For whatever reason, the Education minor has been an attractive option for English majors. For these former English majors, high school teaching has become an intensely rewarding profession, one that helped them discover unexpected sources of imagination and creativity. Facing a room full of teenage students armed with nothing more than a dog-eared copy of Catcher in the Rye can be scary, funny, surreal, and at times, completely exhilarating. Many of our students look forward to that chance. The process for gaining teacher certification requres some advance planning.
Many students begin the process during the sophomore year.
In addition to the requirements for the English major, students seeking teacher certification must complete 30 semester hours in Education. Students must also complete the State Board of Education Examinations, given during the senior year. Students who are admitted to that program can then take the second and third steps toward certification. Student Teaching Term Education 362 - Curriculum Design for Secondary and Middle School Ed. A typical sequence for teaching certification, then, is to take the Foundations Courses during the sophomore year, the Methodology Block during the junior year, and Student Teach during the spring term of the senior year.