Elementary education

Hands-on experience before student teaching | During a practicum experience, Bailey used lessons taught in her Bluffton classes to better work with students with hearing and speech issues. Bailey's story >
REQUIRED COURSES:
There are 75 semester hours of required courses for the elementary education major, including field experience in a classroom in your first year.
With an additional 21 semester hours, you may add an endorsement for pre-kindergarten special needs.
The intervention specialist (K-12) major may be completed with the elementary education major in four years.
- Elementary education course requirements
- Pre-K special needs endorsement requirements
- Guideline to complete the elementary education major in four years, for students beginning fall 2019 and after.

Lifetime Service Award
When Judy (Mull) Pierman, a 1963 Bluffton graduate with an education degree, sees a need, she seeks to find a solution.