Completion of the General Knowledge and Communications Skills portions of the Core Battery of the National Teachers Examinations with scores of 644 and 645, respectively. The Education 201 student who is registered in the College of Education is given application forms and information for applying. This procedure applies to students in the Alternate Certification Program, as well as to undergraduates majoring in teacher education. The capstone of all good teacher-education programs is the laboratory experience. Only by dealing with children and youth in a classroom can an education major learn to apply successfully those concepts and skills taught in university courses.
Some informal observation is incorporated into all professional education and psychology courses.
In most cases, this observation is related to concepts of the course. Often, however, its objective is to let students experience the classroom to help them in committing to the teaching profession. In the semester immediately preceding student teaching, all students in elementary and secondary education will observe and participate in classes at the level or in the field for which they are preparing to teach. An attempt is made to assign students to schools of differing socio-economic and ethnic makeups. Only students formally admitted to the Teacher Education Program may enroll in either Education 411 or 421.