What You’ll Learn
Our core curriculum will introduce you to fundamental knowledge in central sub-fields like physics, chemistry, environmental science, and geology.
For the Secondary Science Education Concentration, you must also double-major in Secondary Education through the Education Department. In addition to the Natural Science core curriculum, you will choose to focus on one of three science content areas: life science, physical science, or earth science.
Through your teacher education courses, you’ll acquire many hours of student teaching and classroom observation. You’ll also gain a firm grasp of best practices for teaching diverse learners in today’s school environment, including ways to promote inclusivity and inventive thinking.
Outside the Classroom, In the Community
No matter what your specialty area of interest is, you’ll have numerous internship, student teaching, and research opportunities. You’ll take multiple field trips and spend significant time working in the outdoors as well as in high school classrooms. You can also participate in several active student clubs. You’ll have the chance, too, to enroll in travel courses that will take you to places like Iceland, the Mojave Desert, and the Virgin Islands.
Special Facilities
All of our campuses house dedicated lab and research space.
- Castleton is home to labs for exercise science, petrology and tectonics, and computational chemistry, just to name a few. Castleton also boasts a greenhouse.
- At Johnson you’ll find another greenhouse, an artificial stream laboratory, a cellular and molecular laboratory, and extensive herbarium and vertebrate museum collections.
- Lyndon is home to several facilities dedicated to atmospheric sciences, including an observation deck and the Donald and Carmella Dalton Weather Center.
Certifications
Graduating from this program earns you a recommendation for a Level I Professional Educator’s License with an endorsement in Science, issued by the Vermont Agency of Education. This license is required to work as a public-school teacher in Vermont. It also is recognized and accepted by all other states who have signed the NASDTEC Interstate Agreement.
