School of Education - 2023

School of Education

A Note Associate Dean FROM THE

Reach and teach all populations with equal parts passion and scholarship.

At Emmanuel’s School of Education, you will train in current theory and researchbased practice in the design, delivery, and management of curriculum and instruction, from the exploration of access and equity in the history of American education to in-class instruction and site placements. Using Boston as an extended classroom, you will explore a variety of learning styles and instructional methods to meet the needs of all students.

The School’s undergraduate programs in elementary and secondary education prepare students to be leaders in creating—in their classrooms and communities—a culture of

collaborative inquiry centered on student learning and healthy development and deeply rooted in social justice. Practical knowledge and real-world training with a focus on urban education and culturally responsive teaching come together to help students build a thriving classroom—and a successful career.

The School of Education is truly a vibrant, creative and supportive community of teaching and learning. I hope you sense this excitement as you learn more about our programs.

Sr. Karen Hokanson, SNDdeN, Ed.D. Associate Dean of the School of Education

BOSTON:

A City of Firsts

MAJOR: Elementary Education

CURRENTLY:

Second Grade Teacher, OLPH Mission Grammar School

TEACHING SITES IN BOSTON:

Boston Latin School

Cathedral High School

Amos A. Lawrence School

Eliot Innovation School

Fenway High School

Mildred Avenue School

OLPH Mission Grammar School

Patrick J. Kennedy Elementary School

Richard J. Murphy School

St. John Paul II Catholic Academy

Maurice J. Tobin School

Boston always ranks at the top of the country’s “most educated cities” lists, and it should come as no surprise—education is in our DNA.

Boston is home to the first public school in the United States, with the founding of Boston Latin School in 1635. Other firsts followed—the first public elementary school, first public school system and first public high school.

And to this day, it’s the students who are put first. The city of Boston alone is home to nearly 75,000 school-aged children across the city’s 125 public schools, as well as dozens of parochial and private schools. Boston’s schools are focused on closing achievement gaps and making a successful future a reality for all. Boston’s schoolteachers are trained to help students realize their academic potential; to eradicate language, social, cultural or economic barriers; and to prepare students for the future—for college, for the Innovation Economy, for STEM careers, and for making a difference in their communities.

Above Right: Michael Morris ’14, G ’20

Here.

Emmanuel’s School of Education strives to lead in urban education, with regular symposiums and workshops focused on becoming culturally responsive educators. Students begin their journeys with a service-learning course, in which they devote time to the Sr. Mary Hart Children’s Program or the TSN Cyber Café at St. Katharine Drexel Parish in Roxbury. As they begin to find their niche in the field, they complete research projects alongside faculty or to receive Distinction in the Field of Study upon graduation. They present on using creativity to enhance understanding and reduce anxiety around mathematics, inviting student culture into the classroom community, the importance of movement in the classroom, and many other topics surrounding inclusion and modified curriculum for varying abilities.

Honored.

Emmanuel College’s School of Education programs have received state and national recognition for inclusivity, math education and overall excellence in teacher candidate preparation.

• In 2021, the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education gave Emmanuel’s programs full approval for meeting the state standards for preparing effective educators.

• In 2022, the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) named Emmanuel an “Equitable and Excellent” teacher preparation institution, as the College’s test takers of color pass the Massachusetts Tests for Educator Licensure (MTEL) at a rate above the state average for all test takers and with little to no racial disparity at their home institution.

• In 2022, the NCTQ also named Emmanuel among the top in the country for ensuring future elementary teachers have the essential content and pedagogy needed to teach mathematics. The College was one of only 79 programs in the nation to earn an A+ designation

There. Everywhere.

Before heading into the world to teach, allow the world to teach you—a language, a culture, a new way of communicating. Emmanuel offers more than 500 study abroad programs to 65+ countries, with lessons to be learned in each.

AMIE KNOWLES ’20

As an Emmanuel undergraduate, Amie studied abroad in Rome through AIFS, where she jumped at a volunteer opportunity to teach English at a local primary school.

