Academic advising for elementary education foundations undergraduates
Welcome to Elementary Education Foundations
This website is designed to provide you with information about the Elementary Education Foundations program and your preparation for the initial licensure program (ILP). As an undergraduate in the elementary education foundations major, you will earn the Bachelor of Science degree but not a teaching license. You will receive preferential admission to the ILP if you have a 2.8 GPA at the time of application and successfully demonstrate expected professional competencies during your undergraduate program.
This website provides answers to the most frequent questions that undergraduate students have about this major. Please check here first before contacting an adviser with questions.
Navigating this website is done through the navigation box to the right.
Advising
You will have a college adviser and two faculty co-advisers. If you are not sure who your adviser is, check your APAS report. Your advisers’ names are listed near the top.
College advisers
You will be assigned to a college adviser in CEHD undergraduate student services. Three advisers work with elementary education foundations:
Rebecca
Dosch Brown
360 Education Sciences
612-624-7184
dosch018@umn.edu
To schedule an appointment, call 612-625-3339
Jaime Gearhart
360 Education Sciences
612-624-1766
siska001@umn.edu
To schedule an appointment, call 612-625-3339
Diane
Wartchow
360 Education Sciences
612-625-6555
wartc001@umn.edu
To schedule an appointment, call 612-625-3339
Responsibilities:
- Pre-admission requirements
- Course schedule review
- Planning for degree completion
- APAS report updates and changes
- Petitions
- Study Abroad options and course approval
- Withdrawals
- Academic holds
- Probation
- Referral to other university services
Please note: Students are responsible for thoroughly reviewing emails from their academic adviser, school, and college representatives.
Faculty advisers
You have two faculty co-advisers. You may contact either one. Both advisers teach undergraduate courses in elementary education and are experienced elementary teachers.
Celeste Berken
125 Peik Hall
612-625-4006
Preferred method of contact: email berk0031@umn.edu
To schedule an appointment, send an email indicating several times you
are available.
Kathy Byrn
60B Peik Hall
612-625-9472
Preferred method of contact: email
byrn0039@umn.edu
To schedule an appointment, send an email indicating several times you
are available.
Responsibilities:
- Professional mentoring
- Major-specific curriculum
- Dispositions and professional competencies
- Selection of a minor
- Questions related to licensure
- Evaluation of transfer courses (Celeste only)
- approval of alternate courses to fulfill program requirements (Celeste only)
Planning for your advising meeting
- Determine a time to meet. To meet with with Rebecca Dosch Brown, Jaime Gearhart or Diane Wartchow, identify drop-in advising hours, or call 612-625-3339 for an appointment. To meet with Celeste Berken or Kathy Byrn, schedule directly with the adviser by sending an email briefly describing your reason for requesting an appointment and several times you are available (email Celeste Berken or Kathy Byrn).
- Develop a list of questions and concerns and bring this list to your advising appointment.
- If you have questions about your course schedule, degree planning or graduation preparation, please make sure to review and print a copy of your APAS report. Bring this document to your advising meeting.
- If you have questions about course equivalencies, please bring a copy of the appropriate course syllabus to your meeting. Celeste Berken is the best person to contact with questions about course equivalencies.
- Remember that the weeks when registration is open are very busy times for advisers. Plan ahead.
- Plan to meet with your college advisor (Rebecca, Jaime or Diane) early in the semester prior to the semester you plan to graduate to ensure that you are on track for graduation.
Revised January 2012
