With a change in certification requirements looming for Arizona’s kindergarten teachers, the education colleges at Arizona State University’s Polytechnic, Tempe and West campuses are collaborating to offer an online program enabling teachers to add an early childhood endorsement to their elementary education or special education teaching certificate while earning a master’s degree.

Starting in July 2009, teachers in public school pre-kindergarten and kindergarten settings must possess an early childhood certificate or endorsement to meet new Arizona Department of Education requirements. Currently, Arizona teachers with an elementary education certificate are eligible to teach kindergarten. That eligibility ends in July 2009 for those without an early childhood endorsement.

ASU is the only university in Arizona offering a program to address this situation for working teachers.

“Across urban and rural areas of the state, there are kindergarten teachers who will be ineligible to continue in their current positions unless they meet this new requirement,” says Mari Koerner, dean of the College of Teacher Education and Leadership. “ASU’s online program enables these teachers to stay on the job while they earn the early childhood endorsement.”

Read more here http://asunews.asu.edu/20080618_earlychildhood

NAU's 4th Annual Southwest Institute for Learning with Technology 2008 to be held on May 19-21, 2008. We would like to open up the Call for Proposals and Invitations to faculty at ASU. For further information please click the link below.

http://www2.nau.edu/~d-elearn/events/callForProposals.php?EVENT_ID=142

 

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