College of Education and Social Services

Updated Fall 2020

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Required talking points

• Point out Waterman Building - home to CESS and many helpful offices, including Student Financial Services, the Registrar, Transfer Affairs, the President's Office, and the restaurant Waterman Manor

• Majors in CESS

  • Education programs - early childhood, elementary, middle, secondary; art education; music education; physical education; and more.

  • Human Development & Family Studies and Social Work

• Field work for all majors

  • Students in most programs get into the field as early as their sophomore year (or sooner!)

  • Try to stay away away from using the word "classroom" when discussing field experience; although it is generally true, it is important to highlight experiences happening for HDFS and SW majors as well.

  • For example, Social Work majors have a yearlong internships with Vermont social benefit organizations their senior year.

  • For education majors, student teaching classroom experience starts junior year, with the focus on senior student teaching. 60 hours of community teaching is required for a credential, our UVM students graduate will 600-900 hours! 

• Education-specific info

  • ​Education majors will select an area of focus; you can think of this as a concentration for most education programs.

  • This is the only nationally-accredited teaching program in VT 

  • 46 state reciprocity (can say “nearly-all” states)

• CESS students work towards a "more humane and just society" for communities.

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AdvoCat Stories

• Student Teaching

  • In the spring of 2020 (yikes), I had a practicum in an elementary school in Winooski teaching second graders. The room I was in had students who were New Americans, EL (English Learners), ESL (English as a Second Language) making up the majority of the room. There was one little guy who came to Winooski recently from the Congo prior with the ability to speak and understand oral English but unfamiliar with written English. After working with him consistently on learning his letters and sounds, with some encouragement from his peers, he looked at me one day and said "Miss Fallon, that's an A and it makes the /a/ sound- like apple!". He was smiling ear-to-ear and it was one of the most incredible experiences to see him so proud of himself! -Fallon Vancor

• CESS Classes

  • I was taking this class (Birding for Change) when Covid-19 shifted our semester to online. This was definitely a hard transition for everyone and this class in particular was hard, because our class time was spent working with children one day of the week and then birding and exploring with our class on the other days. My professor did an AMAZING job transitioning to online learning, she basically had to rework our entire class. One thing that she decided to add is FaceTime Birding. I would leave my house with my parents to go walk and look for birds and my professor Trish, would be on my phone and she could identify the birds we could see by the bird call through the phone. It was incredible because I was able to access my professors knowledge while being in a completely different state. Trish really helped smooth the transition to at home. She made sure we stayed a tight community that we had created while on campus -Sarah Ladd

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