Overview | Elementary Teacher Education

Where can you instill in young minds a love for learning, for life, and for truth? Consider majoring in Elementary Education at Maranatha, where you not only learn to teach the three Rs, but you also model integrity, practice fairness, recognize each child’s strengths, and reward good effort.

Whether your future classroom is in a Christian school, in a public school, at home, or on a mission field, this program equips you to fulfill your calling as an effective teacher, committed to excellence.

Program Outcomes

• Students will demonstrate the ability to identify a variety of differences among elementary-aged children and individualize instruction accordingly.
• Students will demonstrate the ability to effectively plan for instruction, incorporating a wide variety of strategies for instruction and classroom management.
• Students will demonstrate thorough knowledge and application to the teaching of their content in language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies.
• Students will demonstrate the ability to conduct and interpret a wide variety of assessments.
• Students will demonstrate professionalism in education.
• Students will demonstrate the ability to teach content according to a biblical worldview.