RIC offers certificate for middle-level ed.

PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island College has introduced a certificate of graduate studies in middle-level education.
Undertaken in response to a shortage of certified middle-grade teachers in Rhode Island, RIC’s Feinstein School of Education and Human Development is providing the new program, which meets the R.I. Department of Education’s middle-grades certification requirements.
RIC is the only public institution of higher learning in the state to meet this need at the post-baccalaureate level.
Initiated by professor John Niska, coordinator of RIC’s middle-level program, the new graduate certification will fill a gap in teacher education. Niska indicated that teachers of middle-grade students, typically age 10-15, need to be trained to work with early adolescents, and secondary or elementary teaching certificates are not adequate.
To enroll, students must have earned a bachelor’s degree along with either a secondary or an elementary teaching certificate, with at least 21 hours of designated coursework. They must also complete a Middle Grades Praxis Content Test. •

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