Educational Studies: STEM: Math Concentration

The certificate serves as a career ladder approach to a credential or permit or as a stand-alone entity to document that a student has taken coursework related to subject matter proficiency and has acquired skills for successful employment as a teacher's aide, after-school program assistant, tutoring or other paraprofessional level classroom career. 

More specifically the certificate is designed to meet the needs of students following various pathways to classroom teaching or an education-related field: 

• The paraprofessional or aspiring paraprofessional teacher aide.
• The aspiring paraprofessional or currently employed paraprofessional teacher- aide seeking a career ladder approach to a teaching credential and/or child development permit.
• The teacher- aide paraprofessional who has decided against pursuing an AA and/or credential or permit but would like to acquire knowledge and skills/ professional development relevant to serving as a teacher assistant or support staff in a classroom or school or related environment, concentrating on providing students support in mathematics.
•  Teacher preparation for students on a transfer pathway for a BA and Credential who also desire certificate recognition in Educational Studies STEM: with a Math Concentration.
• Independent tutors seeking a certificate to augment their training and expertise.

  In order to provide an additional pathway to an education-related career, this certificate is specially designed to meet the needs of students interested in an education/ teaching-related career who prefer online classes and/or cannot always attend traditional face-to-face classes due to employment, marital status, family responsibilities, distance, and expenses incurred with traditional education schedules. All certificate classes are online.

Following completion of the certificate, it is expected that students will be able to:

1. Work effectively with students, teachers, parents, colleagues, and administrators in a school and classroom setting.
   
2. Apply knowledge, skills, and experience to make an informed choice to be employed or to continue study in the field of education.
3. Apply the certificate towards entry into a teaching credential or child development permit program, and/or the certificate may serve to document the acquisition of knowledge and skills relevant for employment as a teacher assistant or support staff in a classroom, school, or related environment.
   

Possible employment/ illustrative examples:  Teacher assistant transitional kindergarten (TK) and/ or K-8; teacher assistant 8-12 remedial math; position requiring practical skills and knowledge to work with children in an after-school care, tutoring, or mentoring program/ (focusing on math providing support in math); paraprofessional providing tutoring/homework assistance and/or assisting in academic enrichment programs; test preparation assistant or content assistant, test prep: CSET, CBEST, SAT; nanny; Lego theme park worker for mathematics oriented exhibits.

initially 10-20 a year

The certificate serves as a career ladder approach to a credential or permit or as a stand-alone entity to document that a student has taken coursework related to subject matter proficiency and has acquired skills for successful employment as a teacher's aide, after-school program assistant, tutoring or other paraprofessional level classroom career. 

OUTCOME 1: Work effectively with students, teachers, parents, colleagues, and administrators in a school and classroom setting.

OUTCOME 2: Apply knowledge, skills, and experience to make an informed choice to be employed or to continue study in the field of education.

OUTCOME 3: Apply the certificate towards entry into a teaching credential or child development permit program, and/or the certificate may serve to document the acquisition of knowledge and skills relevant for employment as a teacher assistant or support staff in a classroom, school, or related environment.

 In order to provide an additional pathway to an education-related career, this certificate is designed for students interested in an education/ teaching-related career who prefer online classes and/or cannot always attend traditional face-to-face classes due to employment, marital status, family responsibilities, distance, and expenses incurred with traditional education schedules. All certificate classes are online and include 14 units of specific required courses and 2-3 units for an elective.  

Similar courses are available in the LA/Orange County Region but none are defined together as a teacher preparation STEM certificate with a Math concentration that is offered and available in an asynchronous format and completely online; across the State similar related online education certificates, according to the OEI/CVC,  may be available at Cerro Coso and Modesto Community Colleges,  but not necessarily with a teacher preparation STEM concentration in Math.  

This certificate is especially appropriate for students following various pathways to classroom teaching or an education-related career:

• The paraprofessional or aspiring paraprofessional teacher aide.
• The aspiring paraprofessional or currently employed paraprofessional teacher- aide seeking a career ladder approach to a teaching credential and/or child development permit.
• The teacher- aide paraprofessional who has decided against pursuing an AA and/or credential or permit but would like to acquire knowledge and skills/ professional development relevant to serving as a teacher assistant or support staff in a classroom or school or related environment, concentrating on providing students support in mathematics.
• Teacher preparation for students on a transfer pathway for a BA and Credential who also desire certificate recognition in Educational Studies STEM: with a Math Concentration.
•   Independent tutors seeking a certificate to augment their training and expertise.

Possible employment/ illustrative examples:

 Possible employment/career possibilities include: Teacher assistant transitional kindergarten (TK) and/ or K-8; teacher assistant 8-12 remedial math; position requiring practical skills and knowledge to work with children in an after-school care, tutoring, or mentoring program/ (focusing on math providing support in math); paraprofessional providing tutoring/homework assistance and/or assisting in academic enrichment programs; test preparation assistant or content assistant, test prep: CSET, CBEST, SAT; nanny; Lego theme park worker for mathematics oriented exhibits.

TOP CODE: 080200 Teacher Assistant 

CIP code 13.1599 Teaching Assistants/Aides, Other

 

Courses do not have to be taken in any fixed order or semester.  

Required Courses: 

Course Number	Course Name	Units
REQUIRED COURSES:
EDUC C101	Tutor Training	1
MATH C104	Mathematics for Elementary School Teachers	3
MATH C106	Geometry for Elementary School Teachers	3
MATH C160	Introduction to Statistics	4
EDUC C180	School, Family, Community Partnerships	3
ELECTIVES    Select 2-3 units from the following courses
EDUC C103	Introduction to Computers in Education: Technology Proficiencies for Teachers I	2
EDUC C211	Media Literacy Toolkit for Teachers	3
EDUC C210	Introduction to Special Education	3

Total Units:  minimum  16

One of the online pathways to a teaching or education related career offered by Coastline's Department of Education

Similar courses are available in the LA/Orange County Region but none are defined together as a teacher preparation STEM certificate with a Math concentration that is offered and available in an asynchronous format and completely online; across the State similar related online education certificates, according to the OEI/CVC, may be available at Cerro Coso and Modesto Community Colleges, but not necessarily with a teacher preparation STEM concentration in Math.

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