reflect a variety of viewpoints, discussions will be on opposing viewpoints, thinking critically and reaching considered judgments. Prerequisites: EDUC& 202 or instructor permission.

Introductory course in recognition and identification of exceptionality in children from birth through high school. Includes policies and regulations concerning state and federal provisions of special education and related services, as well as adaptations for serving students with special needs in general education classrooms. Prerequisites: EDUC& 202 OR ECED& 105

Readings and discussions about educational philosophies within the context of education as social construction; and more broadly, as a process of human existential growth where understanding of the world are continually transformed. Prerequisites: EDUC& 202 or instructor permission.

Readings and discussions about educational philosophies within the context of education as social construction; and more broadly, as a process of human existential growth where understanding of the world are continually transformed. Prerequisites: EDUC& 202 or ECED& 105

(TE) Cooperative work experience in a field-based setting for education majors (see EDUC 256). Allows students to earn college credit for work experience in public school classrooms. Practical observation and work under supervision of a teacher. Students will have the opportunity to explore the teaching profession, and experience a wide variety of hands-on experiences during their placement, including observation, tutoring, facilitating learning groups and teaching lessons. If possible, students should begin their observation before the beginning of the quarter. Corequisites: EDUC 256. Prerequisites: EDUC& 202 or concurrent enrollment in EDUC& 202 or instructor permission.