Master of Education in Urban Teaching and Joint Teacher Certification

The Program

The Teacher Certification Program (TCP)  offers a post baccalaureate path to certification for individuals seeking a career in secondary school teaching. This joint program offered by the Providence College Schools of Continuing Education and School of Education and Social Work provides graduate degree path to secondary certification and focuses on training teachers to succeed in diverse, urban classrooms. In other words, it’s real preparation for real classrooms - those with the most need.

The curriculum addresses the biggest challenges in today’s urban high school classroom. You’ll learn about classroom management, cultural competency, project-based learning, and ESL methods, among other best practices. We prepare teachers to engage students and help them set and achieve their academic goals.

Program Goals:

• To prepare teachers for increasingly diverse schools and for teacher-shortage areas
• To reduce the achievement gap in urban schools by encouraging and preparing individuals to teach in these settings using specialized methods
• To encourage career changers - especially those with backgrounds outside of education, such as science, business, and law - to pursue careers in education

Students in the joint program are responsible to both SCE and Graduate academic policies, including admissions requirements, satisfactory progress and general degree requirements as delineated in the Graduate Catalog. 

Please contact the program director, Christine McMahon, at 401.865.2852 or view the TCP website: https://education-social-work.providence.edu/teacher-certification-program/ for more information.

Requirements:

• EDU 791 Educational Psychology
         
• EDU 792 Principles of Secondary Education
     
• EDU 622 Literacy in the Content Area
     
• EDU 785 Educational Measurement
     
• EDU 786 The Exceptional Child in the Regular Classroom
     
• EDU 787 General Methods
     
• EDU 455 Student Teaching in the Secondary School
     
• EDU 661 Culturally Competent Teaching
    
• EDU 662 Differentiating Instruction for Diverse Urban Learners
    
• EDU 703: Methods and Materials in ESL Education
• EDU 663 Multicultural Seminar
       
• EDU 664 Capstone: Successful Urban Teaching