School of Education
Dr. Emily Jackson-Osagie, Department Chair, Department of Curriculum & Instruction
Ms. Deborah Washington, Administrative Assistant, School of Education
The School of Education prepares diverse professionals who foster learning by utilizing technology and best practices in diverse educational and clinical environments. The School of Education offers programs designed to prepare educational leaders who become teachers, administrators, and clinical practitioners.
The school consists of two departments: Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Leadership, which is a graduate program. Consult the graduate catalog for more information on graduate programs in the School of Education. Centers dedicated to research, technology, and professional development are also housed in the School of Education. The Southern University Laboratory School serves as a primary site for clinical/field experiences of students in the school.
Undergraduate degrees offered are Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education and Bachelor of Science in General Special Education (grades 1-5 and 4-8). The graduate degrees offered are the Master of Arts in Teaching and the Master of Education in Educational Leadership.
The school also offers several minors that lead to secondary certification in Biology, Chemistry, English, History, Mathematics, Music, and Physics.
Graduates of the school’s teacher program are critical thinking professionals who model best practices and engage learners from multicultural and global perspectives.
Graduates are expected to demonstrate knowledge of the major concepts, principles, theories, values, methods of inquiry, and uses of technology in the content they will teach. They also are expected to show understanding of relationships between the technical (pedagogical and behavior management techniques) and normative (social, political, and cultural) aspects of schooling.
Programs:
Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Leadership
Degree Requirements of the Department:
Students who wish to be certified to teach in the state of Louisiana must pass the appropriate PRAXIS examinations required by the state of Louisiana prior to teacher education, PRAXIS I, and prior to beginning in student teaching, PRAXIS II. Students may use a score of 22 on ACT or SAT combined verbal and math score of 1030 in lieu of PRAXIS I scores. Teacher education programs are designed to follow the curriculum guidelines set by the college as well as those set by the appropriate professional organizations and learned societies in education.
Alternative Certification
The School of Education, through the Louisiana Department of Education, offers a Non-Masters Alternate Certification Program, which was designed with the intent of augmenting the number of certified teachers in the State of Louisiana. With the goal of making the pursuit of certification more attractive to individuals who already hold the bachelor’s degree, but not certification, the program has been redesigned so that coursework can be completed in one year. The program requires a one-year internship.
Candidates must satisfy admission requirements stipulated by Southern University and must be officially admitted to the Alternate Certification Program before pursuing any coursework.
Transfer Credit
Students who transfer from other divisions of the University and accredited colleges and universities must meet the same eligibility requirements stated above. The College of Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies will determine the acceptability of transfers credits to the respective degree programs and may decline to accept transfer credit for any course when the grade earned is lower than a “C.”