Teacher Education Department
410 S 3rd Street, River Falls, WI 54022 Phone 715.425.3230

Elementary Education

The Elementary Education Program is approved by the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction. [External link] The program meets all the standards established by national professional organizations with a dynamic professional education faculty who will help you develop a strong knowledge base in your discipline and in the pedagogical skills to teach it. We have excellent resources to assist you in becoming an effective teacher. Our most important resource is the faculty who represent a diversity in ideas, philosophies, cultures and academic backgrounds, and our outstanding teachers, learners and scholars. We also provide you with instructional technology resources through the Educational Technology Center located in our new Teacher Education Building.

Levels of Certification:

Early Childhood to Middle Childhood:
Undergraduate Elementary Education major with a minor in Early Childhood.

Graduate Initial Certification Program in Elementary Education and completing all the course work as indicated in the undergraduate Early Childhood minor.

Middle Childhood to Early Adolescence:
Undergraduate Elementary Education major with an approved minor (see list below)

Graduate Initial Certification Program in Elementary Education and completion of an undergraduate degree major or minor in one of the following areas:

Anthropology
Biology
Chemistry
Communicative Disorders
Computer Science
Dance
Earth Science
Economics
English
English as a Second Language
Modern Language
Geography
Health Education

History
Journalism
Language Arts/Reading
Mathematics
Philosophy
Physics
Political Science
Psychology
Science
Speech Communication
Social Studies
Sociology