Students must have:
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earned a bachelor's degree with an
appropriate major for area of certification;
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submitted a portfolio/writing requirement or passed
a comprehensive examination if required by their program;
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satisfied the general education distribution;
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completed 60 credits in liberal arts (these credits can include courses in the major but cannot include courses in professional education and/or other vocationally oriented coursework [accounting, engineering, etc.]); School 05 (Graduate School of Education undergraduate) or School 15 (Graduate School of Education graduate) courses may not be included; (NOTE: Students admitted prior to February 1, 2017, are required to complete 90 liberal arts credits);
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satisfied the physiology and hygiene requirement
(during their internship semester,
students must either attend a series of seminars addressing issues of human physiology, hygiene, and substance abuse or must pass the official New Jersey Department of Education examination on these topics);
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achieved a minimum cumulative grade-point average of 3.0 in the master's
degree;
(NOTE: Students admitted prior to February 1, 2017, are required to achieve a minimum GPA of 2.75);
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submitted a portfolio of exemplary work; and
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satisfied the New Jersey State Department of Education requirement for training in the prevention of harassment, intimidation, and bullying (HIB).
NOTE:
Courses used to satisfy the general education distribution and 90 credits in liberal arts MUST be on a transcript from a regionally accredited two- or four-year college or university.
edTPA
The edTPA is a performance based assessment that must be completed during the internship semester. Beginning September 1, 2017, candidates must pass the edTPA to earn an initial teacher license (CEAS) in New Jersey.
The edTPA process is built around three-to-five continuous days of standards-based, subject-specific classroom instruction delivered by a candidate, typically at the end of student teaching or clinical practice. It measures candidates' ability to plan, instruct, assess and analyze their teaching. It included unedited video recordings of the candidate teaching and examples of teaching materials (lesson plans, teaching tools, assignments) that demonstrate how the candidate planned instruction, adapted it for diverse learners, and assessed student work.
Each assessment is scored by qualified and trained teachers and teacher educators who are subject matter experts with experience supporting beginning teachers.
You can learn more about the edTPA requirements via your Graduate School of Education (GSE) coursework and at their website, http://edtpa.aacte.org.
Professional Portfolio
In
addition to an award of a master's degree, the GSE five-year programs
culminate in a recommendation to the New Jersey Department of Education
for an appropriate teacher license(s). It is the responsibility of the
GSE program faculty to assure that students have the knowledge, skills,
and dispositions worthy of that license. In addition to course grades,
GPAs, and other traditional measures of student quality, the GSE faculty
will utilize an electronic portfolio of student work as a primary
assessment tool. The contents of the portfolios will be generated by
students throughout the program and will be graded by faculty members
using rubrics aligned to the New Jersey Professional Standards for
Teachers and the Charlotte Danielson Framework for Teaching. Portfolio
items will be housed within a secure online management tool.
