Minimum Grade Requirements
Undergraduates
If teacher candidates below a C in either of the pedagogy courses or in the student teaching seminar, then the teacher candidate must repeat the course and earn a satisfactory grade before he or she will be permitted to advance to the next course in the professional education sequence. Teacher candidates must also earn a C or better in all other required education courses and an overall minimum GPA of 3.0 to qualify for student teaching. Exceptions are at the discretion of the program director. Some programs have more stringent requirements concerning GPA and/or grades in specific courses. Please consult with the program director for full information.
Graduates
If teacher candidates earn less than a B in either of the pedagogy courses or in the student teaching seminar, then the teacher candidate must repeat the course and earn a satisfactory grade before he or she will be permitted to advance to the next course in the professional education sequence. Teacher candidates must also earn a B or better in all other required education courses in order to qualify for student teaching. All graduate students must achieve a minimum 3.0 overall GPA to qualify for student teaching, and some of the programs have more stringent requirements concerning GPA and/or grades in specific courses. Please consult with the program director for full information.
Accelerated Bachelor's/Master's
In addition to the Pedagogical course sequence requirement(s) as set forth in the section on minimum grades, teacher candidates must also earn a C or better in undergraduate education courses and an B or better in graduate education course in order to qualify for student teaching. (e.g. a BS/MAT student needs a C in PSY 327 and a B in CEE 565, regardless of official classification, graduate or undergraduate, of the student. For information about our five-year accelerated bachelor's/master's programs, please contact the program director for the certification program of your interest in order to obtain advisement on course requirements, and review the Bulletin.
All Students
All teacher candidates are assessed at the end of each semester using the Teacher Candidate Professional Development Form (TCPDF). Teacher candidates must achieve a minimum average score on the TCPDF (2.5 for Pedagogy/Methods I, 2.5 for Pedagogy/Methods II, and 3.0 for student teaching) in order to progress to the next course in the professional education sequence and graduate from the Candidates may have no more than three unmet standards in Pedagogy/Methods I, and no more than two in Pedagogy/Methods II. Candidates must meet all standards in order to graduate from student teaching. For any unmet standards, candidates may be required to engage in remedial work or to repeat the course as determined by the instructor and the program director, depending on the seriousness of the deficiencies noted. Since the methods course and field experience are so tightly interwoven, teacher candidates who do not earn a C or better (B or better for graduate students) or who do not satisfactorily complete the field experience requirements must repeat both courses.
Note: Under no circumstances will a teacher candidate be permitted to take Pedagogy/Methods I and Pedagogy/Methods II in the same semester.
Since the student teaching seminar and the two clinical practice experiences (student teaching in elementary (TESOL only)/middle and high schools) are so tightly interwoven, teacher candidates who do not earn a C or better (B or better for graduate students) for the seminar, or who do not earn an S for both clinical practice experiences must repeat both the seminar and the unsatisfactory clinical experience (s).
Candidates' progress through the program is also assessed via a number of other instruments, including the Lesson Evaluation Form (LEF), the Dispositions Assessment, the Disciplinary Standards Form (DSF), and the Teacher Candidate Work Sample for Student Learning (TCWSSL). Candidates reflect on their development and growth in concert with D-TALE themes and pathways, and demonstrate that they have satisfied D-TALE's Candidate Proficiencies and Dispositions. Candidates must perform satisfactorily on all of these assessments in order to advance and graduate from the teacher education program.
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