Catalog 2005-2006
Graduate School of Education and Counseling

Information found in this online edition of the 2005-06 Catalog is unofficial and for informational purposes only. The official document of record is the printed edition of the 2005-06 Catalog. For more information, please contact the Dean of the Graduate School.

Please Note: This is the 2005-2006 catalog. It is now out of date, and included here only for archival purposes. Please use the current edition. Thank you.

Continuing Teaching License

The Continuing Teaching License Program provides a setting for teachers to form communities of learning that offer a broad range of intellectual opportunities. Throughout the program, new teachers share their talents, identify their needs, and expand their abilities to support the design of K-12 curricula and learning activities that have real-world significance to their students and communities. Through interactive, small-group seminars and portfolio documentation, teachers participating in the program explore and gather authentic assessments in three areas: (1) the learning environment, (2) the teaching and learning cycle, and (3) teacher professionalism. Class discussions, portfolio construction, and reflective writing are designed to encourage rich dialogue and enhanced practice among participating teachers.

Among our faculty, participants will find a wide range of teaching and scholarly interests, including such areas as literacy and writing across the curriculum, child and adolescent development and learning, classroom management and serving students at risk, equity issues and multicultural education, small schools, teacher research, the writing process, inquiry approaches to science and mathematics learning, moral development and ethics, drama education, and community and environmental regeneration. The teacher education department is committed to working with teachers who are lifelong learners, agents of change in their schools, and contributors to democratic education and social justice.

Teachers who seek a Continuing License are invited to participate in the 6-semester-hour program. The stand-alone program comprises three 2-semester-hour classes, which incorporate topics such as teacher as researcher, evaluation and assessment, multicultural education, differentiated instruction, classroom management, technology integration, and sustaining the teacher within. Courses may be applied to a master's degree if desired.

Teachers may combine the Continuing License with an endorsement in a new subject area, special education, drama, reading, mathematics, or ESOL/bilingual education; an additional authorization to teach at a new grade level; or an Initial Administrator License.*

Required Courses for Stand-Alone Continuing Teaching License (to be taken in sequence)
ED 521A/621A Inquiry Into Practice I, 1-2 semester hours
ED 521B/621B Inquiry Into Practice II, 1-2 semester hours
ED 521C/621C Inquiry Into Practice III, 1-2 semester hours