Early Childhood & Childhood Education Programs

From special needs assessment, diagnosis and testing to teaching strategies for all learners in diverse, inclusive classrooms, at Molloy’s childhood/special education program, you will gain the skills and experience you need to help students of varying abilities realize their full potential.

At Molloy, you’ll benefit from:

• Your choice of in-demand content specialties. Choose to earn your childhood/special education degree with a concentration in biology, English, history, mathematics or LOTE (Spanish).
• Personalized attention from an accomplished faculty that really understands this profession. You’ll learn in small classes and receive one-on-one advisement from faculty with real hands-on experience as teachers and administrators.
• A leading-edge curriculum. Develop cutting-edge strategies for teaching students in diverse, inclusive classrooms with our value-centered, multidimensional curriculum.
• A variety of field experiences. Discover where your true passion lies as a student teacher in several different learning environments.

Earn your master’s faster.

Molloy offers an accelerated dual degree program in education. After only five years of study, you can earn a BS or BA degree as well as an MS degree and dual certification in either childhood education and special education or adolescence education, biology, English, mathematics, social studies or Spanish and special education.

Share your passion for music with the next generation: Earn a bachelor’s degree in Molloy’s music arts education program, which is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM).

At Molloy, you’ll benefit from:

• Personalized attention from an accomplished faculty that really understands this profession. You’ll learn in small classes and receive one-on-one advisement from faculty with real hands-on experience as teachers and administrators.
• A dynamic, engaging curriculum that offers classical training on your primary instrument or voice as well as the core skills to help you connect with all students, both inside and outside the pre-K to grade 12 public school setting.
• Applying an extensive functional skillset to the classroom setting, including proficiency in voice, keyboard, wind, brass, string and percussion instruments; conducting, arranging, solo and ensemble performance.
• Diverse hands-on experience. You’ll design developmentally and culturally appropriate lessons and programming, while also student teaching in one elementary, middle- and high school setting.

Share your passion with the next generation: Earn a bachelor’s degree in visual arts education from Molloy. This teacher certification program prepares you for a successful career teaching art in pre-k through grade 12 schools.

At Molloy, you’ll benefit from:

• Personalized attention from an accomplished faculty that really understands this profession. You’ll learn in small classes and receive one-on-one advisement from faculty with real hands-on experience as teachers and administrators.
• A rigorous career-focused curriculum that combines education courses based on theories and studio practice to promote the creative art process, critical thinking and reflective practice.
• Diverse hands-on experience. Develop curriculum and lesson plans for diverse learners, perform successful teaching demonstrations in class and have supervised field experiences in pre-k to grade 12 schools.
• A professional portfolio that can assist you in your job search.

Want to enhance the potential of your teaching career? Consider a dual certification in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages), or a bilingual extension that may increase your employment opportunities upon graduation. (This program is open to teachers with an initial certification.)

At Molloy, you’ll benefit from:

• A leading-edge curriculum that focuses on theoretical issues and emphasizes research-based, authentic classroom practices.
• Working with our acclaimed TESOL faculty featuring highly skilled classroom practitioners, nationally known researchers and best-selling authors.

Childhood Educational Technology

Effective online teaching can help you create learning opportunities that are engaging, meaningful, and equitable. This dual degree program at Molloy University prepares you to become an effective childhood teacher for grades 1-6 and an educational technology specialist for grades pre-K through 12.

At Molloy, you’ll benefit from:

• Experience integrating educational technology to design and develop effective instruction. You’ll use such advanced integration models as universal design for learning (UDL), technology pedagogy and content knowledge (TPACK), and substitution augmentation modification and redefinition (SAMR).
• A curriculum that aligns with today’s educational technology standards, including the national educational technology plan, the international society in technology education (ISTE) standards, computer science and digital fluency standards, professional development standards, and next-generation standards.
• A program that provides you with the opportunity to be New York State certified as an educational technology specialist. It can enhance your content area teaching as well as allow you to teach digital literacy technology curriculum to K-12 students and provide professional development support to educators.
• A wealth of career opportunities. As a New York State educational technology specialist, you may become a teacher of educational technology or a coordinator or administrator for educational technology at the district level; a STEM teacher or coordinator; a curriculum designer or developer, an online or hybrid teacher for grades pre-K to 12, or a technology facilitator or coordinator.

Earn your master’s faster.
This is an accelerated dual degree program in education. After only five years of study, you can earn a BS or BA degree as well as an MS degree and dual certification in childhood education and educational technology.