Spanish

Grades 7-12 with 5-6 extension

Contact Person:
Elvira Sanatullova-Allison, Program Coordinator
206 Satterlee, (315) 267-2025 (sanatue@potsdam.edu)

 

Education Program:
All education courses must be completed with a 2.0 or higher with a 2.75 GPA in the education major.

The Secondary Spanish Education program requires completion of a Spanish Language and Literature major. The Spanish major must be completed with a 2.5 GPA.  Contact the chair of the Department of Modern Languages to declare the major, be assigned a Spanish adviser and select appropriate courses.

 

Education Major
Credits
EDLS 315 Teaching Students with Special Needs: Grades 5-12
3
@SECD 210 Computer Applications in Middle/Junior and Secondary Education
1
@SECD 356 Reading in the Middle/Junior and Secondary Schools
3
@SECD 357 Reading/Literacy in the Middle/Junior and Secondary Schools II
(prerequisite: SECD 356)		3
 
The following two courses must be taken concurrently:
@SECD 374 Introduction to First and Second Language Acquisition
3
@SECD 394 Observation in the Foreign Language Classroom: Grades 5-12
1
 
The following two courses must be taken concurrently:
@SECD 474 Foreign Language Instruction, Curriculum, and Assessment: Grades 5-12
3
@SECD 494 Practicum in the Foreign Language Classroom, Grades, 5-12
1

 Student Teaching Semester:

The following courses must be taken concurrently:
EDLS 421 Seminar in Middle/Junior and Secondary Education
 2
@SECD 455 Student Teaching in the Middle/Junior High School (SI)
6
@SECD 456 Student Teaching in the Senior High School (SI)
6
  

Cognate Requirements:
Credits
All cognate courses must be completed with a 2.0 or higher.
  
HLTH 230 School Health
 2
PSYC 321 Psychology of Adolescence (SA)
3
PSYC 350 Educational Psychology
3
SPAN 303 Historia Cultural de Espana (CC)
3
SPAN 304 Panorama Cultural de Latinoamerica (CC)
3
Arts and Sciences Elective (selected with the approval of the education adviser
3
 
Select one of the following:3-4
COMM 106 Basic Principles of Speech
 
COMM 311 Small Group Communication
 
COMM 324 Persuasive Speaking
 
  
Select one of the following: 
ARTH Elective
3
MUAM Music course regarding a Spanish-speaking region of the world (with adviser approval)
3

Certification Requirements:

  1. New York State Teacher Certification Exams required for Initial certification: LAST, ATS-W and CST (multi-subject) 
  2. Fingerprinting Clearance