Fast track your goal to becoming a teacher, and begin a rewarding career dedicated to promoting well-being, happiness and success for every child.
Scholarships
Explore the many ways Adelphi helps you with the cost of tuition.
Accelerate Your Path to Teaching
Launch your career in education one year sooner with Adelph’s unique combined teaching degree program. You’ll earn your bachelor’s and master’s degrees in just five years, and save a year of time and tuition, with our Scholar Teacher Education Program (STEP).
Teaching the skills that all teachers need for the 21st century: resilience, respect for inclusion and cultural understanding.
Adelphi’s School of Education helps students become change-makers and leaders in their school communities, dedicated to changing the lives of the children they teach.
- Small classes
- Close faculty-student collaboration
- Strong partnerships with local schools
- Preparation for certification exams, with high success rates
Two departments – one focusing on learning and technology, and the other in expression, leadership, and inclusion – give you an exceptionally comprehensive approach to a successful career in teaching.
Study Teaching by Being a Teacher
Hands-on experience in local schools, with educational faculty who support your success.
Student Teaching
Apply what you’ve learned in a real classroom setting. Student teaching is a full-time, daytime responsibility working with local partner schools, and includes a weekly seminar at Adelphi. It is an invaluable part of your teacher training.
Alice Brown Early Learning Center
The Alice Brown Early Learning Center, known as the ELC, is a bright, colorful state-of-the-art learning center for young children, located directly on our Garden City campus. It provides exceptional opportunities for future teachers to become volunteers or paid graduate assistants; observe learning; and apply teaching theories learned in classroom settings.
Graduate Assistantships
School of Education assistantships ease the cost of your education and help you gain valuable hands-on experience. You may be tutoring at the Literary Center, observing children at the Early Learning Center, assisting with administrative tasks, or participating in research or special projects.
The internship was definitely really good for me in terms of getting hands-on experience with teaching. It was a good networking experience. too. Easily one of the best decisions I made was to apply for the internship through Adelphi. I become a full-time teacher starting in September!
Miguel Velasquez ‘23, MA ‘24
Scholar Teacher Education (STEP) Accelerated 5-Year Program
Small Classes, Global Approach
Xiao-lei Wang, PhD, the dean of Ruth S. Ammon College of Education and Health Sciences (CEHS), guided a team of Adelphi pupils on an excursion to Italy. In the video “Following in the Footsteps of Educational Thinkers,” Dr. Wang stated that the College has a philosophy of “expanding the classroom to the world.” During the journey, CEHS students visited various destinations, including Rome, Pompeii, Florence, Pisa, and Venice.
A Close Community for Future Educators
Student Organizations
Find opportunities to connect, build friendships, and network at the Future Teacher’s Association Club. A dedicated honor society, Kappa Delta Pi, as well as volunteer opportunities within local schools, give Adelphi’s education students exceptional opportunities outside the classroom.
Life as an Adelphi Panther
What’s it like outside the classroom at Adelphi? With over 90 clubs and activities, exciting athletics and intramurals, there’s lots of student life. Sarah Carbain, a future teacher, shares her story.
Focus on Research: New Discoveries for Student Success
Awards & Recognition
