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Florida Teacher Certification
There are several ways to meet the State’s Professional Preparation/Practical Teaching Experience and Professional Education Competency (PEC) requirements. The information contained here represents the alternative process of partially meeting the Professional Preparation requirement by taking courses through USF. The State’s requirement changed July 27, 2006. This document represents the requirements in effect ONLY for those who applied for certification prior to July 27, 2006. Refer to your official Statement of Status of Eligibility from Tallahassee.
IMPORTANT NOTE: The requirements in this document are only in effect for those who applied for certification prior to July 27, 2006!!!
Florida Teacher Certification
PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION COURSES/PRACTICAL TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Professional preparation includes courses and experiences designed to acquaint the teacher with the instructional task.
Twenty (20) semester hours in professional preparation courses as specified below:
(Only 18 hours are required in Educational Leadership, Educational Media Specialist, Elementary Education, Exceptional Student Education, Guidance and Counseling, Physical Education, Reading, School Psychologist, ESOL, and Administration of Adult Education.)
(1) Course requirements in education to include:
a) Six (6) semester hours in foundations of education with credit in both sociological foundations and psychological foundations as described below (can be completed at accredited/approved junior/community college):
1. Sociological foundations includes courses such as Intro to Education, History of Education, Teaching Diverse Populations, Philosophy of Education, School and Community, American Education, etc.
APPROVED USF COURSES: Choose at least one (1).
EDF 2005 – Introduction to Education and Field Experience
EDF 3604 – Sociological Foundations of Education
EDF 5607 – Trends in Socio-Political Foundations of Schooling in the US
EDF 6517 – Historical Foundations of American Education
EDF 6544 – Philosophical Foundations of American Education
EDF 6606 – Socio-Economic Foundations of American Education
EDF 6765 – Gender and the Educational Process
EDF 6812 – Seminar in Comparative Education
EDG 2701 – Teaching Diverse Populations and Field Experience
2. Psychological foundations includes courses such as Educational
Psychology, Child Development, Adolescent Psychology, Learning,
Human Development and Learning, Cognition, etc.
APPROVED USF COURSES: Choose at least one (1).
DEP 3103 – Child Development
DEP 4053 – Developmental Psychology
DEP 6058 – Developmental Psychology
EDF 3122 – Learning and the Developing Child
EDF 3214 – Human Development and Learning
EDF 4131 – Learning and the Developing Adolescent
EDF 6120 – Child Development
EDF 6211 – Psychological Foundations of Education
EDF 6213 – Biological Bases for Learning Behavior
EDF 6215 – Learning Principles Applied to Intruction
EXP 4404 – Psychology of Learning
b) Six (6) semester hours in general methods of teaching, administration, and curriculum in the elementary or secondary school. Courses should relate to principles of teaching, general curriculum, testing and measurement, evaluation of the school program, general methods and school organization and administration needed by teachers in the public schools. (Must be completed at four-year institution.)
APPROVED USF COURSES: Choose at least two (2).
EDF 4430 – Measurement for Teachers
EDA 6061 – Principles of Educational Administration
EDA 6106 – Administrative Analysis and Change
EDA 6192 – Educational Leadership
EDA 6195 – Policy Development
EDA 6232 – School Law
EDA 6242 – School Finance
EDA 6262 – Planning Educational Facilities
EDA 6503 – The Principalship
EDE 4301 – Classroom Mgmt., School Safety, Ethics, Law and Elem. Methods
EDE 6205 – School Curriculum: Elementary
EDE 6502 – Classroom Mgmt., School Safety, Ethics and the Law
(course number will change January ‘07 to EDE 6506)
EDE 6804 – Planning and Organizing for Instruction in the Elementary School
(course number will change January ’07 to EDE 6326)
EDF 6432 – Foundations of Measurement
EDG 6627 – Foundations of Curriculum and Instruction
EDG 6693 – Problems in Curriculum and Instruction: Elementary
(course number will change August '06 to EDE 6225)
EDG 6694 – Problems in Curriculum and Instruction: Middle School
(course number will change August '06 to EDM 6256)
EDG 6695 – Problems in Curriculum and Instruction: Secondary
(course number will change August '06 to ESE 6256)
EDM 6235 – School Curriculum: Middle
EDS 6050 – Principles and Practices of Educational Supervision
EDS 6131 – Clinical Supervision
EDS 6239 – Problems in Supervision
ESE 4322 – Classroom Management for a Diverse School and Society
ESE 5344 – Classroom Management for a Diverse School and Society
ESE 6215 – School Curriculum and Secondary
LIS 6542 – The Curriculum and Instructional Technology
c) Special Methods: Course number(s) will depend upon certification coverage. Must be completed at four-year institution. Courses not always all available to non-degree-seeking students.
- Grades K-12. Four (4) semester hours in methods of teaching the subject to include credit at the elementary and secondary levels for Art, Dance, Computer Science, Foreign Languages, Health, Humanities and Music. (Because most courses are either elementary or secondary, some K-12 coverages will require two (2) courses.)
- Middle grades (5-9) and secondary (6-12). Two (2) semester hours in methods of teaching the subject at the appropriate level for each middle grade or secondary subject.
d) Electives to bring total hours in professional preparation courses to 20 or use practical teaching experience to waive remaining hours (see note* below.)
(2) Practical experience in teaching. Practical experience in teaching may be satisfied by one (1) of the plans listed below:
a) Six (6) semester hours earned in a college student teaching program or in a supervised internship completed in an elementary or secondary school. (USF’s NCATE accreditation prevents us from providing internships to anyone not admitted to one of our education degree-seeking programs.)
OR
b) Equivalent of two (2) years of full-time teaching experience with a temporary certificate in a public, or state-supported nonpublic elementary or secondary school or in a pre-school school which is operated by a public school district.
(NOTE: *Once the practical teaching experience requirement has been met, two years of teaching (3 hours for each year) can be used to waive the remaining hours toward the total 20 hours required in professional preparation.)
IMPORTANT NOTE: Please be aware that obtaining teacher certification by way of course-by-course analysis DOES NOT constitute a “state-approved teacher education program.” This may cause problems should you move to another state. The interstate or reciprocal agreement between states applies only to state-approved teacher preparation programs, which at USF would lead to a degree in education. If you choose this option, you may be not be eligible for certification in another state without additional work.
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