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南’s secondary education programs prepare students to teach 英语 language arts, mathematics, science and social studies to students in grades 6-12 through rich experiences both on the college campus and in local classrooms under the guidance of mentor teachers.

Jobs in Secondary Education

  • 英语 language arts teacher (including 英语, drama, journalism)
  • Mathematics teacher
  • Science teacher (including general science, biology, 化学, 物理)
  • Social studies teacher (including history, government, economics, sociology)

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南 Experience Leads to France

Raven McShan

Raven McShan, the daughter and granddaughter of Mobile school teachers, started her career as a reading intervention teacher at Hankins Middle School in Theodore, Alabama.

She lived at home, so it was easy to talk shop with her mom, who’s a literacy coach.

“My dad is like, ‘OK, I guess you’re going to talk about your students for the next two hours,’ and that’s what we do,” McShan 说. “I’ll tell her about a student with problems, and she’ll say, ‘You ought to try this.’ And then I’ll come home the next day and say, ‘It worked.’”

在南, where her older sister and younger sister also enrolled as students, McShan was a member of the Honors College. She spent a lot of time in the historic Seamen’s Bethel, the college’s headquarters. Her honors thesis was a poetry collection called “Writing Nooks and Reading Crannies.”

After graduating from 南 in 2019, she traveled to Europe through the French Embassy’s Teaching Assistant Program in France. McShan spent a school year teaching 英语 in Domfront, a town of about 3,000 people in Normandy.

 

"It’s all about stories and helping people get comfortable with learning.”

 

“You’d be surprised,” she 说, “by the similarities between 南ern people in America and countryside people in France.”

Speaking French was part of teaching 英语. Local slang included “bah oui,” which, depending on the situation, means “oh, yeah,” “oh, no” and several other things.

McShan is vegan, as well as lactose intolerant, so enjoying the local cuisine was problematic.

“You can’t escape cheese — it’s part of every meal, every course, practically,” she 说. “My apartment was down the street from a Camembert factory.”

When McShan returned to Mobile and began teaching, she used her experience in France with those struggling to read.

“The beauty of spontaneous conversation,” she 说. “If I started with nouns and verbs, I would get stares, but if it was a news clip, boom, we’re having a conversation. It’s all about stories and helping people get comfortable with learning.”


Did You Know?

  • Secondary education majors at 南 spend more time in local classrooms getting mentorship from teachers than those at any other secondary certification program in the state.
  • Online courses in the program combine synchronous and asynchronous learning so students get face time with instructors and classmates even in the digital environment.
  • 学生 who complete a secondary education program at 南 graduate with a double major in education and in their content area of focus.

 

联系人:

Dr. Susan Ferguson
Associate Professor, Program Coordinator
Leadership and Teacher Education Department
(251) 380-2797

Curriculum and Degree Requirements

 

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