 Arcadia University General Information
A leader in international study, Arcadia University is a coeducational, comprehensive
University in suburban Philadelphia offering undergraduate and graduate study to more than
3,400 students. Founded in 1853, Arcadia's 60-acre campus Grey Towers Castle, a national
historic landmark.
Arcadia's Center for Education Abroad, top-ranked in the nation by U.S. News, is one of the
largest campus-based international study programs in the United States, serving an additional
2,000 students from nearly 300 American universities. Arcadia's unique First Year Study Abroad
Experience (FYSAE) and London/Scotland Preview Programs have been recognized by the
carnegie Foundation as two of the most innovative in the country and the University
emphasizes a global perspective in its classrooms.
Arcadia is ranked among the top universities in the north by U.S. News, Barron's has named
Arcadia a "best buy" for the past 13 years and Princeton Review puts the University in the top
25 percent of schools in the nation. Arcadia's alumni take great pride in their University. Their
undergraduate giving rate has been recognized as one of the highest in the country.
Did you know?
Not only does Arcadia University offer a wide variety of teacher certification programs,
they provide education majors with a number of study abroad opportunities. Education majors
are encouraged to consider spending a semester abroad, in England, Ireland, or Australia and
both junior year programs and opportunities for student teaching are available. Students who
study abroad strengthen their teaching skills through field experiences in schools in another
country and enhance their knowledge of the field of education through the courses they take overseas.
They also get a chance to experience a different system of education, oftentimes very different
than what they know from the United States. Courses taken through these programs will be accepted
toward an Arcadia degree. Currently programs exist in: England at Canterbury Christ Church College
(student teaching), Goldsmiths College, University of York and Porlock Hall in London (student teaching);
Ireland at Queens University, Trinity College in Dublin and the University of Limerick; and
Australia at Griffith University and University of Wollongong.
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Bryn Mawr College General Information
Bryn Mawr College is a highly selective liberal-arts college in suburban Philadelphia for students
who share an intense intellectual commitment, a self-directed and purposeful vision of their lives,
and a desire to make meaningful contributions to the world. Bryn Mawr comprises an undergraduate
college with 1,200 women, two coeducational graduate schools and a coeducational postbaccaluareate
premedical program.
In addition to its reputation as an exceptional women's college, Bryn Mawr has an extraordinary record
of accomplishment in the sciences. Overall, Bryn Mawr students are nine times more likely to earn bachelor's
degrees in the sciences and mathematics than the national average for women undergraduates, and four
times more likely than the national average for all undergraduates.
Bryn Mawr also ranks first among women's colleges - and is among the top 10 of all U.S. colleges
and universities - in the percentage of women who go on to earn Ph.D. degrees in the sciences and
mathematics. And Bryn Mawr is the only women's college and one of five liberal arts colleges among
the top 10 institutions in the nation with the highest percentage of winners of the National Science
Foundation Graduate Fellowships.
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Bryn Mawr and Haverford College have a combined education program, which offers several options to
students interested in education or teaching. Education courses include both extensive exploration of
educational theory and field placement opportunities, which range from two hours per week in the introductory
course to full-time student teaching in the culminating course required for certification. There are
currently over 100 students enrolled in one of the program's formal options, and many more who take
courses independently.
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Cedar Crest College General Information
Cedar Crest College is located in suburban, park-like setting in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
It is one hour from Philadelphia, less than two hours from New York City, and three
hours from Washington, D.C. Cedar Crest was founded in 1867 and has an 84-acre
campus with a nationally registered arboretum with more than 130 species of trees.
The college has an enrollment of more than 1,400 students from 27 states from Maine
to Alaska and 20 countries including Ghana, India, Japan, Ukraine, Nepal, Peru and South
Africa.
Cedar Crest College believes, in addition to strengthening knowledge, skills and
experience, a liberal arts education should prepare students be good citizens who value
engagement in the world and have a voice in the community.
Did you know?
Cedar Crest College offers certification in elementary and secondary education as well as
a Masters in Education of Learning and Teaching in a Democratic Society. The Education Department
of Cedar Crest College is committed to the preparation of education professionals who have the
knowledge base, skills and values that allow them to provide high-quality educational experiences
for K-12 students.
Cedar Crest seeks to prepare teachers to become active participants in our
democratic society and in the political processes that develop policy related to educating the
nation's children and youth -- especially through service as advocates for both students and the profession.
