Coordinator: Dr. Mary Curran (848-932-0790; email: mary.curran@gse.rutgers.edu)
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English as a Second Language Education (21 credits)
05:300:539 Methods for Teaching and Assessing English Language Learners (3)
05:300:430 Principles of Language Learning: Second and World Language Acquisition (3)
05:300:433 or 15:253:523 Language and Culture (3)
05:300:434 Foundations of Language (3)
15:253:537 Language in Society (3)
Graduate-level electives in foreign language education (6)
Common Professional
Education Core (18 credits)
05:300:306 Introduction to Educational Psychology: Principles of Classroom Learning (3)
05:300:450 Urban Education I (1.5)
05:300:451 Urban Education II (1.5)
05:300:452 Teaching
Emerging Bilinguals in the K-12 Classroom I (1.5)
05:300:453 Teaching
Emerging Bilinguals in the K-12
Classroom II (1.5)
15:255:534 Classroom
Organization for the Inclusive and Special Classroom (3)
15:293:523 Inclusive
Teaching in Education (3)
Choose one from the
following:
15:255:539 Communities, Schools, and Social Justice (3)
15:253:540 Teaching
English Language Learners (3)
05:300:406 Community-Based
Language Learning (3)
Clinical Experience
(20 credits)
15:255:530 Clinical Experience Phase 1 (1)
15:255:531 Clinical Practice Phase 2 (4)
15:255:535 Clinical Phase 3 (9)
15:255:536 Clinical Practice Seminar (6)
Major Requirements
Every
candidate for certification in English as a Second Language education
must complete a full major in a foreign language, English, or applied linguistics.
Language and Cultural Proficiency Requirements
Proficiency
in the target language is to be demonstrated through an Oral
Proficiency Interview (OPI) in the target language administered by the
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL). All
students seeking certification in ESL are required to pass an Oral
Proficiency Interview and a Written Proficiency Test (WPT) in English
administered by ACTFL. To arrange the OPI visit http://www.languagetesting.com. Call 914-963-7110 to schedule the WPT. OPI and WPT results must be on
file with the Office of Student and Academic Services prior to student
teaching.
