Elementary Education

Elementary Education
Offered as a major (B.S.) with licensure (K-6)

Start early and practice often is our motto. Our Elementary Education majors start as early as sophomore year and spend more than 550 hours in the classroom. By studying elementary education at Saint Anselm, you’ll be prepared to excel in teaching across a variety of grades and settings.

Your time in the classroom and comprehensive education provides you with the confidence, theory, and practice to succeed in any school room right after graduation. Courses prepare students with the ethical, moral, political, and social realities that shape education. This area of study will prepare you for graduate studies and careers in and beyond the classroom.

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I found that the [student teaching] experience was extremely beneficial and has helped my classroom teaching. I made lessons on my own, managed the classroom, planned activities throughout the day, and worked with other teachers on the third-grade team.

— Kolby Sirowich ’24, Elementary Education major

Featured Course

Integrating Art and Creativity into Teaching

In this course, you’ll learn how to support students as they develop the technical vocabulary and skills needed to read and critique various pieces of visual arts, poetry, music, and drama. You’ll study how to incorporate the arts into the elementary curriculum while gaining practical knowledge. You’ll also learn how to enable students to articulate what they know and what they do not know about a particular subject through artistic expression.

Teach English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL)

Understanding how to teach learners whose native tongue isn’t English is a strength, and it can be incredibly fulfilling to help them confidently learn the language. Specifically designed to pair with the Elementary Education major, earning an ESOL minor will help you gain further skills and experience in language learning environments.

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Clinical Capstone – Supervised Student Teaching

As an Elementary Education major, you’ll gain full-time clinical teaching experience at a local elementary school. You’ll be gradually introduced to the profession through observation, collaboration, participation, and teaching parts of a class. This opportunity will boost your confidence in classroom leadership heading into your career.

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Licensure Ready

During the clinical capstone experience, all majors in the Education Department will complete the New Hampshire Teacher Candidate of Performance (NH-TCAP). If you plan to teach in another state, you’ll receive guidance from faculty to ensure you have everything you need to obtain a teaching license.

New Hampshire has reciprocity agreements with approximately 40 states, which is a formal understanding that recognizes certifications obtained in other locations. This extends licensure eligibility to the New Hampshire’s Department of Education so you can obtain licensing requirements and guidelines in the state.

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Topics You'll Study

Throughout your coursework, you’ll explore the role of education to better understand how to productively guide, assist, and educate young children in the classroom. You’ll study a variety of topics, including:

How to support students’ technical and artistic development
Reading and writing acquisition through research-based theoretical models
Teaching culturally, linguistically, and ability-diverse learners
The historic, economic, and social foundations of American education

Opportunities to Build Essential Skills

As a Saint Anselm student, you’ll find several opportunities available to support your postgraduate goals including our Master of Education (M.Ed.) with licensure in Special Education (ages 5-21).

The College also offers a tuition-free fellowship program to earn your master’s degree in a year. Specialized programs like this can take your career to the next level.

Special Education (M.Ed.)

Teacher Education Program (TEP) Conceptual Framework

Saint Anselm College is committed to giving students an educational experience that is based in rigorous thinking, just actions, promotes the common good, and fosters the love of learning. The framework and goal of the TEP at Saint Anselm is directly aligned with that mission.

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Recent Outcomes

Recent Career Outcomes

Benjamin Franklin Classical Charter Public School
Buckingham Browne & Nichols School
Hanover Public Schools
Hebron Elementary School
Holliston Public Schools
James Mastricola Elementary School
Lynn Public Schools
Lynnfield Public Schools
Manchester School District
Marblehead Public Schools
Nativity Preparatory School of Boston
Newmarket Elementary School
Reading Public Schools
Sanborn Elementary School
Shrewsbury Public Schools
South Shore Educational Collaborative
Stoughton Area School District
Suffield Public Schools
Tower Day School
Waltham Public Schools
Wilkins Elementary School
Wilmington Public Schools

Recent Graduate Schools

Boston College
Christian Brothers University
Merrimack College
Providence College
Saint Anselm College
Stonehill College
University of Notre Dame

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Related Majors and Minors

Special Education (M.Ed.)

Secondary Education

English to Speakers of Other Languages

STEM in Education

ALUMNI PROFILE: EMILY SHERLOCK ‘24

Elementary Education major Emily Sherlock ’24 minored in English to speakers of other languages (ESOL) to expand her abilities and work with children whose native langue isn’t English. After graduation, Sherlock took her skills to Merrimack College where she earned a master’s degree in moderate disabilities. She currently teaches in Malden Public Schools where she uses Anselmian values to enhance her learners’ classroom experience.

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