Elementary Education

Study Education at Cornell Teacher Education Program

As an elementary education major, you’ll soon value the benefits of learning on the block plan. You focus on one course for 18 days, every day, Monday through Friday. Classes are small, interactive, and challenging. You get to know your professors and they get to know you. You get familiar with (and learn to appreciate) the diverse perspectives of your classmates who come from all over the U.S. and internationally to experience college One Course At A Time.

Your journey from student to elementary teacher

• Start by taking EDU 215 Educational Psychology and two additional 200-level education courses in your first two years.
• Declare your elementary major your sophomore year.
• Apply to the Teacher Education Program (TEP) after EDU 215 and two 200-level courses are completed.
• You’ll continue to complete coursework, working toward your endorsements and/or your certification. By the time you are student teaching in your senior year, you’ll be classroom comfortable, because previous practicums will have prepared you.

Successful TEP graduates should apply for their Iowa teaching license upon graduation. Iowa licensure provides graduates with reciprocity in most states and territories in the U.S.*

*Specific state by state reciprocity is shared with TEP students at time of admission to the program.