Through partnerships with local school districts, the community and the greater college community,
Cedar Crest seeks to foster the development of teachers who are role models themselves and who
actively seek enrichment and extension of their knowledge, abilities and values as lifelong learners.
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Haverford College
Haverford is a coeducational undergraduate liberal arts college founded in 1833
by members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).
While the College is not formally affiliated with any religious body today,
the values of individual dignity, academic strength, and tolerance upon which
it was founded remain central to its character.
Haverford College offers an atmosphere of intellectual challenge,
excitement, and growth in a close-knit community that is dedicated to
encouraging humane values during the undergraduate years... and for a lifetime.
Haverford College is located just ten miles away from the cultural and
educational resources of Philadelphia.
In contrast to the city, Haverford has a park-like 216-acre campus.
Originally landscaped by the English gardener William Carvill,
the campus includes more 400 species of trees and shrubs, a nature walk,
and a duck pond.
The varied architectural styles of campus buildings, representing more
than 150 years of architectural evolution, give the campus a unique
character and charm.
The newest buildings are the 188,000-square-foot Koshland Integrated Natural Sciences Center and,
due to open in January 2006, the 100,000-square-foot Gardner Integrated Athletic Center.
Did you know?
Haverford and Bryn Mawr have a combined education program,
which offers several options to Haverford and Bryn Mawr Alumni
interested in education or teaching.
Education courses include both extensive exploration of
educational theory and field placement opportunities,
which range from two hours per week in the introductory
course to full-time student teaching in the culminating
course required for certification.
There are currently over 100 students enrolled in one of
the program's formal options, and many more who take
courses independently.
Haverford and Bryn Mawr students may:
- explore one or more aspects of education in areas of particular interest —
such as urban schooling — by enrolling in single courses;
- pursue a Minor in Educational Studies;
- pursue Secondary Teacher Certification to teach in public secondary school;
- enroll as post-graduates to complete their secondary teacher certification program, at reduced cost; or
- complete elementary certification through the Swarthmore/Eastern College
elementary education certification program.
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La Salle University
La Salle is an independent, coeducational university founded in 1863 by the
De La Salle Christian Brothers, a Catholic order dedicated to teaching and
career preparation.
The main campus is located just minutes from Center City Philadelphia on
a beautiful 100-acre campus.
It includes 12 acres of woods and gardens, the restored 18th century home
of American portrait painter Charles Willson Peale, and one of the finest
college art museums on the East Coast. The University's Bucks County
Center is located in Newtown, Pa.
The University has been ranked among the country's top
schools by U.S. News & World Report, Barron's, Money magazine,
and The New York Times.
The University offers undergraduate concentrations in nearly 60
academic areas within its three schools:
Arts & Sciences, Business Administration, and Nursing.
La Salle also offers 14 graduate programs, including the
University's first doctoral program (in clinical psychology).
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Undergraduate Program
La Salle University offers an exciting and innovative undergraduate program
in secondary education that is approved by the Pennsylvania Department of
Education and leads to recommendation for an Instructional I certificate
in Biology, Citizenship Education (History), Communications, English,
Foreign Languages, Chemistry, General Science, Earth and Space Science,
and Mathematics.
La Salle's Undergraduate Program in Secondary Education offers:
- Field placement beginning in the first year.
- Newly instituted Adolescent Development course in the
second year featuring a problem-based learning approach.
- 96% of our secondary education majors successfully pass the PRAXIS Professional Knowledge test.
- Award winning faculty who are experienced and certified secondary educators.
Graduate Program
For years, the traditional school-as-factory model has been the core
of most teacher education programs.
But La Salle's Graduate Program in Education offers a unique
alternative that views each child as an individual learner
with needs that often can't be met through an industrialized
approach to education.
La Salle's Graduate Program in Education offers:
- In-service continuing education and Master of Arts in Education for practicing teachers.
- Dual certification in elementary and special education.
- Certification in many secondary teaching areas.
Both part-time and full-time study options are available.
Field work is mixed with classroom instruction throughout the program.
- ESL Certification.
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Lehigh Carbon County Communty College
Wherever you want to go, LCCC is the smart place to start. When you choose to invest in
yourself through LCCC, you're making a savvy business decision, and embarking on an
educational experience that can change your life. Are you just beginning your life's
adventures? Strengthening an already rewarding career? Or primed to change gears mid-
stream? At LCCC we want you to succeed, and your resources to be limitless!LCCC offers day
and evening classes and has four convenient campuses: Schnecksville Main Campus in Schnecksville,
PA; The Donley Center in Allentown, PA; the Carbon Site in Nesquehoning, PA; and the
Schuylkill Site in Tamaqua, PA.
