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> Northern
Plains Transition to Teaching
Program Summary
Overview
What is the Northern Plains Transition to Teaching program?
- Graduate level teacher preparation program leading to secondary
teacher licensure (no elementary licensure available)
- Two year program
- Alternative pathway to teacher licensure, allowing participants to enter
the classroom as teachers of record in the second year of the program
- Master's degree available in Curriculum and Instruction (two additional
courses offered during third year)
- Accredited by the State of Montana
The Northern Plains Transition to Teaching program is designed to:
- Meet the needs to those career professionals who are interested in a
transitioning into the teaching profession seamlessly from prior careers
- To meet the hiring needs of our rural states
- Provide a high quality, compact, 100 percent distance (online) program
to well qualified candidates
Candidates for the Northern Plains Transition to Teaching program:
- Have earned at least a baccalaureate (bachelor's) degree in one of
Montana State University's Teachable Subject areas
(TEPP) with a minimum grade point average of 2.5
- Have a proven career track record (five years preferred)
- Demonstrated capacity and the willingness to engage in serious,
concentrated study and preparation in order to move rapidly through this
demanding, highly concentrated course of study
Program Structure
- 24 credits offered in a condensed format, online using WebCT
Learning Management System (eight, three-credit courses)
- Program leads to licensure in Montana, Wyoming, and South Dakota
(other states on a case-by-case basis)
- License that is convertible by reciprocity agreement with most
other states in the U.S. with little or no additional coursework.
- Courses offered one at a time, to ensure that working
professionals may participate
- each course is eight to twelve weeks in length offered one after
another
- Coursework broken into two years
- Second year requires students to engage in a non-traditional
internship, in which the student obtains at least a half-time or
greater contract, salaried teaching position, in lieu of the classic
student teaching
- Alternative internships available
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COURSE WORK (18 credits total) |
FIELD EXPERIENCES |
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Qualification Courses |
EDCI 552
(3 credits)
Human
Development & the Psychology of Learning |
Includes
structured observation in 6 or 7 settings
covering a variety of age groups. |
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EDCI 553
(3 credits)
Diversity,
Special Needs, and Classroom Discipline |
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EDCI 554
(3 credits)
Curriculum
Design, Pedagogy, and Assessment |
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Candidates
are eligible to begin contract teaching
after these first three qualifying courses |
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In-Service Internship / Courses |
EDCI 558
(3 credits)
Internship I
Methods of
Teaching |
EDCI 558 will be taken during the Fall
semester of the “internship” year. EDCI 559
will start towards the end of the Fall
semester and conclude towards the middle of
the Spring semester of the "internship"
year. EDCI 555 will occupy the remainder of
the Spring semester. |
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EDCI 559
(3 credits)
Internship II
Equity,
Special Needs, Diversity |
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EDCI 555
(3 credits)
Technology,
Instructional Design, and Learner Success |
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Continuing
preparation courses below will be offered
the summer following the first year of
teaching so as not to overload new teachers
during their first year. |
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Continuing Preparation Courses |
EDCI 556
(3 credits)
The Legal,
Social, and Practical Basis of Schooling |
Summer
courses, no field experiences available. |
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EDCI 557
(3 credits)
Brain Science,
Educational Research, and Teaching |
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Candidates
are eligible for full licensure after
completion of all six courses and all
requirements of the year- long Internship,
including capstone portfolio review and
submission of Praxis II scores. |
Coursework (18 credits) + Internship (6 credits) = 24
Credits |
Costs
NPTT program students will be charged
$300/credit, or a grand total of $7,200 over the span of the entire licensure program. As
courses run sequentially, not concurrently, students typically do not have
expenditures that exceed $900 (excluding books) at any one time.
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