Coordinator:
Dr. Mary Curran (732-932-7496, ext. 8101; email: mary.curran@gse.rutgers.edu)
Please visit the website.
The Graduate School of Education offers a postbaccalaureate master's degree/initial teacher certification program in English as a Second Language (ESL) Education. The program requires that a student have an appropriate liberal arts major, 90 credits in liberal arts, and satisfaction of the general education distribution. The requirements needed to satisfy the general education distribution can be found in the Office of Academic Services, Room 110, Graduate School of Education (732-932-7496, ext. 8132).
The specific program requirements are as follows:
ESL Education (21 credits)
05:300:431 Teaching World Language/ESL in Elementary Schools (3)
05:300:432 Teaching World Language/ESL in Secondary Schools (3)
15:253:520 Principles of Second/Foreign Language Acquisition (3)
15:253:521 Introduction to English as a Second/Foreign Language (3)
15:253:523 Language and Culture (3)
15:253:536 English Structure and Phonology (3)
16:300:535 Foundations of Language I (3)
Common Professional Education Core (12 credits)
05:300:306 Educational Psychology: Principles of Classroom Learning (3)
15:255:533 Assessment and Measurement for Teachers (2)
15:255:534 Classroom Organization (1)
15:255:537 Education, Ethics, and Society (3)
15:255:538 Teacher as Researcher (3)
Internship in Teaching (12 credits)
15:255:535 Teaching Internship (9)
15:255:536 Teaching Internship Seminar (3)
Language and Cultural Proficiency Requirements
1. Proficiency in English to be demonstrated through an Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) and a Writing Proficiency Test (WPT). (To schedule the OPI and WPT, contact the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) at http://www.languagetesting.com.) OPI and WPT results must be on file prior to student teaching.
2. Evidence of second/foreign language or cultural experience, such as experience living in a second cultural setting; completion of one or more foreign language course(s) (minimum 3 credits); acquisition of second/foreign language (in a nontraditional setting).
3. There is no OPI for Latin; however, there is a Latin test requirement: http://www.state.nj.us/education/aps/cccs/wl/latin_test.htm.
