The Business, Computer, and Information Technology Teacher Education major prepares you for a rewarding job teaching business and office education subjects to elementary, middle school, and high school students. The program is designed to help you acquire competencies in liberal arts, business foundations, and professional studies.
This comprehensive certificate (K-12) prepares you to teach office technology, programming, accounting, entrepreneurship, business law, general business, software applications, business communications, keyboarding, marketing and management.
Our education faculty members are specialists in their areas of expertise, and all have related work experience as practitioners in the field, such as principals, superintendents, and teachers.
Practical applications of teaching competencies are made during the professional semester—a full-time block of studies that includes micro-teaching, methods of developing and achieving performance objectives, and supervised student teaching in an approved school.
Upon completing the studies and field experiences of the program, you will be able to demonstrate:
Job opportunities for teachers over the next 10 years should be excellent, due mostly to the large number of teachers expected to retire. There are currently 6.3 million teaching positions in the United States, and employment opportunities are expected to increase. In addition, over one million teachers will retire in the next five years, leaving our nation with a potential shortage of over two million teachers.
Teaching is a highly respected profession which provides a regular daily and weekly work schedule, time off each year, excellent benefits, job security and opportunities to continue your education.
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2010 national mean bachelor-level, entry-level salaries: (information from the National Association of Colleges and Employers) |
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Elementary |
$30,513 |
Special Education |
$32,898 |
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Pre-Elementary |
$27,336 |
Specific Academic/Vocational |
$34,260 |
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Secondary |
$37,703 |
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2009 RMU Salary Survey: |
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Elementary Education |
Mean: $31,250 |
Range: $24,000 - $38,500 (based on three or fewer responses) |
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Business Education (M.S.) |
Mean: $40,539 |
Range: $30,000 - $55,000 |
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Below is a typical four-year course of study for business teacher certification, including major requirements and electives. Your own schedule will vary based on your own interests.
| FRESHMAN/Fall Semester | FRESHMAN/Spring Semester |
| Reading & Writing Strategies | Argument and Research |
| Survey of Economics | Principles of Psychology |
| Humanities: Art and Music | Legal Environment of Business |
| Science elective | Fundamentals of Info. Systems |
| U.S. History I | Reasoning/Applications |
| SOPHOMORE/Fall Semester | SOPHOMORE/Spring Semester |
| Public Speaking and Persuasion | Professional Communications |
| Office Info. Sys. Applications | Reading Lit: Coming of Age |
| Schools and Society | Desktop Publishing |
| Statistics | Managment Theory & Practice |
| Educational Psychology | Prinicples of Finance |
| Principles of Sociology | Instructional Design/Assessment |
| JUNIOR/Fall Semester | JUNIOR/Spring Semester |
| Web develop & E-Comm Tech | Intro to Multimedia |
| Child Psychology | Visual Basic Programming |
| Principles of Marketing | Managerial Accounting |
| Intro. Financial Acct. | Technology For Secondary Educators |
| Teaching Students w/ Special Needs | Teaching in Inclusive Sec. Classrooms |
| SENIOR/Fall Semester | SENIOR/Spring Semester |
| Reading Content/ELL | Professional Semester |
| Programming elective | Content Specific Pedagogy: BCIT |
| General elective | Student Teaching Seminar |
| General elective | Student Teaching Internship: BCIT |
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At Robert Morris University, we’re not just training our students to get a job, we’re educating them for a whole series of professional careers—and for a lifetime of enrichment and contribution. We call the RMU education “engaged learning,” and we are one of a handful of schools around the nation that offers students a Student Engagement Transcript to certify their character-building credentials as well as their academic credentials. Our unique combination of high-quality academics with a professional focus allows us to transform our graduates.
The School of Education and Social Sciences faculty is comprised of caring individuals who accept the responsibility for educating the "whole" student at RMU. Consequently, our faculty members are specialists in their areas of expertise who effectively implement sound instructional practices when teaching and just as importantly, they engage students in a variety of purposeful enrichment activities outside the classroom setting. As all faculty possess related work experience as practitioners in the field, such as principals, superintendents, teachers, researchers, authors, psychologists, counselors, etc., students learn from them first-hand what it takes to succeed.
Scholarships are available based upon academic achievement.
For freshmen, high school grade point average and ACT/SAT scores are used. For transfer students, the cumulative grade point average of all college courses is used. Scholarships range from $1000 per year up to full tuition. (To calculate your scholarship eligibility, click here.)
Higher education is an investment in your future.
At Robert Morris University, we will work closely with you to show you how to finance your education through a combination of need-based financial aid, scholarships, and financing strategies to make your education attainable. RMU has one of the lowest tuition rates of all private institutions in the state, but we know that financing your education can be complicated, and your family might need help in understanding your options.
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