Community college teaching certificate

Certification courses and credits are ordinarily taken in addition to those required for any of the master’s degrees in the English Department. To be certified to teach in community colleges, students are encouraged to complete the Iowa State University Community College Teaching Certificate Program, a 12-credit program that includes the following courses:

• Higher Education 561: College Teaching (3 cr.)
• Higher Education 562: Curriculum Development in Colleges (3 cr.)
• Higher Education 582: The Comprehensive Community College (3 cr.)

In addition, an approved undergraduate or graduate human relations course taken at any university or area education agency (3 cr.) must be completed before certification is received. At Iowa State University, Secondary Education 406 (Multicultural Gender-Fair Education), Higher Education 570H (Diversity in Higher Education), and Curriculum and Instruction 506 (Multicultural Gender-Fair Education in Curriculum Development and Instruction) meet the requirement. Certain English courses (including English 544: Multicultural U.S. Literatures) have also been approved on a case-by-case basis as a substitute for the human relations requirement. Community college teaching certification is processed through the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, N243 Lagomarcino (294-1241; edldrshp@iastate.edu).

K-12 ESL endorsement

To add a K-12 endorsement in English as a Second Language, you must fulfill the certification requirements in a major subject area and complete the following required course work:

• Engl/Ling 219: Introduction to Linguistics
  OR
  Engl/Ling 511: Introduction to Linguistic Analysis
• Engl/Ling 220: Applied English Grammar (or test out)
• Engl/Ling 425: Second Language Learning and Teaching
  OR
  Engl/Ling 517: Second Language Acquisition

• Engl/Ling 514: Sociolinguistics
  OR
  CI 420/520: Bilingualism, Bilingual Education, and U.S. Mexican Youth

• Engl/Ling 518: Teaching English as a Second Language Methods and Materials
• Engl/Ling 524: Literacy: Issues and Methods for Nonnative Speakers of English
• Engl 588: Supervised Practicum in Teaching English as a Second Language

For further information, go to http://www.public.iastate.edu/~apling/k12endorsement.html#requirements or contact Roberta Vann, 335 Ross Hall, (515) 294-3577, rvann@iastate.edu.