Secondary Licensure in Biology
Secondary Licensure in Biology
Student Learning Outcomes
Graduates with a Secondary Licensure in Biology will:
- Complete and meet the student learning outcomes as listed for the B.A. in Biology.
- Understand how students learn and develop science and engineering concepts and practices. They incorporate disciplinary core ideas, scientific and engineering practices, and crosscutting concepts into instruction.
- Work with students and others to create and manage environments that support learning.
- Demonstrate and implement safety procedures, material safety practices, and the ethical treatment and use of living organisms (appropriate to their area of licensure).
- Provide evidence that students’ understanding of disciplinary core ideas, science and engineering practices, and crosscutting concepts have increased in sophistication as a result of instruction.
Candidates provide evidence representative of the entire population they teach.- Engage in professional development opportunities to continually improve their knowledge and understanding of science content and pedagogy. They conduct themselves as part of the science education community.
- Demonstrate an understanding of concepts and practices of engineering, technology, and the application of science that can be used in developing instruction for students.
- Demonstrate an understanding of how organisms live and grow.
- Demonstrate an understanding of how and why organisms interact with their environment, and what are the effects of these interactions.
- Demonstrate an understanding of how characteristics of one generation pass to the next and how individuals of the same species and even siblings have different characteristics.
- Demonstrate an understanding of evolution and evidence shows that different species are related.
Requirements*
- BIOL111 Biology 1 (4 hours)
- BIOL112 Biology 2 (4 hours)
- BIOL216 Cell Biology (4 hours)
- BIOL230 Genetics and Evolution (4 hours)
- BIOL241 Human Anatomy and Physiology 1 (4 hours)
- BIOL242 Human Anatomy and Physiology 2 (5 hours)
- BIOL322 Animal Behavior (5 hours)
- BIOL336 Ecology (5 hours)
- BIOL461 Seminar in Biology (1 hour)
- CHEM111 General Chemistry 1 (4 hours)
- NSCI280 History of Science (3 hours)
Teacher Education Licensure Requirements
- EDUC150 Introduction to Education (2 hours)
- EDUC215 Foundations of Education (3 hours)
- EDUC216 Diversity Field Experience (1 hour)
- EDUC220 Educational Technology (3 hours)
- EDUC238S Teaching Science in the Secondary Schools (3 hours)
- EDUC322 Educational Psychology (4 hours)**
- EDUC323 Introduction to Exceptionalities (4 hours)**
- EDUC343 Home, School, and Community (3 hours)
- EDUC344 Content Area Literacy (3 hours)
- EDUC352 Principles of Effective Secondary Instruction (3 hours)
- EDUC439 Secondary School Methods and Management (4 hours)**
- EDUC440 Student Teaching Seminar (1 hours)**
- EDUC449 Observation and Supervised Teaching in the Secondary School (4-12 hours)**
**Taken after formal admittance to the Teacher Education Program.
Cognate requirement
- MATH110 College Algebra (3 hours)
- PSYC112 General Psychology (3 hours)
- PSYC218 Child Psychology (3 hours) or PSYC252 Developmental Psychology (3 hours)
