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COE offers early childhood education bachelor's program at Alpharetta campus
 The College of Education's bachelor's degree program in early childhood education gives students the skills they need to teach pre-kindergarten through fifth grade students.
Now, the COE has expanded its program to Georgia State University's Alpharetta campus, giving more students the chance to hone their teaching skills and earn their degrees close to home.
"The mission of the Department of Early Childhood Education is to provide authentic teaching opportunities for teacher candidates with diverse, school field-based components in all of its programs, including this new offering in Alpharetta," said Carla Tanguay, coordinator of undergraduate programs in early childhood education. "We believe that all children can learn and faculty aim to develop insightful and effective educational professionals who are focused on student learning and development."
The department has been working for more than a year to offer this degree program at the Alpharetta campus with the hope of expanding its reach outside of the university's main campus in downtown Atlanta.
"With this degree program offering at Alpharetta, we can be accessible to more students and meet the state goal of producing more high quality, highly effective teachers," Tanguay said.
To continue reading about the program at Alpharetta, click here. Photo caption: The 45,000-square-foot facility in Alpharetta, which officially began offering classes in fall 2010, has a number of state-of-the-art classrooms, places to study and free parking.
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Upcoming Events in the College of Education
 Beginning Principals Academy
June 22-23, 2011
College of Education
30 Pryor Street
Atlanta, GA 30303
The Beginning Principals Academy is a year-long series of workshops to help new principals build their capacity to enhance student learning and create success for their schools and themselves. The academy is open to all beginning principals. Sessions will combine face-to-face workshops and online training. In addition, participants will receive one-on-one coaching and feedback from workshop leaders.
Topics at these sessions include getting ready for students, teachers, parents and the community, curriculum development, problem solving/decision making, effective communication, teacher evaluation and supervision, managing change, conflict and culture, best practices and more.
The academy is sponsored by the College of Education's Principals Center, which is a collaborative effort among Georgia State University, local school districts and other agencies to provide cutting edge professional development for school leaders. The center offers training and support to help school leaders be successful change agents able to build strong learning communities.
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Why I give to the COE...
Diane Ray
Director of Teacher and Principal Leader Development,
Professional Association of Georgia Educators
(M.Ed. '89)
"While earning my master's degree from the College of Education in educational leadership and supervision, I learned many valuable tools that carried over in my career. However, the most valuable lesson I learned was to continue to learn and grow through quality professional learning initiatives if I was to make a difference in the success of students. Today, I am happy to assist educators all over Georgia in attaining quality professional learning through the Professional Association of Georgia Educators (PAGE)."
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To make your contribution online, please click here.
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