Information:

Maine has a new requirement for teachers in public pre-K programs to hold an early childhood teaching endorsement.  The University of Maine is offering a 12-credit graduate certificate to support teachers with K-8 certifications earn the  081 endorsement.  The graduate certificate in Early Childhood Education includes the following courses (all offered online):

• Science for the Young Child
• Numeracy for the Young Child
• Infant and Toddler Development
• Early Childhood Special Education

In addition to these courses, teachers must take (or have taken as part of their K-8 certification):

• Children’s literature
• Language and literacy in early childhood
• Child development or developmental psychology
• 6 additional credits in early childhood education including: family studies, creative arts, observation of young children, assessment of young children, advanced child development
• Early learning environments
• Additional early literacy coursework
• Praxis 2 (test # 0021) must be passed with a score of 166 or better

To learn more about this graduate certificate and discuss options for articulating the credits into graduate degrees, please contact the College of Education.

Note: If courses offered at the beginning of the rotation will not be offered again (i.e. repeated) within the 5-semester time frame, please indicate that fact.

Course titles:

HUD 529:       Numeracy for the Young Child.  3 cr.

CHF 450:        Early Childhood Special Education-Inclusion in the Early Childhood Classroom.  3 cr.

HUD 521:       Science as Inquiry: Teaching Young Children.  3 cr.

SEI 501:         Diversity of Development in Infancy and Early Childhood.  3 cr.

Contact:

Mary Ellin Logue, College of Education
207-581-3119
mary.logue@umit.maine.edu

Julie DellaMattera, College of Education
207-581-3119
julie.dellamattera@umit.maine.edu