Typical Timeline
in Teacher Education
Important Dates
CBase: Fall 2007, date and location TBA
Praxis II: Register May 10 for June 9, 2007 exam, and
July 5 for August 4, 2007 exam. See the website www.ets.org/praxis
for more details.
Academic Requirements
To be recommended for certification, a student must have a baccalaureate
degree, a cumulative grade point average of 2.7 or above, and
a grade point average of 2.7 or above in each teaching field.
The requirements for elementary certification are:
- A grade point average of 2.7 in the professional education
core
- Field experience prior to student teaching
- A concentration in Elementary Education and Liberal Studies.
Required course work includes humanities, social sciences, mathematics,
natural sciences and a minor or equivalent in a liberal arts
discipline
- Teaching methods courses in elementary school subjects
- A full term of student teachingu\
The requirements for secondary certification are:
- A recommendation by each department in which a teaching certificate
is sought (Teaching field(s) must be subjects which are ordinarily
taught in secondary schools and for which Coe has approval by
the Iowa Department of Instruction.)
- Field experience prior to student teaching
- A grade point average of 2.7 or better must be achieved in
the professional education core and one of the special methods
courses offered
- A full term of student teaching
The professional education core includes the following
five courses:
- EDU 205 Educational Foundations
- EDU 215 Practicum in Education
- EDU 255 Exceptional Learners
- EDU 385 Human Relations in the Classroom
- EDU 435 Educational Psychology
|
