Associate in Arts
This associate degree program prepares students for transfer into a bachelor's degree program in secondary education at a 4-year college or university. This program covers the first 2 years of instruction, and:
- Includes the general education courses,
- Issued by most secondary education programs in Michigan, and
- Prepares students for the state-mandated basic skills tests.
Details of skills students will learn for Secondary Education (AASECO) include:
- Critical thinking and problem solving
- How the brain learns
- Brain specialization and learning
- How stress impacts learning
- How to apply the hierarchy of learning
- How boys and girls learn differently
- Teaching and learning styles
- How to develop a lesson plan
- How to design a rubric
- How to apply Bloom's Taxonomy to lesson plans and lectures
- Classroom management
- Planning Special Education
- IEP (Individual Education Plan) preparation
- Teaching strategy preparation for vision and hearing impairments
- Teaching strategy preparation for speech and language disabilities
- Teaching strategy preparation for intellectual disabilities
- How to write a grant proposal
- How to develop a teaching portfolio
- How to develop rubrics
- Critical thinking and problem solving
Admission Requirements to 4-year Colleges
Requirements may vary among colleges. Students should obtain the current curriculum from the college to which they are transferring and talk to an undergraduate advisor early in their studies. Curriculum and admission requirements are available on most colleges' websites.
Ongoing Requirements
To be admitted to most bachelor degree teacher education programs, students must have:
- a minimum grade point average of 2.0 for courses to transfer,
- a minimum 60 college credits completed, and
- successfully completed the state-mandated basic skills test.
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