UOTeach is a year of pre-service field experience in local schools with methods courses, mentor coaches, and classroom management training to support your success as an aspiring teacher.
The foundational, methods, and field experience courses in the UOTeach study plan have been approved by the State, University Graduate School and the College of Education. Courses are sequential, meaning that students are required to successfully complete courses prior to progressing to the next term of field experience.
- Full-Time Study Plan in UOTeach is between 15 and 16 credits per term. For economic reasons, most students complete program requirements in four-terms.
- Part-Time / Extended Study Plan in UOTeach generally divides the program into two years with the methods courses in the first year and field experience in the second year.
Note: Financial Aid considers fulltime enrollment to be 9+ credits/term, ¾ time is 7-8 credits/term, halftime is 5 -6 credits/term
2021-22 Elementary Multiple Subjects Study Plan
MEd Requirements: Total Credits 62 (UO Ed Foundations majors 52)
I. Summer Term Courses (15 credits, 8-weeks + 4 weeks)
Focus on cohort building, educational psychology, curriculum development theory, and serving diverse learning communities. Courses offered during the day Monday through Friday
1. EDST 612 Foundations of Teaching & Learning (3cr)*
2. SPED 511 Foundations of Disability (3cr)*
3. EDST 616 Language, Power, and Education (4cr)
4. EDST 620 Curricular Controversies: Math and Literacy (4cr)
Last Summer Session: Back to School Start of Field Placement (4-weeks)
Field observations: Begins when teachers go on contract and Includes 15 hours a week of classroom observation, with an evening course.
5. EDST 627 Mgmt: Intro/ Supp Learning Communities (1cr)
II. Fall Term Courses (16 credits, 11-weeks)
Includes 10 hours a week of active classroom observation, with a two 4-hour evening and two 4-hour Friday courses
1. EDST 640 Methods: Construct Mean Thr Literacy (4)
2. EDST 642 Methods: Pedagogical Humanities (4)
3. EDST 643 Methods: Teach Math: Facts & Inquiry (4)
4. EDST 614 Cultural Context of Education (4)*
or EDST 617 Sapsik’wala Indigenous Education Seminar [1] (total of 4 credits across the year)
III. Winter Term Courses (15 credits, 11-weeks)
Includes 20 hours a week of student teaching, with a two 4 hour evening and two 1 to 3 hour evening courses
1. EDST628 Mgmt: Creat Supp Clsrm Communities (3)
2. EDST 645 Method: Teach Science: Detail/Discovery (4)
3. EDST 646 Method ESOL: English Language Learner Pedagogy for Elementary Classrooms (4)
4. EDST 681 Elementary Parttime Teaching & Seminar (4)
IV. Spring Term Courses (16 credits, 11-weeks)**
Includes fulltime student teaching, with a two-hour seminar, and a bi-weekly 4-hour Friday courses
1. EDST 682 Elementary Teaching Performance Assessment (2)
2. EDST 683 Elementary Fulltime Student Teaching (10)
3. EDST 647 ELL Instructional Methods II: Applied (4)
* These courses are automatically waived for UO Educational Foundations graduates who took the equivalent pathway courses. Students with similar prior coursework must submit a COE course waiver petition (form) to get a course waived. Of those, non-degree master’s level work can be transferred using the Grad School (credit transfer form).
** Apply in GradWeb (http://gradweb.uoregon.edu/) for UO Grad Degree by second Friday of graduating term.
[1) Candidates in the Sapsik’ʷałá Indigenous Learning Community (SILC) participate in the EDST 617 Sapsik’wala Indigenous Education Seminar across the program year. Elementary candidates need to register for the following fall (2 cr], winter (1 cr), and spring (1cr) term, for a total of 4 credit hours. This course replaces the EDST 614 Cultural Context of Education requirement.
Completed Program of Study is 16 credits / 62 credits, max ≤5 year period, GPA ≥ 3.00
*Courses waived for UO Educational Foundations graduates