Department of Teacher Education

Welcome to the Single Subject Program. This handbook will serve as an orientation to the credential program. It is our explicit hope that the information in this document will make the process of earning a credential as understandable and transparent as possible. It should be clear from the onset that, providing you complete all pre-program requirements, and providing you successfully complete both the coursework and the fieldwork in the SSCP, after 1 calendar year (i.e. 3 semesters) you will be eligible for a teaching credential. The type of credential you will earn is called a Preliminary Credential with a 2042 Authorization. This is a long way to say that your credential will reflect recent legislation in California as well as No Child Left Behind mandates. This credential replaces the CLAD certificate. In most cases, this credential qualifies you to teach 6-12 grades in your content area. It is also possible to earn a BCLAD authorization, which qualifies you to work in more intensive English Language Development classes in your content area.

The coursework in the SSCP involves a number of classes, each designed for two related purposes: to address a specific dimension of the teaching profession and to meet state standards for credentialing programs.

The Core Courses

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EDSC 4000 or 4100, 4300 and 4400

The Core Courses are designed to provide a consistent framework through which credential candidates can process the experiences of learning to teach. These courses address foundational aspects of teaching, such as educational philosophy, learning psychology, and curriculum theory as well as more practical dimensions of teaching such as student assessment, classroom management, and instructional planning. These courses are taught by the field center directors (in the case of field centers), cohort directors (in the case of night cohorts) and intern directors (in the case of internship program). The directors and coordinators are not only the main instructional presence in the program, but also serve as advisors, liaisons with schools and mentor teachers, and support credential candidates in many ways

Fieldwork Courses

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EDSC 4850 and 4855 or EDCS 4870 and 4875

The Fieldwork Courses are really not courses, but rather experiences in the schools. 4850 is the first semester of fieldwork and typically includes classroom observation, tutoring students in pull-out and classroom settings, work with English Language Learners and Resource students, and some full-classroom teaching. 4855 is the second semester and will involve student teaching for 2 classes under the guidance of mentor teachers and doing advanced observations and assistance in another class. You will be supervised by contracted professionals during all these field placements, as well as by your field center directors, instructors, and mentor teachers. 4870 and 4875 are courses for interns only and involve observations by contracted professionals as you fulfill your responsibilities as an employee of a school district.

Co-Requisite Courses

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EDSC 4110

(Multilingual Methods in Secondary Schools) offers methods and perspectives on facilitating English language development in addition to content knowledge.

EDSC 4115

(Reading and Writing in Content Areas) deals with methods for using literacy development to aid content acquisition as well as English language development. This course is also offered in Spanish for BCLAD credential candidates and is currently listed as EDSB 4115. In Spring 2006, this course will be listed at EDSC 4215.

EDSC 4500

(Secondary Education in a Global Society) addresses sustainability and global awareness, two foundational principles of the SSCP at CSU-Stanislaus.

EDIT 4170

(Education Technology Foundations) focuses on the use of various technologies in classroom instruction.

EDSE 4160

(Foundations of Special Education) centers on effective teaching of special populations in secondary schools.

HLTH 4215

(Seminar in Secondary School Health and Safety) examines a wide variety of health and safety issues that secondary teachers face in daily classroom instruction.

Program Models

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There are six distinct but closely related program models within the SSCP. The fall start field center model, the fall start night cohort, the spring start field center, the spring start night cohort, the Stockton program, and the Internship program. As noted above, each of these models leads you to the same 2042-authorized preliminary teaching credential, therefore the choice of which program you will work in is mostly a question of timing and preference. Each model will be explained in the following sections.

Fall Start Field Center

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Currently, there are fall start field centers in Manteca and Ceres. The basic premise of the field center is that one of the best places to learn to be a secondary teacher is in a secondary school. In these field centers, the “core courses”, namely EDSC 4100, 4300 and 4400 (Secondary Teaching I, II, and III) and EDSC 4850 and 4855 (Fall Practicum and Spring Student Teaching) are offered at the secondary school. This allows the field center directors to utilize the resources of the school (teachers, students, and facilities) and fosters a close connection between the credential candidates and the teachers and administrators with whom they will work. The objective in these field centers is to place credential candidates in the schools local to the field center, so the vast majority of credential candidates in the Manteca Field Center do their student teaching in Manteca Unified School District. The same holds true for Ceres and Ceres Unified School District. Typically, these school placements involve 3 hours of classroom observations/teaching every day. Credential candidates complete these three hours by 12:30 to allow for the core course, which typically meets two days a week, in the early afternoon. You can count on being on site from 8AM to 3PM five days a week.

