EDUCATION
Education is the Peace Corp’s largest program area.
Teach lessons that last a lifetime. Volunteers play an important role in creating links among schools, parents, and communities by working in elementary, secondary, and postsecondary schools as math, science, conversational English, and resource teachers or as early grade reading and literacy teacher trainers. Volunteers also develop libraries and technology resource centers.
If you choose Education, take 3 courses from one of the following areas:
- English
- Mathematics & Statistics
- Biological Sciences
- Education
- Computer Science
- Communications
Recommended courses:
- CTE 2000: Inquiry into Teaching Career & Technical Education
- CTE 3404: Seminar in Teaching Technology
- CDS 2200: Language Acquisition
- CDS 2800: Speech Science
- CDS 3200: Developmental Language Disorder
- CDS 4820: Language & Literacy
- CMN 1310: Introduction to Speech Communication
- CMN 2630: Introduction to Interpersonal Communication
- CMN 3210: Rhetoric of Protest, Movement, & Resistance
- CSM 1000: Introduction to Computer Science
- CSM 2170: Computer Science
- CSM 2670: Object Oriented Programming
- CSM 3870: Data Structures
- ENG 2901: Structure of English
- o ENG 3401: Methods of Teaching Writing
- o ENG 3402: Methods of Teaching Literature
- ENG 3405: Children’s Literature
- ENG 3902: Second Language Acquisition and the Teaching of English
- ENG 4903: Young Adult Literature
- GEO 3780: Land Use Planning
- GEO 3810: Introduction to GIS
- MAT 2250G: Elementary Statistics
- MAT 1170G Problem Solving
- MAT 1441G: Calculus & Analytic Geometry
- MAT 2800: Foundations of Mathematics
- MAT 2270: Technology in Mathematics
- WLE 3400: Methods of Teaching Foreign Language
- WLS/F/G 3501: Languages for Young Learners
And build 50 hours of related field experience through an activity such as:
• Teaching in one of these or a similar form: in a classroom, with a community outreach organization, or in a formal tutoring capacity
• The subject of the teaching may be English as a Foreign/Second Language, special education, drama, or a STEM subject
• Work in the Creative Writing Center
• Volunteer to assist refugees and immigrants at the in Champaign, Illinois
• Volunteer with Panther Peer Mentoring
• Search for in Urbana-Champaign, Springfield, or Charleston for jobs pertaining to teaching English as a second language.
• Volunteer at Amigos & Friends.
• Work as a tutor in the mathematics and computer science department
• Work as a lab assistant in the STEM Department
• Work as a French, Spanish, German tutor in the EIU Department of World Languages and Cultures.