Did you know?
LCCC''s pre-professional education program provides a foundation for study toward a
bachelor's degree in Early Childhood, Elementary, Special Education and Secondary
Education. The wide range of electives permits the student to select courses that will
fulfill requirements of the four-year college or university to which they wish to transfer.
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Lincoln University
Located in the Chester County, PA, Lincoln is surrounded by rolling farmlands and
wooded hilltops. Its campus is conveniently located on Baltimore Pike, about one mile off
US Route 1 - 45 miles southwest of Philadelphia, 15 miles northwest of Newark,
Delaware, 25 miles west of Wilmington, Delaware, and 55 miles north of Baltimore,
Maryland. The University is proud of its faculty for the high quality of their teaching,
research, and service, and of its alumni, among the most notable of whom are: Langston
Hughes, '29, world-acclaimed poet; Thurgood Marshall, '30, first African-American
Justice of the US Supreme Court; Hildrus A. Poindexter, '24, internationally known
authority on tropical diseases; Roscoe Lee Browne, '46, author and widely acclaimed actor
of stage and screen; Jacqueline Allen, '74, judge for the Court of Common Pleas,
Philadelphia; and Eric C. Webb, '91, author, poet and editor-in-chief of Souls of People.
Did you know?
Graduate programs are offered at Lincoln University's Center for Graduate Studies and
Continuing Education, located conveniently at 3020 Market Street in Philadelphia -
one block from the 30th Street Train Station. Lincoln University's Graduate Programs
include the Master of Education (with concentrations in Elementary, Biology/7-12,
Chemistry/7-12, Mathematics/7-12, Physics/7-12), as well as teacher certification programs.
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Moravian College
Tracing its founding to 1742, Moravian College is recognized as America's sixth-oldest college,
after Harvard (1636), William and Mary (1693), St. John's in Annapolis (1696), Yale (1701), and
the University of Pennsylvania (1740). Its mission is the integration of a liberal arts education
with preparation for life. Moravian aims to give its students a foundation for careers or
graduate/professional school, for continued lifelong learning, and for a values-oriented approach to society.
Moravian College is located in historic Bethlehem Pennsylvania approximately 60 miles north of Philadelphia
and 90 miles west of New York. Bethlehem is an attractive tree-lined city of 75,000 in the center
of the Lehigh Valley community, with a population of more than 600,000. Known as the Christmas
City, Bethlehem is home also for Bethlehem Steel Corporation and a growing number of businesses
in service and technology fields.
Did you know?
Moravian College offers approved teacher certification programs in the following areas of secondary education
biology, chemistry, citizenship education (firmly social studies), English, French (K-12), general science,
German (K-12), Latin (K-12), mathematics, physics, and Spanish (K-12). Moravian also offers a master of education
degree in curriculum and instruction has been designed to fit the specific needs of practicing teachers. Each course
in the program is immediately applicable to the classroom, with an underlying philosophy of reflective teaching
and a focus on action research. This thirty-three credit program requires no admission exams or entrance essays,
only a sincere interest in improving teaching practice. Courses are available to all certified teachers
and may be taken as part of the larger M.Ed. program, to satisfy Act 48 requirements, or simply for intellectual
and professional enrichment.
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Muhlenberg College
Muhlenberg College is an independent, undergraduate, coeducational institution affiliated with the
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Founded in 1848 to provide a liberal arts education in the
Christian humanistic tradition, Muhlenberg is committed to high standards of academic integrity and
excellence. Flexibility is provided with sensitivity to the individual needs of the student through
course options and opportunities for independent study, research and internships, as well as through
a plan for self-designed majors. Through a process of long-range planning and constant review the college
strives to keep its curriculum vital and current with the rapidly changing intellectual world.
The College is located in Allentown, Pennsylvania, approximately 55 miles north of Philadelphia and 90 miles west of New York City.
Did you know?
Muhlenberg's Teacher Education Program has a strong commitment to field experience.
