Initial Certification P-12/Middle (EICK)

Program Contact: Dr. Christa Roney

(M. A. Degree) Thirty three Hours Required.

Candidates with a bachelor’s degree with a certifiable major aspiring to become a teacher in the middle school or P-12 setting should enroll in this program. Through this program candidates will develop knowledge, skills, and dispositions to be effective educators in their own classrooms.

Georgetown College offers the following middle school certifiable majors:  English, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies.

Georgetown College offers initial certification at the graduate level for the following (P-12) certifiable majors:  Art, Computer Information Systems, French, German, Health and Physical Education, Spanish, Instrumental Music, Vocal Music.

Candidates must complete 200 field placement hours prior to EDU536.

Candidates must complete 70 days of student teaching. If the candidate holds a temporary provisional teaching certificate and is the teacher of record in the area in which they are seeking certification they will complete 100 hours.

Candidates must pass the PLT Praxis and the respective content Praxis to be eligible for certification.