With no experience in the Italian language, Amie was placed in a class of more than 20 third graders who spoke just as little English. “I realized how much of a challenge the language barrier would be,” she said. “I had to find unique ways to teach the students.”

With a little practice, Amie and her students began to create their own learning language using pictures, hand gestures and Google Translate. “Lessons became kind of like games of charades,” she said. “I developed a new appreciation for education, because it showed me you can learn just as much from your students as your students learn from you.

“On my last day, I decided to say my goodbyes in Italian. I wanted the students to see how much they helped me grow as an Italian speaker. This experience gave me a deeper understanding of life after college and of myself as a future educator.”

Since graduation, Amie has served as an English Language Assistant at Meddeas, in Madrid.

“I found a new love for my major in an unexpected place, 4,089 miles away.”

RECENT GRADS

Molly Sloan ’19

MAJOR: Elementary Education

PRACTICUM: OLPH Mission Grammar School, Boston

RESEARCH FOCUS: “Where is the self-love?: A six-week pilot program to foster self-love using culturally relevant pedagogy”

CURRENTLY: K2 Teacher, OLPH Mission Grammar School; M.Ed., Boston College’s Urban Catholic Teaching Corps

Reilly Pfirrman ’22

MAJORS: Secondary Education and English

PRACTICUM: Madison Park Technical Vocational High School

CURRENTLY: English Teacher, Madison Park Technical Vocational High School

A Glimpse Curriculum

MANAGING THE CLASSROOM LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

The ultimate goal for any teacher is an academically and socially productive classroom with focused, courteous students. This course is a study of different approaches to classroom management in grades 5-8 and 8-12, and will assist you in fostering your skills and techniques such as building relationships, setting rules and expectations, building a culture of mutual respect, focusing on strengths, encouraging initiative and addressing problematic behavior. You will develop competencies in various approaches to classroom management, as well as address questions concerning goals, curriculum, discipline, motivation and instructional method.

EDUCATING DIVERSE STUDENTS

This course is designed to develop leaders who are equipped to address challenges to educational equity that are rooted in U.S. history and prevalent in the contemporary field of education. The course will use case studies to examine and respond to these issues of unequal access with attention to the historical and contemporary causes (financial inequality, unstable home environments, lack of mental health services, language barriers, etc.). You will be able to analyze and address these issues on the micro and macro levels and use an array of sources to inform particular challenges of educational practice. As a capstone project, you will work to identify an issue and create an initiative to achieve equality.

Jonathan Torres-Lopez ’23

MAJORS: Secondary Education and History, concentration in Digital History

PRACTICUM: Cathedral High School, Boston

As a future educator, Jonathan understands there is a lesson to be learned in everything.

When COVID-19 moved his Emmanuel courses and pre-practicum at the Richard J. Murphy K-8 School online, he became both a virtual learner and a virtual instructor for the first time. He found himself paying special attention to the practices of his Emmanuel faculty, both in how they delivered material and how they checked in with students’ wellbeing every day.

The Braintree, Mass. native took these and other lessons with him to his student-teaching practicum at Cathedral High School during the Fall 2022 semester, where he taught four sections of 10thgrade World History I & II. There, he found a new set of challenges.

In addition to his teaching license, Jonathan is earning additional certification in moderate disabilities. During his final semester at Emmanuel, he plans to get into substitute teaching to continue building his skills in different classroom environments, before he pursues teaching middleor high-school history full-time after graduation.

“Because of language barriers, it was clear I needed to find different modes and methods of teaching,” he said.

“Through my concentration in digital history, I have been able to take classes in programming and design, and I employed many of those techniques to keep students visually engaged.”

Little Prep Talk A

Using Greater Boston as an extended classroom, students in Emmanuel’s School of Education have the opportunity for field-based teaching experiences (both pre-practicums and student-teaching practicums) in a wide variety of school settings (public, private, charter, pilot and Catholic), allowing for firsthand observation and engaging with learners from all cultures and with diverse instructional needs.

If you’re looking to explore all opportunities available to education majors, Emmanuel’s Leslie Ferrick McCafferty Career Center has a designated career community for students interested in education and youth development, with specialized recruiting opportunities and events to build your networking skills—and your resume.

