Major requirements
Full admission into the middle grades education major is based on:
- Formal application to the School of Education when enrolled in EDUC 2145
- An overall GPA of 2.5
- Completion of Professional Blocks 1 and 2
- Positive recommendations from School of Education Faculty
- Approval by the Teacher Education Screening Committee
The appropriate content area test must be passed prior to student teaching. Candidates must pass the edTPA prior to licensure.
All professional education and content-area coursework that forms part of an application for licensure, endorsement, or approval that is received by ISBE on or after February 1, 2012, must have been passed with a grade no lower than C or equivalent in order to be counted toward fulfillment of the applicable requirements.
This program is designed for teacher education candidates who are planning to teach in the middle grades (grade 5-8) in one of the following content areas: Literacy, Mathematics, Science, or Social Science. A candidate successfully completing a program within the selected Content Pathway would be eligible to obtain an Illinois Professional Educator License endorsed in grades 5-8 in that content area.
Course requirements
The curriculum sequence is sequenced in six professional blocks:
Professional Block 1: EDUC 2120, EDUC 2140
Professional Block 2: EDUC 2130, EDUC 2145
Professional Block 3; EDUC 3011, EDUC 3015, EDUC 3430, EDUC 3510
Professional Block 4: EDUC 3130, EDUC 3315 (Math, Science, Social Science), EDUC 3357, EDUC 3510
Professional Block 5: EDUC 3310 and EDUC 3356 (Literacy Pathway); EDUC 3380 and EDUC 3381 (Math Pathway); EDUC 3230 and EDUC 3231 (Science Pathway); EDUC 3240 and EDUC 3241 (Social Science Pathway), EDUC 3520
Professional Block 6: EDUC 4130, EDUC 4600
Candidates who complete the requirements for a middle grades program and endorsement will need to choose and complete 18-24 semester hours in content-area coursework for one or more of the following content areas.
All Middle Grades Education candidates should meet with an advisor in the School of Education to determine the correct sequence of courses that will satisfy the content course requirements of their chosen Content Pathway.
Transfer and license-only candidates should consult with School of Education faculty and advisors to ensure that courses taken at other colleges and universities satisfy Illinois requirements for licensure within each Content Pathway.