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Elementary Education Program Overview
The Elementary Education Program at MacMurray College is dedicated
to preparing its majors to be competently performing elementary
teachers. The general education content courses, which are part
of the College's liberal arts tradition, develop a knowledge
background. In these courses the major will demonstrate a growing
ability to be an effective communicator and to be a critical
thinker. The methods courses expose the majors to a myriad of
teaching theories, strategies, and best-practice techniques.
The field experiences provide valuable hours observing, interacting,
and teaching elementary students in K-6 classrooms. These field
experiences allow the major to develop into a reflective practitioner.
Additionally, candidates have opportunities to develop leadership
skills inside and outside the classroom while growing in their
professional commitment.
Two highlights of the Elementary Education Program need to be identified. First,
education coursework begins the freshman year and continues throughout the program.
Secondly, there are a number of field experiences, also spread over the four
years, that are developmental and sequential in nature --- teaching responsibilities
begin on a small scale and increase as the major progresses through the sophomore
and junior years. These field experiences accumulate more than one hundred twenty
clock hours in the classroom. These two highlights allow time for the major to
learn and grow with the program over the entire four years.
The graduate from MacMurray College will be eligible for an elementary Teaching
Certificate after having successfully completed requirements at different checkpoints
along with these testing components: passage of the Illinois Test of Basic skills
as part of the requirement for formal admission to the Education Department,
passage of the Content Area Test for Elementary Education before beginning clinical
practice, and passage of the Assessment of Professional Teaching Test when exiting
the program. This will enable them to teach anywhere in Illinois from the kindergarten
level to sixth grade (Illinois has reciprocal arrangements with thirty-plus states
which means your Illinois teaching license will allow you with relative ease
to acquire another state’s teaching license).
Programs of Study
Coursework for elementary education
majors is divided into two categories: general education (non-methods,
content courses and college requirements) and professional education
(methods courses including field experiences and clinical practice).
The MacMurray College courses that fulfill the State of Illinois
Standards for certification in elementary education (including
Elementary Content Standards, Language Arts Standards, Technology
Standards, and the Illinois Professional Teaching Standards)
are:
General Education
Communication Skills
- RHET 101 – College Writing (3)
- RHET 102 – College Writing and
Research (3)
- RHET 103 – Public Speaking (3)
Mathematics
- GENE 125 - Quantitative Reasoning (3)
- MATH 222 - Mathematics for Elementary Teachers I (3)
- MATH 224 - Mathematics for Elementary Teachers II (3)
Science
- BIOL 105 – Contemporary Biology
(4)
- PHSC 301 – Physical Science
(4)
Humanities
- CULS 300 - Diversity & the American
Experience (3)
- English Elective (3) (Humanities Breadth)
- HIST 201 - U.S. History from 1783-1865 (3)
- IOCC 201 - The Ancient & Classical
Worlds (3)
- IOCC 301 - High Middle Ages to Enlightenment (3)
- IOCC 401 - The Modern & Post Modern
Worlds (3)
- THEA 215 - Movement for theatre (preferred) (3) (Fine Arts
Breadth)
Social Sciences
- POLS 203 – American Government
and Politics (3)
- PSYC 201 – General Psychology
(3) (Social Science Breadth)
- PSYC 242 – Developmental Psychology
(3)
Health and Physical Development
- PHED 102 - Health Fitness: Guide to Lifestyle
- PHED 103 – Health Promotion
Concepts and Practice (3)
Professional Education
- EDUC 202 - Introduction to Teaching (1)
- EDUC 225 - History & Philosophy
of American Education (3)
- EDUC 237 – Technology in Teaching
(3)
- ELED 232 - Principles of Elementary Education (3)
- ELED 238 – Integrating Art in
the Elementary Classroom (3)
- ELED 248 – Integrating Music & Movement
in the Elementary Classroom (3)
- ELED 304 - Fundamentals of Teaching Social Studies/Science
(3)
- ELED 307 - Language Arts for Elementary Teachers (3)
- ELED 308 - Reading Methods (3)
- ELED 395 - Seminar for Elementary Education Majors (3)
- ELED 464 – Elementary: Clinical
Practice (15)
- MATH 325 - Methods of Teaching Math in the Elementary School
(3)
- SPED 223 - Education of Exceptional Learners (3)
Field Experiences and Courses with
Field Experience Components
- ELED 232 - Principles of Elementary Education (3) (15-25
hrs.)
- ELED 238 - Integrating Art in the Elementary Classroom (8
hrs.)
- ELED 248 – Integrating Music
and Movement in the Elementary Classroom (8 hrs.)
- ELED 315 - Field Experience in Language Arts (3) (40 hrs.)
- ELED 319 - Field Experience in Reading (3) (40 hrs.)
- ELED 325 - Methods of Teaching Math in the Elementary School
(3) (8 hrs.)
- ELED 383 - Reading Tutoring Lab (3) (18 hrs.)
Field Experiences
Field experiences begin the freshman year. In the form of small field experiences
(eight hours in a math methods class) or large field experiences (three semester
hours field experience class that accumulates 40 hours), they will be offered
through to the senior year. The site locations are in the Jacksonville and
surrounding areas' elementary schools. A major will accumulate well over the
100-clock hours of field experience.
These field experiences afford the major at MacMurray College
time in elementary classrooms working beside a teacher, with
students, and with the paperwork. They provide an opportunity
for the major to see a teacher implementing a strategy read about
in their textbook or discussed in class. And most importantly
they provide the major a chance to plan, teach, and evaluate
their own lessons along with handling the classroom's discipline.
The major is placed, supervised, and observed in a teaching role
during these field experiences by a department staff member.
Clinical practice is completed either semester of the senior
year, but only after all professional coursework is completed.
It is a fifteen-week experience that includes four seminars (at
the end of the day) on campus with fellow teaching candidates.
The college's supervising teacher provides support and observes
(both announced and unannounced) four times. A three-way (teaching
candidate, cooperating teacher, and college supervising teacher)
midterm and final conference are also conducted.
Faculty
Guy F. Crumley, MSEd
Director of Elementary Education Program
and Associate Professor
Professor Crumley earned his MSEd at Western Illinois
University and his BA at MacMurray College. He has taught at MacMurray
College in the Education Department since 1982 and has twelve and one-half
years experience teaching in the public elementary schools. He is advisor
to the elementary education majors; teaches the introductory course,
the language arts methods and social studies/science methods courses,
the junior seminar course, and supervises teaching candidates. He coordinates
the partnership with Four Counties for Kids. Mr. Crumley also has served
on numerous community and church boards. He is a member of the National
Education Association, the Association for Supervision and Curriculum
Development, and Phi Delta Kappa.
E-mail: guy.crumley@mac.edu
Julie Applebee, MSEd
Supervisor of Field Experiences and Instructor
Ms. Applebee earned her MSEd at Western Illinois University in Early Childhood
Education and her BA at MacMurray College in Special Education. She has six
years teaching experience in special education and fourteen years experience
as a kindergarten teacher.
E-mail: julie.applebee@mac.edu
Accreditation
The MacMurray College Department of Education
and its Elementary Education Program are accredited through the
Illinois State Board of Education. Candidates completing the
requirements for graduation from MacMurray College and its Elementary
Education Program along with passage of the Assessment of Professional
Teaching Test are eligible for certification in Elementary Teaching
- certificate type (03).
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