• Gain career insight and inspiration through professional panels and networking events, such as the annual Urban Education Symposium and our Career Community Panels, in which alumni and industry professionals share insights into their careers and graduate school experiences.

• Get face time with recruiters through the annual non-profit career fair, as well as the McCafferty Career Center’s Industry Recruitment Series, in which recruiters meet with students “speed-dating style” to provide information about their organizations, culture, hiring timelines and application procedures.

• Take advantage of our professional partnerships with regular offcampus events, such as the Massachusetts Educational Recruiting Consortium (MERC), a must-attend for education majors to learn about the more than 150 school systems from across New England that participate in this event each year.

Angela Girodier ’22

MAJORS: Secondary Education and Biology

AFTER GRADUATION: Biotechnology Teacher, Brockton High School

When asking secondary education and biology double major Angela Girodier ’22 if she’s more passionate about research or teaching, she quickly and emphatically says “both.”

As an Emmanuel student, Angela balanced her time between coursework, student-teaching and a research internship at Merck Research Laboratories-Boston, all with the goal of creating more STEM opportunities close to home.

As a student, Angela noticed that her “a-ha” moments came from professors that ensured concepts were clear and understood—something she wants to model for her own students. “I want to ensure any student can have an ‘a-ha’ moment. There is no such thing as not being smart enough.”

For her student-teaching practicum—and for her first teaching role post-graduation—Angela returned to her alma mater, Brockton High School. “I had students who thought they would never be able to maintain an A for a term, but with the proper learning experiences and supports, they were able to do it. It made me truly feel I was making a difference in their lives.”

“We see a lack of students in STEM fields who have come from backgrounds similar to mine due to the lack of opportunities and support. I want to transfer my knowledge and my journey in STEM education to students and inspire them to learn and to not give up. If I can do it, so can they.”

Lifelong Learning

By one year after graduation, 100% of the School of Education Class of 2021 were either employed, enrolled in graduate school, or engaged in military service. These graduates are teaching in public, private and charter schools in seven different Massachusetts school districts, as well as at institutions in New York, Connecticut and Florida.

Our students are limited only by their ambition—take a look at the far-reaching effects of just a few of our recent graduates.

SECONDARY EDUCATION

KatrinaBesse’15

Biology;G’16,M.Ed.inSecondaryEducation

ScienceTeacher, BishopStangHighSchool

BriannaWiseman’15

SecondaryEducationandMathematics

InvestmentProductionSeniorManager,Fidelity

ELEMENTARY EDUCATION

EmilySolup’16

SecondaryEducationandHistory

HighSchoolSupportServicesTeacher, BostonPreparatoryCharterSchool

TylerJackowski’19

SecondaryEducationandEnglish

UpperSchoolHumanitiesTeacher, OLPHMissionGrammarSchool

KellyBagdonas’20

SecondaryEducationandBiologyScienceTeacher, BostonLatinSchool

AlieceWellerDutson’05

OLPHPresident,MissionGrammarSchool

KristenGoncalves’09

PJPrincipal,KennedyElementarySchool

PierceFifthGradeTeacher School,Brookline

CourtneyMacIntyre’19

SaintFirstGradeTeacher

SarahThomas’21

JohnPaulIICatholicAcademy

ArthurFifthGradeTeacher

MikaylaCoyne’19

T.CummingsElementarySchool

Program Overview

EDUCATION

EDUCATIONAL STUDIES

ELEMENTARY EDUCATION

MATH EDUCATION

SECONDARY EDUCATION

ART BIOLOGY

CHEMISTRY

ENGLISH LITERATURE

HISTORY

MATHEMATICS

SPANISH

The School of Education is also home to several graduate and professional programs:

Major

Minor Subject Area for Licensure

EARLY ENTRY PROGRAM

(earn your graduate degree in as little as a year after earning your bachelor’s degree)

Master of Education (M.Ed.) with concentrations in licensure or research

GRADUATE CERTIFICATES

Instructional Technology for Educators

Sheltered English Immersion

Teaching Students with Moderate Disabilities

Emmanuel College

School of Education

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