E-mail this pageAbout Childhood Education
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire!" - William Butler Yeats
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SUNY Plattsburgh's childhood education program is designed to inspire your learning so that you may one day inspire the learning of others. You will benefit from a program designed to develop competencies that are critical for tomorrow's teachers.
Program Themes
The program has nine themes that reoccur throughout the curriculum and build your ability to be an excellent educator. These include:
- Assessment - Effective teachers use assessment to guide their teaching.
- Collaboration - Effective teachers collaborate with all of those responsible for student development.
- Content in Context - Effective teachers know their content area and its disciplinary learning standards and adapt teaching strategies to match the needs of diverse learners.
- Critical Thinking and Problem Solving - Effective teachers develop their students' capabilities in critical thinking, problem solving, and decision making.
- Learning Environments - Effective teachers understand human behaviors and interactions and how those influence the learning environment.
- Modeling - Effective teachers exhibit professional commitment that is evident to their students.
- Multicultural Competency and Diversity - Effective teachers value the dignity, talents, and experiences of diverse students from many cultures and backgrounds.
- Recursive Learning - Effective teachers use developmentally appropriate and sequenced curriculum models supporting a coherent knowledge base that progressively builds upon itself.
- Technology - Effective teachers use technology appropriately to improve instruction and communication.
These themes are the focus of our program throughout the curriculum and are based on the needs of future teachers. You will learn and apply theories, principles, and concepts of childhood educators as you study and as you learn in elementary school classrooms. The science and art of teaching will become part of who you are as you work toward a profession where you will make a difference in the lives of children. Who you are as a person is also important to us and to the children you will teach. All of this comes together to produce graduates who are qualified, caring, and competent.
Questions, Comments, Suggestions?
Contact Information for Undergraduate Programs
If you would like to learn more about undergraduate programs in childhood education (B.S.Ed.) at SUNY Plattsburgh, please contact:
Denise Simard, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Teacher Education Unit
Program Area Coordinator, B.S.Ed. Undergraduate Programs
Office Location: Sibley Hall 202
Phone: (518) 564-5111
Fax: (518) 564-2149
E-mail: simardda@plattsburgh.edu
Jean Mockry , M.S.Ed., C.A.S.
Lecturer, Teacher Education Unit
Program Leader, Childhood Education
Office Location: Sibley Hall 418
Phone: (518) 564-5137
Fax: (518) 564-2149
E-mail: jean.mockry@plattsburgh.edu
Jessica Chase
Secretary
Phone: (518) 564-2125
E-mail: chaseja@plattsburgh.edu
Contact Information for Graduate Programs
If you would like to learn more about graduate programs in childhood education (M.S.T.) at SUNY Plattsburgh, please contact:
Robert Ackland, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Teacher Education Unit
Program Area Coordinator, M.S.T. Graduate Programs
Office Location: Sibley 314
Phone: (518) 564-5131
Fax: (518) 564-2149
E-mail: Robert.Ackland@plattsburgh.edu
Bethanne DelGaudio, M.A.
Director of Graduate Advising and Teacher Certification
Office Location: Sibley 302A
Phone: (518) 564-2124
Fax: (518) 564-2149
E-mail: bethanne.delgaudio@plattsburgh.edu
Donna Vanderhoff
Secretary
Phone: (518) 564-2123
E-mail: Donna.Vanderhoff@plattsburgh.edu