The Department of Early Childhood, Elementary, and Special Education provide training for those students wishing to obtain teacher licensure in Early Childhood Education (PreK-3), Elementary Education (K-5), Middle Grades Education (6-8), and Special Education. The department also provides the professional education courses for post-baccalaureate students seeking licensure on the undergraduate level. Students wishing to work with children in institutions and agencies other than public schools may choose majors that do not lead to teacher licensure.
Professor of Special Education
Dr. Trish McClung joined Lee's faculty in 2002 and teaches special education in Lee's Helen DeVos College of Education. She began her career in education as a high school teacher in the United Kingdom, but after coming to the US in 1994, she became involved in serving students with disabilities. Prior to Lee, she was a coordinator for students with disabilities for Project Head Start for seven years and then worked in the Bradley County school system as a special education teacher and coordinator for seven years.
McClung has been recognized as Teacher of the Year for Bradley County schools, by the state of Tennessee for her work with inclusive practices in special education, and received the Excellence in Advising Award from Lee University in 2010.
She was awarded her doctorate in education in 2006 through the Center for Applied Research in Education at the University of East Anglia in the UK. She earned her MEd degree (special education emphasis) from Lee University and holds a BEd degree from the University of London in education, religion, and philosophy.
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