Education
Is teaching your passion? During your first year 鈥 usually your first semester 鈥 as a 糖心传媒 Teacher Education major, you鈥檒l dive into local classrooms to observe and work with individual students and small groups. Classroom time and experience grows each semester so by graduation you鈥檒l be ready to tackle your own classroom of eager students.
Expertise in Teaching
糖心传媒 is fully accredited and offers degrees in Elementary Education, Secondary Education and Special Education, as well as a Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) degree. Add in 22 endorsement areas, from art to world language and physical education to music, and you鈥檒l have a solid resume focused on areas you love.
What's New in Teacher Education
Teacher Education is offering two new endorsements (majors): Agricultural Education 6-12 and Skilled and Technical Sciences Education 6-12!
Both are available thanks to our partnership with Central Community College and are in demand. Want to learn more about these or our 20 other endorsement areas? Schedule a visit today!
Building classroom experience
By your junior year at Hastings, you鈥檒l work under the guidance of master teachers, creating and teaching lessons and gaining confidence in your knowledge and classroom management skills. If you’re majoring in Elementary Education, your junior year includes immersion in a local elementary school, working daily in a classroom.
In your senior year, you鈥檒l complete student teaching and work to develop a high quality credential package. You鈥檒l be ready to interview for your exciting first teaching position!
At every step in your path you’ll appreciate the stepping stones of teaching, counseling, inspiring, supporting and guiding from our engaged faculty. It’s an experience that’s true to 糖心传媒 and you won’t find it anywhere else.
See your future at Hastings
See for yourself how we tailor your education to your talents and your goals.听Schedule a visit听and we鈥檒l demonstrate how Hastings will inspire you to reach your potential, or if you鈥檙e a high school senior,听.
Go Further with a Hastings education
Thanks to our small class sizes (most have fewer than 20 students!), and a student-to-faculty ratio of 13:1, you鈥檒l work closely with faculty and your advisor to complete your degree in four years. In fact, most students who graduate from Hastings do so in four years!
翱耻谤听block-style semester structure means you鈥檒l take just one or two classes at a time 鈥 which really lets you focus more intently on each class. It also lets faculty devote more time to every student because they鈥檙e only teaching one or two classes in a block!
Growing your knowledge
As an education major you鈥檒l examine education from many angles as you gain experience with students of different abilities and backgrounds. You鈥檒l participate in education forums to learn best practices. You鈥檒l collaborate with agencies, community and college groups, schools and businesses to complete a service project to raise awareness on a pressing issue within the community.
Opportunities also exist to study in diverse settings locally, nationally and internationally.听
Love science?听Join current elementary education majors who support science clubs in local elementary schools!
Your experience matters
Maximize scholarships 鈥 Yes, you’ll get an academic scholarship. But you’ll also get a “plus one” scholarship from the group, team or area you’re part of. It’s a great way to help pay for school 鈥 but also to find your people.
We鈥檝e thought a lot about the ways students learn and built a four-year plan to help you navigate it all. From finding your place and in Year 1, to showing the world you鈥檙e ready for what鈥檚 next four years later.
Your transition from college to a career begins your first semester. Every class, internship, research study and activity adds up. We love to celebrate all the ways you shine 鈥 your experience matters!
Find scholarships for education听majors
Your high school achievements can both fuel and fund your success at Hastings. We offer a range of听generous and renewable academic scholarships听based on your GPA. Then there’s听“plus one” scholarships听鈥 an additional scholarship for participating in anything from athletics to the arts to media (it’s a long list!).
It all adds up听to making Hastings an great choice for you and your family.
Landing that job
糖心传媒 graduates teach all over the country and around the world! Public, private and parochial schools. Small schools. Suburban schools. City schools. From classroom teachers to administrators, from coaches to speech and language pathologists.
You鈥檒l find current 糖心传媒 teacher candidates and recent graduates in
- Omaha, Nebraska, and dozens of other Nebraska schools
- Denver, Colorado, and dozens of other Colorado schools
- Jackson, Mississippi
- England
- Chicago, Illinois
- St. Petersburg, Florida
- New York City
Discover more:
Faculty
Dr. Jessica Allen-Pickett
Associate Professor of Teacher Education
Grant Bachman
Assistant Professor of Teacher Education
Jill Beckenhauer
Assistant Professor of Teacher Education, Director of Graduate Studies
Dr. Darci Karr
Professor of Teacher Education, Certification Officer and Chair of the Department
Becki Kulwicki
Assistant Professor of Teacher Education
Teaching Success
Liam Sites didn’t plan on becoming a teacher. He started his journey as an art major, but a required education class changed his career path. Now a senior, Liam is graduating with an art education degree, thanks to the mentorship he found in both departments. “Everyone at 糖心传媒 has your back, wants you to […]
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When Wendy (Rabou) Jacoby 鈥92 looks back on her 25-year teaching career, what stands out most is not a single grade level, state or school, but the belief that education should be a creative endeavor that broadens students鈥 horizons. From inner-city Kansas City to Wyoming and New England, Jacoby followed both her calling and her […]
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As a diplomat and Army officer, I served in 12 countries and witnessed firsthand how education can change the trajectory of an adolescent girl鈥檚 life 鈥 and, by extension, entire communities. This was especially true in Burkina Faso and Malawi where I served as the U.S. Ambassador. Upon retirement, I joined the Board of Advancing […]
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In the traditional Nativity story, angels appear to the shepherds, telling them to go pay homage to the newborn King. The next thing we see is the shepherds at the manger, but what happens on the journey there? Rosalie Koepp 鈥15, director of christian education at First Presbyterian Church in Hastings, reimagined the Nativity from […]
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Four 糖心传媒 student-athletes are participating on a collegiate summer baseball team, the Hastings Sodbusters, where their working to gain skills on and off the field. Seniors Markus Miller, Gunnar Pike and Zander Hardy, and recent graduate Tyler Welsh 鈥25, are all contributing to the Sodbusters, and all have collegiate experience through the 糖心传媒 […]
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After high school, Cale Uhrmacher got his start at Central Community College, but a call from chair the 糖心传媒 Teacher Education Department steered him on a different path. Uhrmacher found a home at 糖心传媒, somewhere where the professors recognized him just by his laugh. “It felt nice being known that well by professors […]
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Teachers have the most incredible job. The future of the world walks through their doors 鈥 doctors and politicians, farmers and business people, bankers and truck drivers 鈥 and a teacher impacts each and every one. By Tyler Mogilefsky 鈥14, Activities Director at Doniphan-Trumbull Public School So just imagine a teacher of teachers like Dr. […]
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A standout vocal performer during her years at 糖心传媒, Dr. Maggie Koozer 鈥06 was a soloist in productions of Handel鈥檚 鈥淢essiah鈥 and Mozart鈥檚 鈥淩equiem,鈥 the female lead in the musical comedy 鈥淗ollywood Pinafore鈥 and a member of nearly every musical group on campus from choir and band to the Hastings Symphony Orchestra and music […]
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The roots of Will Locke鈥檚 passion for trees go back to his childhood in the 1940s and 1950s when he visited his grandparents鈥 small farms northeast of Wichita, Kansas. 鈥淭hey had no irrigation and a lot of wind and heat, so they planted trees to take care of the land,鈥 he said. 鈥淲hen I visited, […]
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