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Multiple Subject Teaching Credential
Exceptional Admit:
If you do not meet one or more of the admission requirements, but believe that you have reason to be considered for admission, complete the Exceptional Admit Request form which is included in the application packet.
A minimum GPA of 3.00 in all education coursework must be maintained while in the MSCP. If you earn a grade lower than a “C”, you must retake the course before taking the next stage of courses. You will not be admitted to student teaching until your GPA is 3.00 or better. If your GPA in your education courses falls below a 3.00, you will be placed on Academic Probation, disqualified from the program, and/or will not be recommended for a credential. If you find yourself in this position, you will meet with Debbie Meadows, the Coordinator of the COC Multiple Subject Credential program. Debbie can be reached at dmeadows@csub.edu.
Teacher Performance Assessment or TPA:
SB 2042, signed by the Governor in 1998, requires all preliminary credential candidates to pass a Teaching Performance Assessment (TPA). Developed by the CCT, the TPA includes both formative and summative candidate assessment data. The data will assist a candidate to document the quality of their teaching and to focus on those aspects of teaching in which they need further support.
The TPA is comprised of four performance tasks that measure the thirteen Teaching Performance Expectations (TPEs), which describe what California teachers need to know and be able to do before receiving a Preliminary Credential. This vision of teaching is both complex and interactive, and so the assessment is necessarily multidimensional.
Task 1: Subject Specific Pedagogy:
The teacher candidates are given the opportunity to demonstrate knowledge of principles of developmentally appropriate pedagogy, of adaptation of content for students with exceptional needs and for English learners, and of specific pedagogical skills for subject matter instruction as well as interpretation and use of assessment.
Task 2: Analysis of Student Needs and Lesson Design: The teacher candidates are given the opportunity to demonstrate their ability to learn important details about a small group of learners and to design a lesson that is shaped by those contextual details.
Task 3: Assessment of Student Work and Lesson Design: The teacher candidates are given the opportunity to demonstrate their ability to design standards-based, developmentally appropriate student assessment activities in the context of a small group of students and a specific lesson. In addition, the candidates will demonstrate their ability to assess student learning and diagnose student needs from individual responses to the assessment activities.
Task 4: Lesson Design, Teaching Students, and Assessment of Student Work: The teacher candidates are given the opportunity to demonstrate their ability to design a standards-based lesson for a class of students, implement that lesson, making appropriate use of class time and instructional resources, meet the differing needs of individuals within the class, manage instruction and student interaction, assess student learning, and analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the lesson.
Professional Liability Insurance:
As of August 1, 2006, the CSU Chancellor’s office of Risk Management is requiring all students in various fields to purchase Professional Liability Insurance at the cost of $20 per academic year. This fee may be paid at the cashier’s window or online through Bannerweb.
Privacy of Personal Information-Confidential Records:
Students must abide by prescribed confidentiality and privacy guidelines including pupil’s records. such records and information are to be held in strictest confidence under the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act and the California Education Code and shall not be disclosed to third parties.
Honesty Policy:
There are certain forms of conduct that violate the university’s policy of academic integrity. ACADEMIC DISHONESTY (CHEATING) is a broad category of actions that use fraud and deception to improve a grade or obtain course credit. Academic dishonesty (cheating) is not limited to examination situations alone, but arises whenever students attempt to gain and unearned academic advantage. PLAGIARISM is a specific form of academic dishonesty (cheating) which consists of the misuse of published or unpublished works of another by claiming them as one’s own. Plagiarism may consist of handing in someone else’s work as one’s own, copying or purchasing a prewritten composition and claiming it as one’s own, using paragraphs, sentences, phrases, words, or ideas written by another without giving appropriate citation, or using data/or statistics compiled by another without giving appropriate citation. Another example of academic dishonesty (cheating) is the SUBMISSION OF THE SAME OR ESSENTIALLY THE SAME, paper or other assignment for credit in two different courses without receiving prior approval from the instructors of the affected courses.
Accommodations for Disabilities:
To request academic accommodations due to a disability, please contact the Office of Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD) as soon as possible. Their office is located in SA 140, and they may be reached at 661/654-3360 (voice), or 661/654-6288 (TDD). If you have an accommodations letter from the SSD office documenting that you have a disability, please present the letter to the program coordinator (Debbie Meadows dmeadows@csub.edu) and instructors at or before the start of classes so we can discuss the specific accommodations that you might need in the program.
When You Are Finished:
Upon successful completion of the multiple-subject credential program, candidates will be eligible to apply for their preliminary California 2042 credential.
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