Education
Education
Students minoring in education study teaching pedagogy as well as teaching methods and strategies used in today’s classrooms, and they learn how to support diverse populations. They will complete over 100 hours of field experience in local classrooms. A partnership with Spartanburg school districts and Converse University offers students a pathway to obtaining teacher certification while also completing a master’s in teaching.
Meet Christie Johnson ’95
Christie Johnson, senior instructor and chair of education, has taught full time at Wofford since 2012. She has taught all education courses offered. She graduated from Wofford with a B.A. in English and a secondary teaching certification and graduated from Converse University with a master’s degree in elementary education and an educational specialist degree in curriculum and instruction. A longtime English teacher prior to Wofford, she has served on the Spartanburg District Six Board of Trustees since 2014 and is board chair.
Meet Margaret Chandler ’24
Margaret Chandler majored in sociology and anthropology and minored in education. She is pursuing her master’s in teaching at Converse University with a focus on elementary education. She’ll teach in Spartanburg upon receiving her master’s degree.
Wofford College and Converse University have entered an agreement allowing Wofford undergraduate students to transition into a Converse program of graduate study working toward initial teacher certification through the Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) degree.
The agreement creates a pathway for a “4 + 1” program of study, allowing students to receive a four-year baccalaureate degree from Wofford then to complete at least one additional year of graduate studies and any related requirements to satisfy requirements for both the MAT degree and
professional teacher certification, including student teaching. This program is available to Wofford students who have completed all or are within six hours of completing all requirements for the Wofford baccalaureate degree and who have completed a minimum of nine hours of the Wofford education minor curriculum.
To be accepted into the Converse Master of Arts in Teaching program, students must complete the following courses:
| EDC 200 | Foundations of Education |
| EDC 220 | Teaching Diverse Student Populations |
| EDC 310 | Foundations of Literacy |
| EDC 320 | Human Growth and Development |
| EDC 330 | Educational Psychology |
| EDC 340 | Teaching of Reading |
| EDC 430 | Interim. Education Seminar Field Experience |