Adolescent Education at Keuka College

The education department offers an exciting and forward-looking unified education program to prepare future educators to teach an increasingly diverse school population. The mission of the Keuka College Education program, in keeping with the College’s mission, is to provide our students with a strong liberal-arts based professional preparation program, which integrates experiential learning in an intellectually challenging and supportive learning environment. We seek to prepare professional educators who can meet the needs of diverse learners and who are committed to a lifetime of reflective practice, collaborative service and ethical leadership. The adolescent program (grades 7-12) leads to secondary certification in biology, English, mathematics or social studies. Those who wish certification in adolescent special education will take 9 additional hours of coursework for that certification.

The hallmark of a Keuka education is the yearly, 140-hour, off-campus learning experience that is done by our students. This program allows out students to take the concepts that they are learning in the classroom and apply them in real educational settings.

Students are required to do, in addition to their student teaching experience, a minimum of two educational Field Periods, one in a regular educational setting and one in a special education setting.