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Contact Information:

Department Chair:
Nella B. Anderson
970.943.2157
nanderson@western.edu

Nella B. Anderson

Program and Advising Coordinator:
Susan Hanny
970.943.2030
shanny@western.edu

Susan Hanny

Address:
Education Program
Crawford Hall
Western State College of Colorado
600 N. Adams
Gunnison, CO 81231

 

Post B.A. Licensure

Thank you for your interest. The Post BA Licensure Program (formerly Teach Now) is undergoing many changes for next year and is closed to new applications for the 2009 - 2010 program year. The program will begin accepting applications for the 2010 - 2011 year in January 2010. If you have questions about the program that are not answered below, please contact the Program Director, Nella Bea Anderson at nanderson@western.edu or 970.943.2157

Please send me more information as it becomes available.

Program Overview for Initial Licensure or Your First Teaching License

The Post BA licensure program ONLY begins each fall. Students have in-state or out-of-state placement options. The year-long experience begins each August with the first course on the Western campus. After completing this course, candidates will follow the K-12 school year calendar for the school in which they have accepted placement or a job, not the Western State College of Colorado calendar (i.e., begin the year on the day that new teachers report to work, take K-12 school holidays, participate in K-12 school professional opportunities, end the last day that teachers are required to report for work for the school year, etc). This schedule extends from approximately the first of August through the first part of June.

The other education courses in the program are offered online throughout the year. The internship is in K-12 classrooms a minimum of 24 hours per week with experienced mentor teachers in the same content area in which the intern is seeking licensure or the candidate can be hired as the teacher of record. During this year-long experience, the candidate is applying and extending the pedagogical knowledge that he or she is learning in the Education courses.

Program Admission Requirements – Fall 2010

More admissions requirements may be added for August 2010 enrollment.

The following program admission requirements must be met by July 2010 to begin the program in August of 2010.

  1. Hold a minimum of a bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution
  2. If this is YOUR FIRST teaching license complete the Alternative license application and fingerprint background check with the Colorado Department of Education
    The application and fingerprint requirements can be found on the CDE website at: http://www.cde.state.co.us/cdeprof/Licensure_fngrprnt.asp?app=alt

 

Complete ALL content course work by July 2010. You can have CDE evaluate your transcripts for content knowledge or Western State College staff. CDE makes the final decision regarding course work needed by a candidate; however, they take up to 16 weeks to evaluate your transcripts for content knowledge. Therefore, it is strongly suggested that you have Western State College staff evaluate your transcripts for content knowledge, because if you are missing any content courses you will need to get enrolled in them and have them on a transcript by July of 2010. NOTE: Candidates seeking a Special Education endorsement will use the ELEMENTARY content evaluation sheet from this website and NOT the Special Education content evaluation sheet

Candidates wanting to obtain THEIR FIRST TEACHING LICENSE OR ADD a SECOND or SUBSEQUENT ENDORSEMENT are required to complete the content courses that can be found on the following website, before admission to the program. Once on the site, scroll down and click on the licensure endorsement area that you want to add to view the needed content courses: http://www.cde.state.co.us/cdeprof/Licensure_addendorsment_info.asp

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3. Everyone must complete the appropriate statewide content assessment if it is their first teaching license or if they are adding an endorsement to a current teaching license (PLACE or PRAXIS II). A content assessment exam must be passed BEFORE you can begin the program.

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