Our teaching credential programs are the most well-respected in the educational community, and our students emerge as highly-qualified educators with the ability to teach in public/private schools throughout California from 6th through 12th grade. Our programs combine current research and theory with real-life classroom experience to round out your education. Coupled with Saint Mary’s Lasallian pedagogy and commitment to social justice, students are prepared to be reflective teachers and leaders in their school and community.
We offer a Single Subject Teaching Preliminary Credential in 9 subjects: Art, Dance, English, Mathematics, Music, Physical Education, Science, Social Science, and World Language.
The Single Subject Credential consists of 34 units of in-person coursework. Students start in the summer term and typically take 1 year (Summer, Fall, Janterm, Spring) to complete the program.
Program Director
Jill Rathjen, M.Ed., jar2@stmarys-ca.edu
Student Learning Outcomes
- Design lessons and deliver instruction that is linguistically, culturally and developmentally appropriate to students.
- Learn and develop effective methods for cultivating a caring, supportive, nurturing, and rigorous classroom community (within our teacher education classrooms and at school sites).
- Use a variety of formative and summative assessments to meet the needs of different learners, including student self-assessment and self-reflection as partners in teaching and learning.
- Ensure that all students have full opportunities for academic success, without regard to ethnicity, race, gender, culture, social class, language or disability.
- Demonstrate professional practice growth in partnership with school sites, communities, families, and students.
- Demonstrate that you have met all of the Teacher Performance Expectations set by the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing.
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