Science Teacher Certification Program

Our program is the only science teacher certification graduate program in the country that is housed in an environmental studies department. Consequently, our graduate students want to infuse their general science and biology classes with ecology, environmental science, and natural history.

Be part of a new vision for science education.

The Science Teacher Certification Program values active classrooms where students and teachers work together to solve compelling classroom and community-based problems. They are playful, messy, and yet very rigorous places, where students design their own scientific inquiries in order to answer intriguing questions even their teachers cannot answer. Teachers act more like coaches, facilitators, provocateurs, and guides.

Learn by walking the talk.

The only way to fully understand and appreciate a new vision for science education is to experience it first-hand. This is why you’ll learn about problem solving and inquiry-based approaches to science teaching by playing with a solar panel and gas and bicycle generators to learn about entropy, create self-sustaining biospheres to support multiple generations of spiders, and create a pulley system that will lift a classmate.

Earn an MS in Environmental Studies and Science Teaching Certification.

Because you are earning an MS in Environmental Studies along with your science teaching certification, you can pursue both formal and non-formal education careers. You can be successful in either public school science classrooms or non-formal educational settings like science museums, nature centers, and environmental learning centers.

Program Delivery

• 50 credits
• Begin in Fall
• Classes 2 days a week + summer or fall practicum
• full-time student teaching during final semester
• 5 semesters to complete

For more information about the Science Teacher Certification program, please contact the Program Director Jimmy Karlan, EdD. For information about the admission process, please contact Laura Andrews, Co-Director of Admissions.