Inspire a New Generation with Your Elementary Education Degree
The first formal education students receive lays the foundation for student learning
throughout their lifetimes. Become their inspiration. Unlock their minds. Set them
on a path of lifelong learning and success.
South Carolina State University’s Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education is designed
to prepare teacher candidates to know, understand, and use the major concepts, principles,
theories, and research related to the development of children.
As an elementary education major, you’ll:
- Provide accurate content in various disciplines
- Integrate and apply knowledge for instruction
- Adapt to diverse student needs
- Develop teaching performance skills
- Actively engage in learning — your students’ and your own
- Communicate to foster learning
- Use formal and informal assessment strategies to plan, evaluate, and strengthen instruction
If that seems like a lot … it is. Elementary education teachers perform these feats and more every day.
Ignite your passion for elementary teacher schooling
As a South Carolina State elementary education major, you’ll learn how to develop your teaching skills and knowledge and evaluate your teaching style and effectiveness. You’ll also collaborate with families, colleagues, and the community to help foster support for elementary education and beyond.
Method of Instruction
- Face-to-face
By the Numbers
Elementary Education Major Program Highlights
Our elementary teacher schooling program is designed to provide you with the skills, insights, and knowledge to pass the state teaching certification required to become an elementary education teacher. Highlights of our elementary education major program include the ability to:
Take a big Pre-STEP toward real classroom experiences
The Pre-Student-Teaching Exploration and Practice Program (Pre-STEP) involves structured, sequential field-based experiences that allow you to engage in clinical teaching for a minimum of 150 hours prior to your formal student teaching activities. The experiences are placed strategically in the curriculum to occur during your freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior years.
Leverage extensive resources for success
As an elementary education major, you’ll benefit from access to numerous student resources to help you achieve success during your education — and even after you graduate. South Carolina State’s student success and retention programs and related services include:
- Multipurpose Academic Computer (MAC) Lab
- Peer tutorial services
- Student Leadership Orientation Program
- Preparing Undergraduates for Scholarly Holistic (PUSH) Writing Center
Receive personal attention from mentoring faculty
Our low student-to-faculty ratio (14:1) allows our elementary education faculty to provide you with personal attention and valuable mentoring. On average, 60% of our classes have fewer than 20 students.
Enjoy personalized academic advising and career services
As an elementary education major, you’ll benefit from working with academic and career advisers who offer extensive experience in elementary education, many of whom have kept their teaching certifications current.
Gain hands-on experience in a real classroom
In the final semester of your elementary teacher schooling, you’ll complete an on-site field experience as an elementary education teacher in a real classroom. You’ll provide actual instruction and teaching in elementary education guided by your program adviser and field experience teacher.