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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
Desire2Learn
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 transferable to 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 ten weeks in length offered one after
another
- Coursework broken into two years for licensure program, three
years for licensure plus M.Ed
- 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 (student teaching available by approved variance)
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 and fees) at any one time.
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COURSE WORK (24 credits
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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
middle of the Fall semester
and conclude before winter
break. EDCI 555 will begin
prior to the start 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 |
EDCI 556
(3 credits)
The Legal, Social, and
Practical Basis of Schooling |
Spring/Summer courses. |
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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 eight
courses and all requirements
of the year- long
Internship, including
professional portfolio
review and submission of
Praxis II scores. |
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Optional Third Year Master
of Education
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EDCI 540
(3 credits)
American Indian Studies for
Educators |
Fall/Spring courses. |
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EDCI 564
(3 credits, offered Spring
only)
The Comprehensive Portfolio |
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