There are three Secondary licensure programs:

• Transition to Teaching (IUB and IUPUI) and
• Community of Teachers (IUB only)
• Exceptional Needs: Mild Intervention (IUB): PENDING final approval

The Secondary Transition to Teaching (ST2T) programs are full-time, 18 credit hour, year-long field-based programs intended to develop and support reflective teaching, promote thoughtful and innovative practices in secondary schools, and make optimal use of the professional resources that currently exist in schools, the community, and the university. The programs are designed for students who have earned a baccalaureate degree in a content discipline and who are interested in becoming secondary teachers of that discipline. In most cases, full-time students will earn their secondary teaching certificate after one calendar year of course work and accompanying field experiences.

Licensure areas within the secondary transition-to-teaching program will include science education, mathematics education, social studies education, English education, journalism and Theater Arts and world language education.

Indiana law requires secondary applicants to have one of the following (1, 2, or 3):

• a bachelor's degree from an accredited institution of higher education with a grade point average of 2.5 on 4.0 scale; and
• five years of professional experiences in the subject area that the person intends to teach.

SECONDARY TRANSITION-TO-TEACHING PROGRAM (18 cr.)

BLOOMINGTON

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• H520 Social Issues in Education (3 cr.)
• L517 Advanced Study of Content Reading and Literacy (2 cr.)
• M500 Integrated Professional Seminar (1 cr. per semester; 3 semesters required)
• P510 Psychology in Teaching (3 cr.)
• S555 Human Diversity and Disability in the Middle School/High School Classroom (3 cr.)
• F500 Student Teaching: Secondary (1-3 cr.)

Choose one course:

• M522 Advanced Methods in the Teaching of Middle/Junior High School Mathematics (3 cr.)
• Q515 Workshop in Science Education: Methods of Teaching Secondary Science (3 cr.)
• S519 Advanced Methods of Teaching Senior/Junior High/Middle School Social Studies (3 cr.)
• L516 Advanced Study in the Teaching of English/Language Arts (3 cr.)
• L520 Advanced Study in Foreign Language Teaching (3 cr.)
• M458 Methods of Teaching Health and Safety (3 cr.)
• JOUR J525 Supervision of School Publications (3 cr.)
• THTR T478 Methods and Materials for Teaching High School Theatre and Drama (3 cr.)

SECONDARY TRANSITION-TO-TEACHING PROGRAM (18 cr.)

INDIANAPOLIS

Unit 1: Learning as Inquiry—Summer Session 2

• P510: Psychology and Teaching (3 cr.)

Unit 2: Middle School—Fall

Five days per week with a mentor in an IUPUI partnership middle school.

• S521 Teaching and Learning in the Middle School (5 cr.)
• M500 Integrated Professional Seminar (1 cr.)

Unit 3: High School—Spring

Teaching in a high school five days per week.

• Appropriate "special methods" class for content area (3 cr.)
• S531 Teaching and Learning in the High School (2 cr.)
• M500 Integrated Professional Seminar (1 cr.)

Unit 4: Reflective Practitioner—Summer 1

• M590 Independent Study (portfolio development) (2 cr.)
• M500 Integrated Professional Seminar (1 cr.)
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SECONDARY COMMUNITY OF TEACHERS PROGRAM (Bloomington only)

 A highly individualized way to earn a secondary teaching license, Community of Teachers (CoT) centers on an ongoing seminar that features intensive, hands-on work in one school. Students complete the program not by earning course credits but by completing a portfolio of evidence of their ability as teachers.

The central requirement of the program is an ongoing seminar (EDUC S500, 3 cr.) that is led from one semester to the next by the same faculty member. Each seminar group contains students from different majors and includes both beginning students and student teachers. Each semester the seminar's focus is determined by the students and their professor; and under the umbrella of the seminar each student organizes and carries out an individualized program of preparation. Two semesters of S500 are the minimum.

CoT students spend one day a week in a school of their choice, each working with a teacher of their choice who has consented to be their mentor. The relationship continues throughout the students' professional preparation, including ten weeks of student teaching (EDUC M550, 10 cr.).

The activities of the apprenticeship are guided by a list of 30 program expectations that students satisfy by building evidence of their teaching capabilities. The evidence is organized in a portfolio that supports the case students must make to the faculty of their readiness to enter the profession.

Three additional courses are required to complete the professional education portion of the program:

(1) L517 Advanced Study of Content Reading and Literacy (2-3 cr.)

(2) Subject methods course as appropriate to the content field (3 cr.), Fall only:

• JOUR J525 Supervision of School Publications (3 cr.)
• L516 Advanced Study in the Teaching of English/Language Arts (3 cr.)
• L520 Advanced Study in Foreign Language Teaching (3 cr.)
• M522 Teaching Mathematics in the Secondary School (3 cr.)
• Q506 Methods of Teaching Senior High/Junior High/Middle School Science (3 cr.)
• S519 Advanced Study in the Teaching of Secondary School Social Studies (3 cr.)
• THTR T478 Methods and Materials for Teaching High School Theatre and Drama (3 cr.)

(3) M550 Student Teaching (10 cr.)

In addition, students must complete the requirements for the content area in which they are interested in teaching.  This knowledge is gained by completing the requirements of subject areas as listed in the undergraduate bulletin, with the substitution of graduate courses as possible. Subject areas are in health; journalism; language arts (English); mathematics; science (biology, chemistry, earth-space, and physics); social studies (history, government, geography, economics, sociology, and psychology); theatre; and world languages (Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Latin, Russian, and Spanish).

FALL:  

• K505 Introduction to Special Education for Graduate Students (3 cr.), Fall or Previous Summer
• S500 Community of Teachers Special Education Orientation Seminar (2 cr.)
• K565 Collaboration and Service Delivery (3 cr.)

SPRING:

• K535 Assessment and Remediation of the Mildly Handicapped I (3 cr.)
• K553 Classroom Management and Behavior (3 cr.)  
• S500 Field-Based Seminar in Teacher Education (Community of Teachers )(3 cr.)

SUMMER:

• K548 Families, School, and Society (3 cr.)

Reading/Language Arts: 

• L545 Advanced Study in the Teaching of Reading in Elementary Schools (3 cr.)  or   L5l7 Advanced Study of Content Reading and Literacy (3 cr.) or L504 Identifying and Working with Learner Literacy Difficulties (3 cr.) P: L517 or L545 and P507

Second FALL:

• K536 Assessment and Remediation of the Mildly Handicapped II (3 cr.), P: K535
• K510 Assistive Technology in Special Education (3 cr.)
• S500 Field-Based Seminar in Teacher Education (Community of Teachers )(3 cr.)

Second SPRING or Third FALL:

• M550 Student Teaching: Special Education (10 weeks/10 cr.) P: completion of 20/30 portfolio expectations

Spring/Fall: 

Completion of Portfolio before recommendation for licensure.

 This program also requires documentation of being Highly Qualified in a Core Academic Subject (Secondary) or for Elementary.  See advisor for options.