Our teacher education program has an excellent reputation. What makes teacher education at Mount Mercy so special is that we emphasize continuous, hands-on experience with students and teachers, beginning early in the program. You will gradually build your strengths in instructional planning, teaching strategies, and classroom management.

By staying in touch with schools over the course of your studies, you will build yourself bridges between theory, research, and application. You will find that area schools will value the important experience you will have gained through student teaching in diverse environments.

Our program offers majors in both elementary and secondary education. Elementary education majors receive in-depth preparation in at least one additional field of study. Secondary education majors must have at least 30 semester hours in an academic field, in addition to the major’s requirements.

Supplementing our academic program, the Curriculum Center in Busse Library provides convenient access to many materials used by teachers (texts, adolescent literature, teaching resource books, etc.). We also sponsor two clubs, the S-ISEA (Iowa State Education Association) and the Storytelling Club. These clubs are great ways for you, as an education major, to build experience. We discuss S-ISEA further in the “How will I gain experiecnce?” section of this web site.

While valuing the diverse cultural environments in which our students will teach, we also offer an emphasis for those who wish to teach at parochial schools. The Teachers in Catholic Schools program is optional, and must be taken in conjunction with another endorsement. Given our heritage as a Catholic college, this program is unique to Mount Mercy, in the Cedar Rapids area. You can find more information in the current catalog.

If you find the education program at Mount Mercy interesting, you can view more information in the following pages about endorsements, application requirements, student teaching, and more.

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What classes should I take to enter the program?
What will it take to graduate?
Four-Year Plans for Elementary Education, Secondary Education, Instructional Strategist I, Instructional Strategist II and Unified Early Childhood Endorsement and Pre-K Endorsement
How will I gain experience?
What can I do with an education degree from Mount Mercy College?
Who can I talk to?
Resources for Education Job Seekers
Education Department

Master's in Education