Adolescent (Secondary) Education
(Grades 7-12)

Saint Rose secondary education majors gain the knowledge and skills necessary to become reflective, self-empowered advocates for the students they will teach and the schools and communities they will serve. At the heart of our program is leadership—we encourage our future teachers to create new initiatives and become responsible agents of change, making the Saint Rose program in secondary education one of distinction.

THE SAINT ROSE DIFFERENCE
The College of Saint Rose is renowned in the field of education for producing teachers who are well trained and highly qualified. In the past three years, 98% of our education graduates passed the required New York State Teacher Certification Exam. Our high passage rate ranks Saint Rose as one of the top teacher education programs in New York state, along with Teachers College of Columbia University, New York University and Syracuse University.

After being trained at Saint Rose in secondary education and either art, biology, chemistry, English, social studies, math, music or Spanish, you will be well prepared for teaching in your own middle or high school classroom and reaching our
nation’s children through your creativity, knowledge of teaching methods and values-based education. The School of Education faculty actively collaborates with faculty in the various content-area disciplines to provide extensive advisement for students throughout the program.

With a foundation in both traditional education theories as well as more contemporary critical theories, including social and cultural studies, the secondary education program at The College of Saint Rose is one of few in the United States that
combines the study of critical education theory with hands-on experience.

As a secondary education major at The College of Saint Rose, you will:

• gain significant skills and insight into the contemporary classroom through the integration of coursework with 100 hours of extensive field experiences;
• have diverse teaching experiences in urban, suburban, and rural school districts, as well as in after-school programs and high-needs districts; and
• understand the importance of building effective relationships with professionals, students, parents and the community.

OUR MENTORING FACULTY
The Saint Rose secondary education faculty members are practitioners and informed scholars who bring to the classroom their valuable experience gained as middle and high school teachers, program directors, and high school principals. They’ve been there, at the front of the class looking out at a sea of young faces, each child at a different learning level.

Saint Rose faculty members regularly publish and present at regional, state, national, and international conferences, exposing their students to research and scholarship, as well as opportunities for professional development after graduation.

Student Education Association
You will be nurtured through faculty coordinated organizations such as the Student Education Association, which sponsors events in the interest of children.

Kappa Delta Pi
The School of Education holds a charter in Kappa Delta Pi, the international honor society for educators—a prestigious organization to which many Saint Rose education professors belong. Students who are in the top 15-20 percent of their degree program and who are recommended by faculty are invited to membership in Kappa Delta Pi.

Your field experiences are supervised by experienced teachers who will share with you their own firsthand knowledge of teaching. Your final field experience will be a full semester of student teaching in a middle or high school classroom at either an urban, suburban or rural school or an alternative school program.

• Curriculum Library—includes educational materials for children, examples of textbooks used in elementary schools, teacher resources for planning and teaching, and curriculum guides from the New York State Education Department and various school districts;
• Test Library and Children’s Book Collection—students can utilize these resources for their planning and instruction in field experiences and while student teaching;
• Education Microcomputer Laboratory—20 microcomputer stations and a library of educational software to help students acquire technology skills that will enhance their teaching and employment prospects; and
• Neil Hellman Library—contains over 200,987 volumes, 945 periodical subscriptions and a collection of 265,734 microfilms. Membership in the Capital District Library Council and OCLC network provide access to materials from libraries nationwide through interlibrary loan. The library’s public workstations provide access to the online catalog, CD-ROM databases and the World Wide Web.

Grades 5-6 Extension
Saint Rose offers all secondary education majors the unique opportunity to extend their teaching certification to grades 5-6 in their concentration area. The coursework for the concentration provides most of the required coursework to obtain the grades 5-6 extension. Extensions are available for English, languages other than English, math, social studies, biology, chemistry, earth science and physics.

While some of our students pursue graduate study at other institutions, including the University at Albany and Columbia University, many Saint Rose education graduates choose to pursue their master’s degrees at their alma mater with the faculty members who have guided them from their first year as education majors to their careers as teachers with their own classrooms.

I came to The College of Saint Rose because it is the neighborhood college of Albany and there is a unique and personal opportunity to effectively prepare the next generation of teachers for the complexities and realities of teaching. We are passionate and rigorous in our work and we enjoy what we do.

Willard Washburn,
associate professor of education
and former principal of Albany High School

The Thelma P. Lally School of Education
The United States Department of Education predicts that our nation will be in need of more than one million teachers by 2010, due to the retirement of more than half of the current teacher work force. To accommodate the growing need for highly trained teachers across the country, The College of Saint Rose built the new Thelma P. Lally School of Education, completed in January 2003.

The Lally School o Education consists of classrooms, computer labs, offices, an education and curriculum library, and a communication disorders clinic. It also features the Carl E. Touhey Forum, a multimedia education forum that provides a focused and unique space for the campus as a whole. The Lally School of Education is a learning and teaching environment in which technology plays a critical role.