Secondary Education Program

The Secondary Education sequence leads to entitlement in eight secondary certification programs in the following subject areas:
 
 

Art	History
Biology	Mathematics
English	Music K-12
French	Physical Education
Health	Spanish

Students seeking secondary teacher certification declare an academic major and an "area of study" in secondary education.

For more information contact the Secondary Education Advisor in CLS 3089.
 

ACADEMIC MAJOR REQUIREMENTS:

    39 credit hours of university general education course work
    28 credit hours of professional education coursework
    16 credit hours of additional requirements for state certification
     additional course work to equal a minimum of 120 semester credit hours
 
 

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR STATE CERTIFICATION IN SECONDARY EDUCATION:

English 101	Writing I	3 credit hours
English 102	Writing II	3 credit hours
Spch-Comm 202 OR 101	Voice and Diction or Foundation of Communications	3 credit hours
Mathematics elective meeting University Math Competency Requirement		4 credit hours
HLED 107 or HLED 312		3 credit hours
TOTAL		16 CREDIT HOURS

 

PROFESSIONAL SEQUENCE IN SECONDARY EDUCATION:

STATE CERTIFICATION EXAMINATIONS:

Students seeking teacher certification are required by the state of Illinois to pass the Basic Skills and Subject Matter Knowledge tests.  Study guides and applications are available at http://www.isbe.net/  The Basic Skills test is required prior to declaring secondary education as an area of study, and is also required for College of Education admission.   The subject matter test must be passed prior to authorization for student teaching.  A third test, the Assessment of Professional Teaching, (APT) must be passed prior to receiving state certification.
 
 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION About Course Work:

• Only courses included on the Limited List of Courses during the term of enrollment (published in the Schedule of Classes) are applicable towards the General Education requirements.
• Continuing students who have successfully completed their General Education program prior to Fall 1993 will have satisfied the General Education Program requirements for graduation
• Continuing students who have not completed their General Education program prior to Fall 1993 will follow the revised General Education program requirements.
• Continuing students who have successfully passed General Education Courses prior to Fall 1993 can follow the revised General Education program requirements.
• Effective as of the Fall 1993 semester, newly admitted and readmitted undergraduates will be required to meet the revised General Education program requirements.
• The Pass/Fail option may not be used to meet any General Education requirements.
• A student may use no more than six (6) hours of "D" to meet the distribution area requirements.
• By the tenth week of the Fall and Spring semesters, faculty teaching General Education courses must notify any students with less than a "C" average of his/her grade in the course.
• All General Education requirements must be completed during the first 75 credit hours of course work.
• Majors in the Fine Arts, Humanities, Social/Behavioral Sciences, and Natural Sciences may waive up to six credit hours of General Education requirements in the corresponding distribution area.
• At the discretion of the major department, majors in the Natural Sciences may waive up to an additional six credit hours of General Education in the Natural Science distribution area.
• A student may use no more than two courses from any one area of study (including courses transferred to Northeastern) to meet the distribution requirements in Humanities, Natural Sciences, and Social/Behavioral Sciences.  No more than one course from any area of study (including transferred courses) may be used to meet the Fine Arts distribution requirements.
• For information about admission to the College of Education go to: http://www.neiu.edu/~edudept/
• All university general education requirements must be completed within 75 hours.  The pass/fail option may not be used for general education requirements.
• Students may use no more than six hours of "D" to meet the distribution area requirements in general education.
• Students who require developmental courses in reading or mathematics must take the indicated courses during their first 30 hours in residence.  Students who have not completed their development courses may not begin their major course work.
• A GPA of 2.75 in the professional sequence is required in order to student teach.  Professional courses may not be taken more than twice to achieve an acceptable grade.
• Student teaching is a full-day, five days a week schedule for 16 weeks.  All incompletes in a major or in the professional sequence must be changed to a grade prior to student teaching.

TO DECLARE A MAJOR IN SECONDARY EDUCATION CONTACT:

Classroom Building, CLS 3089
Phone:  (773)442-5387