Undergraduate

UT Tyler School of Education

The School of Education has four undergraduate degree plans that will prepare you to serve students and their communities as a professional educator. You can select from one of the following programs. The links below provide additional information about each of your options.

• Bachelor of Science in Education - Early Childhood-Grad 6; Grades 4-8; Grades 7-12 
• All-Level (EC-12) Certification for the fields of art, music, and physical education, Spanish, Special Education (in conjunction with EC-6 Generalist)
• 7-12 Certification with Education Minor- To complete the 7-12 teaching certificate the undergraduate candidate must complete the Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of Arts degree that is appropriate for the designated teaching field.

If you are not sure which program is best for you, please send an email to SOEAdvising@uttyler.edu to schedule an appointment.

Marketable Skills

While completing our programs, the students will gain the following marketable skills:

• Holding high expectations for students and self
• Classroom management
• Ethical conduct toward students and professional colleagues
• Ethical conduct, practices, and performance
• Detection and education of students with dyslexia
• Instruction regarding mental health, substance abuse, and youth suicide
• Knowledge and implementation skills for Texas Knowledge and Skills and English Language Proficiency Standards
• Reading instruction
• Instructional planning and delivery
• Knowledge of students and student learning
• Content knowledge and expertise
• Creation of effective learning environments
• Use of technology to maintain data, communicate with students, parents, colleagues, and the community and allow students to present evidence of learning
• Sense making: the ability to determine the deeper meaning or significance of what is being expressed
• Social intelligence: the ability to connect to others in a deep and direct way, to sense and stimulate reactions and desired interactions
• Novel and adaptive thinking. Proficiency at thinking and coming up with solutions and responses beyond that which is rote or rule-based
• Cross-cultural competency: The ability to operate in different cultural settings
• Computational thinking: The ability to translate vast amounts of data into concepts and to understand data-based reasoning
• Transdisciplinary. Literacy in and ability to understand concepts across multiple disciplines
• Data-informed decision making
• Critical thinking
• Verbal and written communication
• Problem-solving
• Creative thinking
• Advocacy for others
• Collaboration with others