The undergraduate curriculum includes 810 hours of clinical experience and student teaching distributed through all four years of each bachelors degree program. Because of the limited number of student teachers at any given time, each of our students receives careful supervision in a local school. Supervising teachers in the surrounding junior and senior high schools are screened and trained specifically to work with our students. Because of the nature of Florida Tech and the education programs, our students get a strong background in mathematics and the sciences. Education majors take the same content courses that traditional science and math majors take through their junior year.
Instructional technology is essential to each of the programs.
All students have instructional technology course work, see technology modeled in classes, receive accounts on the university's computer network with a direct link to the worldwide Internet, and have full access to the department's Instructional Technology Laboratory. Jobs for Science and Mathematics Teachers Math and science teachers continue to be in demand. All students in junior and senior high schools in the United States are required to take mathematics courses, and most schools have specific science requirements. Junior high schools typically offer physical and life sciences, while high schools teach biology, chemistry, and physics, in addition to earth, space, and other advanced sciences. While many of our students choose to stay in Florida, a number of them find opportunities in other states and in the Caribbean.