Rising enrollments and the current focus on the value of early childhood, childhood, and special education point to excellent job prospects for teachers.

The Childhood Education and Childhood Special Education Dual Certification Program prepares you for teaching positions in grade levels 1-6. Teaching positions are available in public and private schools, general education, and inclusive and segregated special education settings, including home-based, hospital, and residential settings.

The Early Childhood Education and Early Childhood Special Education Dual Certification Program prepares you to teach all young children, birth through grade 2, in a variety of settings that include center-based and home-based infant and toddler and early intervention programs, day care, Head Start, and private and public schools and preschools. To qualify for initial certification in New York, you will be required to take the New York State certification examinations. Please see your adviser for more detailed information.

Graduates of our programs also move on to related fields and graduate programs where the skills of teaching in childhood, early childhood, and special education are valuable assets. These include positions such as counselor, librarian, supervisor and administrator, school psychologist, curriculum specialist, and staff developer.

A sampling of positions graduates have obtained include:

• Head teacher or team-teacher
• Resource room teacher
• Consulting teacher
• Itinerant teacher
• Inclusion coordinator
• Head Start director
• Assistant teacher
• Social service agency caseworker
• Children's book editor
• Corporate employee trainer
• Fire Department curriculum developer
• Children's television producer