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Think EDUCATION AT ILLINOIS Connect with the future of transformative research, teaching, and learning. Join great minds driven by a passion to make education accessible to all learners from all backgrounds and abilities. Fulfilling this promise has defined the College of Education at Illinois for over 100 years. We’re changing the world, one student at a time—join us.
Great Minds THINK ILLINOIS.
TEACHER LICENSURE
PROGRAMS Our redesigned Teacher Licensure Programs will equip you with the 21st-century knowledge, skills, and sensibilities needed to teach and lead in today’s classrooms. With our focus on diversity and technology, you will be prepared to professionally engage with complex learning environments.
Our programs feature: • One-on-one attention and mentorship from leading faculty researchers • Extensive school placement and assessment with schools and community partners •E xploration of the most critical topics affecting today’s classrooms •B oth collaborative and independent research opportunities • Study abroad opportunities with a supporting $500.00 scholarship • Cross-disciplinary curriculum work through the Intrinsic Motivation project with IFoundry • Up-to-date courses aligned with Common Core and ISBE standards • Cutting-edge coursework toward ESL and Reading endorsements
We offer the following degrees: Bachelor of Science in:
Minor in Secondary School Teaching Biology, Chemistry, Earth Science, English, History, Mathematics, and Physics
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PREPARE TO CHANGE THE WORLD
“ I want to be a teacher because I want to mentor and encourage students to discover their passions and pursue their dreams.”—Jayna Butler education.illinois.edu
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN LEARNING AND EDUCATION STUDIES
Bachelor of Science in Learning and Education Studies Our non-licensure degree prepares you for a broad range of positions requiring expertise in managing change and improving the performance of learning in organizations. In order to respond to the growing demand for knowledge workers prepared to lead in today’s economy, we’ve designed four areas of concentration within the major.
Program Concentrations: Educational Equality & Cultural Understanding
Applied Learning Science
This concentration investigates how education as an institution operates and recognizes the role of the field in enabling equality and cultural understanding in domestic and international settings.
This concentration probes the foundations and ideologies of learning and the application of problem-solving skills in educational, business, and organizational contexts. The program concludes with a capstone course and research project with faculty mentorship.
• E xplore educational policy, analysis, and theory •R esearch ways to create more educational equality •U nderstand the historical place of education in challenging inequality and promoting enhanced outcomes for all
• E xamine human rights-based demands for education
• Explore theories and methods in the learning sciences • I dentify principles of learning and how to apply them • Acquire flexible learning and problem-solving skills
Workplace Training & Development
Digital Environments for Learning, Teaching, & Agency
This concentration focuses on creating, delivering, and evaluating training and development programs in workplace settings, businesses, post-secondary schools, or community and government agencies. An internship is part of the program.
This concentration focuses on the design and implementation of digital technologies that promote learning in a range of environments including classrooms, mobile devices and immersive virtual worlds, in schools, homes, museums and workplaces.
•G ain an understanding of the human resource
• E xplore theories and methods for designing and
development field with a focus on training and improving organizational performance
•A cquire practical skills in task analysis and program design
• E xplore learning management systems
implementing technology
• Identify principles of learning and instruction and the role that technology plays
• U nderstand the limits of technology, and issues of equity and access related to digital environments for learning, teaching and agency
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The Bachelor of Science in Learning and Education Studies prepares you to work in: Education, training, and management positions in agencies, businesses, government, health care, nonprofit organizations, international schools and organizations, and non-government organizations (NGO’s).
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100% of our students receive a $500 Study Abroad Scholarship to pursue their education and research.
PREPARE TO CHANGE THE WORLD
“Successful participation in contemporary society requires the ability to learn complex information to support problem solving and decision making. This curriculum prepares students for a broad range of positions requiring expertise in formal and non-
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formal learning and education. —Dr. Christopher Span Associate Dean for Academic Programs
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