Fall start field centers are organized so credential candidates go through the program as a cohort. Everyone in the field center is required to take the core courses as a group, and we encourage credential candidates to take the other essential courses in the SSCP in a suggested sequence. The chart below illustrated that suggestion

Fall Semseter	Winter Semseter	Spring Semseter
EDSC 4100	EDSC 4300	EDSC 4400
EDSC 4850	EDIT 4170	EDSC 4855
EDSC 4115		EDSC 4110
HLTH 4215		EDSC 4500
EDSE 4160

Fall Start Night Cohort

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In order to offer a more flexible schedule, you can also go through the SSCP taking classes mostly in the evenings. All courses are based on the CSU-Stanislaus campus in Turlock. School placements are more flexible and less limited by geography in the night cohort, so the schools and the times you participate in the observations/teaching vary considerably. You should count on spending about 3 hours every day in the school, and about 4 hours each week in the core courses.

Credential candidates in the night cohorts usually follow the suggested sequence of courses in the SSCP. That sequence, on the chart below, is designed to make the program as coherent as possible while enabling students to find the support and comradeship of a cohort of students engaged in the same experiences.

Summer	Fall	Spring
EDSC 4000	EDSC 4300	EDSC 4400
	EDSC 4850	EDSC 4855
	EDSC 4115	EDIT 4170
	EDSE 4160	EDSC 4110
	HLTH 4215	EDSC 4500

Stockton Program

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The SSCP is offering the entire program at the Stockton campus. The program begins in June 2005 and is completed by May 2006. Candidates may do traditional student teaching or an internship in the Stockton region. All coursework is in the evening at the Stockton campus. The courses are organized as modules; students take one course at a time for a period of 4-8 weeks, depending on the number of units in the course. The fieldwork courses (EDSC 4850 and 4855 or 4870 and 4875) are taken for an entire semester. If a student starts with Stockton, it is highly desirable for the student to complete the program and take all courses in Stockton. The sequence of courses below is an example of how the modular program will work for the 2005-2006 school year. The times and dates for each course are attached as an addendum to the handbook.

Summer 05	Fall 05	Winter 06	Spring 06
EDSC 4000	EDSC 4300	EDIT 4170	EDSC 4400
EDSC 4110	EDSC 4850 or EDSC 4870	HLTH 4215	EDSC 4855 or EDSC 4875
	EDSC 4115	EDSE 4160	EDSC 4500
	EDSC 3900*		EDSC 3900*
	BCLAD candidates should take EDSC 4500 instead of EDSC 4115		BCLAD candidates should take EDSC 4215 instead of EDSC 4500

*Please note: EDSC 3900 is a pre-requisite course to SSCP. It is taken once during the program.

Spring Start Field Center

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The spring start field center takes place in Modesto. The basic premise of the field center is that one of the best places to learn to be a secondary teacher is in a secondary school. In these field centers, the “core courses”, namely EDSC 4100, 4300 and 4400 (Secondary Teaching I, II, and III) and EDSC 4850 and 4855 (Spring Practicum and Fall Student Teaching) are offered at the secondary school. This allows the field center directors to utilize the resources of the school (teachers, students, and facilities) and fosters a close connection between the credential candidates and the teachers and administrators with whom they will work. Credential candidates in the spring start field center take their courses at a high school in Modesto, and are usually placed for both semesters of observation/teaching at one of the schools in Modesto. Typically, candidates spend 3 hours every day in observation/teaching experiences, and take the core courses in the afternoons. The suggested sequence for coursework in the SSCP for spring start credential candidates is as follows:

Spring	Fall	Winter
EDSC 4100	EDSC 4400	EDSC 4300
EDSC 4850	EDSC 4855	EDIT 4170
EDSC 4115	EDSC 4110
EDSE 4160	EDSC 4500
HLTH 4215

Spring Start Evening Cohort

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The Spring start evening cohort is designed to allow people to go through the SSCP while taking classes only at night. School placements are more flexible and less limited geographically. However, credential candidates are still expected to spend 3 hours every day in the schools in observation/teaching placements. The courses will all be held on the CSU-Stanislaus campus in Turlock. The suggested sequence of courses for the program is the same as the Spring Start field center (see chart above). The only difference is that the core courses (EDSC 4100, 4300 and 4400) are taught on campus rather than in a field center.

Intern Program

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Internships generally start in the Fall. Occasionally, a credential candidate in a Spring start cohort will receive an offer of employment from a school district. That student will continue with the Spring start cohort but become an intern on an Intern Credential. Interns must find their own position, although the Intern Director often assists with this process, and they must fulfill all state requirements for an Intern Credential. An Intern is a paid employee of a school district and the teacher of record in the classroom. Interns receive a great deal of support from a support provider from the school district, a university supervisor, and the interns in the cohort. Most internships involve full time teaching; a minimum of 3 periods per day is required of part-time interns. The suggested course sequence for Interns is as follows:

Summer	Fall	Spring
EDSC 4000	EDSC 4300	EDSC 4400
EDSC 4110	EDSC 4870	EDSC 4875
	EDSC 4115	EDSC 4500
	EDSE 4160	EDIT 4170
	HLTH 4215

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