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Admission Requirements

General Requirements
 
  • Must have a personal e-mail account and access to a personal (not school) computer with Microsoft Word
  • Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution of higher education as required by the State Board for Educator Certification Texas Administration Code
  • 2.50 Overall GPA, or
  • 2.50 GPA in last 60 hours prior to receiving conferred degree, or
  • 2.50 GPA in content courses
  • Competency in reading, writing, and math will be determined by an evaluation of transcripts or
  • THEA / TASP (Reading – 230, Writing – 220, Math – 230)
  • 'B' or better in English composition, literature, math or a combination approved by program staff
  • SAT (Verbal – 500, Math – 450), ACT (Reading and Writing – 23, Math – 21), or GRE (Verbal – 350, Quantitative - 350) Scores
  • Bilingual candidates may be required to take an oral proficiency test
    • TOEFL – Computer Assisted – 213, Paper – 550
    • TSE – 50
  • Successful screening of candidate – all program participants will undergo the Haberman Interview and will complete a Gallup TeacherInsight™ assessment
Content Hour Requirements
 
  • EC - 4 Generalist/Bilingual or Generalist/English as a Second Language
    • A combination of 24 hours in English, math (statistics is not applicable to this area of certification), science, and social studies with at least six semester hours in each subject (Math must be College Algebra or higher. Statistic courses are not considered in the evaluation.)
    • Additional English hours are required for the ESL certification
 
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