UT Tyler School of Education

Undergraduate

The School of Education has four undergraduate degree plans that will prepare you to serve students and their communities as a professional educator.

Marketable Skills

The students will have 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

 You can select from one of the following programs. The links below provide additional information about each of your options.

• Bachelor's degree in a specific content area – Grades 7-12 Certification
• All-Level (EC-12) Certification for the fields of art, health, music, and physical education, Spanish, Special Education (in conjunction with EC-6 Generalist)

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