The School of Arts and Education
The King’s College School of Arts and Education is a distinctive undergraduate program designed to prepare teachers and educational leaders for careers in both government operated and independent school settings. The King’s College program is committed to content driven teacher training within the context of the Christian tradition.

The program provides instruction in philosophy, pedagogy, classroom management, assessment, and educational leadership within the context of a larger literature including great texts and significant primary sources that have helped to shape and define our civilization. In addition to immersion in this general survey of knowledge, each student must demonstrate special competency in an area of concentration.

By requiring both a liberal education in the humanities and a concentration in a specific area of human inquiry in addition to the essential pedagogical training common to better schools of education, we insure that graduates of the program are not only able to teach—they are able to teach something.

The Education faculty uniformly expects that those who would teach others be able to read with comprehension, write with clarity and speak with plainness and power. Through small classes, frequent tutorials and a strong program of student advisement, students are helped to meet those expectations.

Departmental graduation requirements include two semesters of practicum, and the maintenance of a cumulative grade point average of not less than 2.7 for the classes specific to the major beginning with the Junior year. Students who fail to maintain a 2.7 cumulative grade point average may be dropped from the program.

Program Objectives

1. To provide a broad knowledge of the field of Education including curriculum planning and development, administration and supervision, guidance and counseling, and educational leadership

2. To help students understand the history of American education and its relationship to other fields of academic study

3. To equip students to understand the various elements involved in the teaching of children including motivation, methods, classroom grouping, classroom management, discipline, individualized instruction, evaluation and counseling

4. To develop competence in teaching skill subjects (reading, writing, public elocution, language, computers, mathematics) and unit study subjects (science, history & civic responsibility, health and safety)

5. To cultivate the students ability to develop a child’s natural capacity for moral reasoning

6. To develop the ability as professionals to communicate effectively with parents, with school personnel and with others concerned with educational matters

7. To assist students in their understanding of teaching as a vocation and to guide them into the type of government operated or independent school that best answers their own sense of calling

8. To provide the foundation necessary for graduate work in the professional areas of interest

9. To convey to each teacher both the content and the methodologies particular to a Classical and Christian education

10. To encourage the professional habits of the lifelong learner, reinforce the importance of personal integrity, and instill in each graduate the necessity of matching precept with example.

Bachelor of Science in Childhood Education
The Bachelor of Science in Childhood Education offers courses and programs that enable students to meet the challenges of teaching in both government supported and independent schools. The King’s College program provides intentional preparation for teachers who are called to serve in under performing schools and districts—especially in the urban areas. It ensures that every graduating student understands technology and its application as a means of enhancing classroom effectiveness. Every graduating student will have knowledge and competency to teach a content area. Every graduating student is grounded in pedagogy.

Courses Requiring Field Experience