Field Change
Program, 36 credits, for students with a Bachelor's degree
and initial or provisional certification (N-6, Childhood or other)
in an educational field other than early childhood.
Career Change Program, 42 credits,
for change of career students with Bachelor's degree in an area
other than education.
Empower diverse learners
- Prepare to work in a variety of early childhood settings with
children of diverse abilities and backgrounds
- Design safe, healthy environments that promote children's
positive social relationships and capacity for self-regulation
- Develop flexible strategies for fostering children's growing
understanding and mastery of different symbol systems
- Make children's progress visible by observing, documenting and
assessing their learning and your own practice
Foster rational, spirited
inquiry
- Help children actively investigate the world around them to
construct their own knowledge and acquire skills consistent with
state learning standards
- Develop your own sense of initiative and a disposition towards
curiosity and inquiry as a model for the children you teach
- Understand and evaluate research that impacts your
practice
Address issues of poverty and social
justice
- Foster a sense of caring community
- Implement anti-bias curriculum
- Advocate for children and their families
- Collaborate and communicate skillfully with co-workers,
administratores, parents and community agencies
- Tackle the challenges of urban education
Acquire competencies to lead and serve in
a technologically advanced global community
- Make technology serve your classroom needs
- Stay in touch with advisors, professors and fellow
students outside of class via online communications
Contact Information
Rebekah Fassler, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Program Coordinator
Sullivan Hall 428
Queens campus
(718) 990-1474
fasslerr@stjohns.edu
Grace Ibanez-Friedman
Assistant Professor
Sullivan Hall 426
Queens campus
(718) 990-5655
friedmag@stjohns.edu
Graduate Admission Information
School of Education
Office of Graduate Admissions
Sullivan Hall SB 9
(718) 990-2304
graded@stjohns.edu
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