Teacher Education Department
Receive a degree in Bible/Theology and Secondary Education, Elementary Education, or K-12 ESL Education from Emmaus.
If you enjoy learning about a topic, designing and facilitating lessons that engage and empower student learning, collaborating with other teachers in the personal development of children and adolescents, speaking to groups, building meaningful relationships with students and their parents, and with colleagues, and are committed to professional development and life-long learning, then a career in teaching just might be for you.
Education majors develop the requisite knowledge, skills, and dispositions for becoming an effective, classroom-ready, student-centered, professional educator for 21st century students in 21st century classrooms.
Our program has a 96% pass rate on the state required Praxis 2 professional exam. Our teacher education program provides both a solid theoretical foundation for teaching and learning as well as ample opportunities in elementary and secondary school classrooms to develop the requisite skills for effective teaching and learning. After you design your first unit of instruction in an introductory lesson design course, you then spend an entire week teaching those standards-based lessons in an actual K-12 classroom. You also participate in a year-long, senior-year placement during which teacher candidates spend about 70 hours in the first semester getting to know the students and school routines and then 560 hours in the following semester mastering the craft of teaching. Program completers have communicated that they felt more confident heading into their semester of full-time student teaching because of the year-long placement.
CREW is the Emmaus Teacher Education student organization. This group meets regularly for fellowship, planning, and fun activities. All declared majors are eligible for voting membership in the group. Interested freshmen are encouraged to participate in CREW but with no vote.
Our program graduates pursue professional careers as: