Steps to Becoming a Teacher
Students who wish to major or minor in education at Carthage, and complete the Teacher Education Program, must complete a series of steps during their four years at Carthage. The following pages outline the steps to becoming a teacher.
Education students should purchase the Carthage publication Steps to Becoming a Teacher from the Carthage Bookstore.
Program Checklist
Step 1: Getting Started
Developing Your Portfolio
Step 2: Teacher Education Program
Sample Schedules
Clinical Experience
Step 3: Student Teaching
Step 4: Certification Applications
Carthage Education Program Checklist
Freshman Year
- Declare your major/minor.
- Take and pass the PPST.
- Take Core sequence (must earn a grade of C or better in all Core courses).
- Take education foundations courses (EDUC 101, 105 or 201).
- Begin working on the portfolio.
- Begin dispositions review through designated classes.
Sophomore Year
- Continue working on your minor for elementary/major for secondary.
- Take the third education foundations course.
- Apply to the Teacher Education Program.
- Get three positive recommendations for the TEP application. (Two must be from education professors.)
- Continue working on the portfolio and complete EDUC 222.
- Continue with appropriate dispositions review through designated classes.
- Take other 200-level classes.
Junior Year
- Successfully complete the Praxis II subject area test(s) before student teaching application and have records on file with the education office.
- Continue adding to the portfolio to prepare for its review at the time of application to student teaching.
- Continue with appropriate dispositions review through designated classes.
- Attend mandatory student teaching meeting.
Senior Year
- Complete all pre-student teaching clinical requirements with report forms placed on file in the education office.
- Continue with appropriate dispositions review through designated classes.
- Complete application for student teaching and hand in by deadline.
- Sign up for a student teaching interview (dates and times will be announced).
- Hand in portfolio for review, due at the same time as student teaching application.
- Attend mandatory student teaching interview.
- Register for EDUC 430 (if in special education).
- Student teach.
- Revise portfolio with materials from student teaching.