Program requirements are completion of 34 credits of the following coursework:

 Courses in Educational Innovation (28 credits)

• ED 507 Stability and Change in American Education (4 credits)
• ED 509 Consciousness-Based Curriculum Design (4 credits)
• ED 510 Theory and Practice of Consciousness-Based Education (2 credits)
• ED 511 Educational Assessment and Evaluation (4 credits)
• ED 520 Neurophysiology of Learning and Development (4 credits)
• ED 522 Building Community (or other Forest Academy) (2 credits)
• ED 526 Teaching with Learner Differences in Mind (4 credits)
• ED 549 Mastering Classroom Management (2 credits)
• ED 647 Technology in the Service of Learning (2 credits)

Intern Teaching

Students accepted into the Secondary Education Fast-Track Program are responsible to find, with the assistance of the Department, an Iowa middle or high school willing to hire them as an intern. They then complete a one-year full-pay teaching internship with mentoring from school faculty in their school and from the Education Department. The following courses are taken during (ED 594) and after (ED 580) the internship:

• ED 594 Intern Teaching Seminar (4 credits)
• ED 580 Foundations of Professional Success (2 credits)