They believe that fieldwork provides an invaluable opportunity for students to see and
directly experience theory translated into practice. Students begin fieldwork early in their
course sequence which allows for multiple and varied experiences as they progress through their
course work. Every course beyond Education 101 has a fieldwork requirement. Early and ongoing
fieldwork experience helps students to clarify their professional goals, to link their course
work with actual classroom practice while gaining increased insight into the craft of teaching
and to acquire increased levels of confidence. These goals may be attained by students taking
part in a variety of tasks such as 1)tutoring individual students and working on individualized
activities 2)leading small group activities 3)reading to students 4)helping students with seatwork
5)developing and assisting with student learning centers 6)creating, developing and teaching a lesson
7) helping students with library research 8)assisting with the use of appropriate technology
9)assisting on fieldtrips 10)correcting papers and 11)creating materials and bulletin boards.
Muhlenberg wants students to meaningfully participate in the classroom and not just to observe.
The reflective model of teacher education is one Muhlenberg strongly endorse and strive to incorporate
throughout their program. Students need to gain insight into not only what teachers do but more importantly
why and how they do it.
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Northampton Community College
For more than 35 years, Northampton Community College in Bethlehem, Pa., has focused on offering a wide
variety of courses at an affordable price, without sacrificing quality of instruction. NCC offers recent
high school graduates, as well as adult learners, a variety of credit and non-credit classes, offered
during the day, evening, and on weekends. NCC's graduates have gone on to study at area four-year schools,
as well as other colleges and universities across the country. They do well once they get there, and often
save thousands on the cost of an advanced degree. Located 90 miles west of New York City and 60 miles north
of Philadelphia in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Northampton is one of few community colleges that offers campus
housing.
Did you know?
Northampton is committed to providing an excellent foundation for students preparing to major in elementary
or secondary education when they transfer to a four-year college or university. The college offers the first
two years of the baccalaureate degree program. Completion of the Associates in Arts Degree with a major in
education allows for a smooth transition to a four-year institution for advanced courses leading to a degree
and certification as an elementary or secondary teacher. Because of the large number of electives, Northampton's
program is a flexible one which allows students to select courses for their individual transfer needs. For
added convenience, the courses in the education program are also generally offered in the evening hours.
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Villanova University
Villanova University is an independent coeducational institute of higher learning founded by the Augustinian
Order of the Roman Catholic Church. The University is a community of persons of diverse professional,
academic, and personal interests who in a spirit of collegiality cooperate to achieve their common goals
and objectives in the transmission, the pursuit, and the discovery of knowledge. This community serves
society by developing and sustaining an academic environment in which the potentialities of its members
may be realized. Villanova is committed to those same high goals and standards of academic integrity
and excellence as well as personal and corporate achievement that characterize all worthy institutions
of higher learning
Did you know?
There are several options for people interested in the secondary teacher education program. If you do not already
have a bachelor's degree, you can earn your Bachelor of Science in Education. If you already have your bachelor's
degree, then you can focus only on those courses necessary for Teacher Certification. And if you already are a
certified teacher, but want to change your area of specialization, we can help you as well.
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West Chester University
West Chester University, a member of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, is a public,
regional, comprehensive institution committed to building cohesive linkages with other public educational
institutions in the Commonwealth. Strategically located in the rapidly growing southeastern region of the
state, the University contributes to and benefits from the educational, cultural, and economic climate
of the region, the historical richness of Chester County, and the diversity of the metropolitan center
of Philadelphia.
Did you know?
Did you know that the School of Education at West Chester University of Pennsylvania is the home of the
Institute for Educational Excellence & Entrepreneurship (3E Institute). West Chester University is the
flagship university among the 14 institutions that comprise the Pennsylvania State System of Higher
Education and graduates more teachers each year than any other university in Pennsylvania.
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Widener University
Founded in 1821, Widener University is a multicampus, independent, metropolitan university.
It offers a student-centered learning environment where course work connects to societal issues.
Dynamic teaching, active scholarship, personal attention, and experiential learning are key components
of the Widener experience. Widener's Main Campus is only 15 minutes from historic Philadelphia,
two hours from both New York City and Washington, D.C., and one and a half hours from Baltimore,
the New Jersey beaches, or Pocono ski resorts. The campus is easy to get to from I-95 and I-476, is
less than 10 minutes from the Philadelphia International Airport, and is an easy commute from southern
New Jersey and Wilmington, Delaware.
Did you know?
Widener University's Center for Education is a comprehensive unit that offers a full complement of undergraduate,
master's, and doctoral programs. They also have a number of off-campus programs at both the master's and doctoral
levels, and are fully involved with the community seven days a week. Some of the off-campus locations include:
- Berks County (Governor Mifflin High School, Shillington)
- Harrisburg (Widener Law School or York School District)
- Kutztown
- Delaware Valley College, Doylestown
- Exton
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