Elementary Teacher Education
Associate of Arts for Transfer
Program Details
The Associate in Arts in Elementary Teacher Education for Transfer degree is designed to provide students a seamless pathway for transfer to a California State University with a major in Liberal Studies. The student will meet introductory content area subject matter requirements for teaching at the elementary school level. Through a broad liberal studies curriculum, students are introduced to elementary school teaching, examine child growth and development, and select courses in the arts and humanities, social and behavioral sciences, natural sciences, literature and communication.
Elementary Teacher Education Pathways
Pathways listed below are for the catalog year 2025-2026. Maps for previous years are available on each pathway page. What is a catalog year?
Learning Outcomes
Learning outcomes help you work towards your educational goals.
- Demonstrate best practices in the development and implementation of lesson plans and assessments, which are built on state standards.
- Demonstrate the ability to integrate and utilize knowledge from multiple disciplines.
- Develop a professional teaching portfolio to include papers on classroom management, classroom environment, and classroom procedures based on observations and one-on-one tutoring completed in local elementary classrooms.
- Understand and respond to the diversity of the children they will serve