Students who are confident in their career path and are looking for the most cost-effective, efficient, and direct route to becoming an early childhood public school teacher should pursue the early childhood 4+1 pathway.
Spend the first two years of this program exploring issues of justice and equity as well as curriculum and content as it is enacted in early childhood settings throughout the state.
This program incorporates a heavy field component from the third year onwards and graduates students holding a bachelor's degree, master's degree, and initial license in early childhood education.