Pre-Certification Concentration in Art Education, (for UArts alumni only)
The Post-Baccalaureate Teacher Program, Professional Semester, is an intensive one-semester experience built around a 14-week student teaching practicum, in which the student devotes seven weeks to teaching at the elementary school level and seven weeks to teaching at the middle or secondary school level under the guidance and supervision of master teachers and Art Education Department faculty.
The Post-Baccalaureate Teacher Program, Professional Semester, is only available to University of the Arts/College of Art and Design students the semester following receipt of the bachelor’s degree, which must include all pre-certification requirements except AEDU 503 and AE 659. Students must also have a 3.0 GPA, have successfully completed the Instructional I Praxis Tests, and be recommended by the Art Education department. Students will not be allowed to do student teaching unless they have passed the Instructional I Praxis Tests: Reading, Writing Mathematics.
The Pre-Certification Concentration, when coupled with the Post- Baccalaureate Teacher Program, is accredited by the Pennsylvania Department of Education as an approved program to prepare students to receive the Instructional I Certificate to teach Art K-12.
Since June 1987, all applicants for certification in Pennsylvania must also take and pass all required tests in the PRAXIS Series, Professional Assessments for Beginning Teachers of the National Teachers Exam to qualify for the certificate.
Supplementary courses and activities complete the preparation of the future teacher to enter the profession.
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