Catalog

Preliminary Multiple Subject Credential (Elementary School)

Dr. Robert Ferrera
Program Director
(650) 508-3531
rferrera@ndnu.edu

The Department of Education offers a program of professional preparation for the California Multiple Subject Credential, approved by the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing. This credential authorizes service in self-contained classrooms, usually in an elementary school setting. NDNU's Multiple Subject Credential Program is post-baccalaureate and requires a full fifth year, or 33 semester units, of study. The concurrent program at NDNU offers students the opportunity to complete the professional coursework and two student teaching experiences within a calendar year.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of a Preliminary Multiple Subject Credential:

  • Candidates will be able to engage and support all students in learning.
  • Candidates will be able to create and maintain effective environments for student learning.
  • Candidates will be able to understand and organize subject matter for student learning.
  • Candidates will be able to plan instruction and design learning experiences for all students.
  • Candidates will be able to assess student learning.
  • Candidates will be able to develop as professional educators.

Multiple Subject Credential (elementary) candidates spend one semester of student teaching at the primary level and one semester at the upper elementary grade level. These student teaching experiences are in culturally diverse schools with students from a variety of socioeconomic backgrounds, and take place at two of the many public school districts with which we have contracts.

School districts occasionally offer qualified Multiple Subject candidates the opportunity for a paid internship, in lieu of student teaching, provided that 120 hours of subject specific coursework has been completed.  Subject to Program Director approval, students may complete student teaching at a WASC-accredited private school.

Transfer students must complete a minimum of fifteen (15) semester units of credit at Notre Dame de Namur University, including at least one semester of student teaching in the teacher preparation program in order to be recommended for a teaching credential.

The following summarizes the requirements for the preliminary Multiple Subject Teaching Credential recommendation through NDNU. Asterisked items are required for advancement to student teaching or internship eligibility:

1. *Prerequisite: Verification of 40 Hours of Pre-Acceptance Field Experience by completing NDNU’s course, EDU2006 or by teaching or volunteer experience completed with appropriate age in a school setting. Provide the original form signed by the site supervisor or provide official letter of verification from the site. 
2. Successfully complete student teaching and required courses.
3. Pass the Performance Assessment for California Teachers (PACT), including a full teaching event in math and three content area tasks in literacy, science, and history‑social science (CAT).
4. *Passage of Basic Skills Requirement (e.g., CBEST or for more options, see: http://www.ctc.ca.gov/credentials/leaflets/cl667.pdf).
5. *Verification of Subject Matter Competence (e.g., CSET in Multiple Subjects).
6. *Verification of fingerprinting clearance on file with the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing (also called a “Certificate of Clearance”). For more information, see: http://www.ctc.ca.gov/credentials/leaflets/cl271.pdf.
7. *Copy of negative TB test result from within two years.
8. *Signed NDNU Release of Liability Form.
9. Verification of meeting the U.S. Constitution requirement by exam, coursework or CSU degree.
10. CPR training in infant, child, and adult; training must meet standards of American Heart Association or American Red Cross and be current at time of credential filing.
 11. Pass the Reading Instruction Competence Assessment (RICA) by the end of your program.

Required Courses     Units
   
EDU4100                    Psychological and Developmental Foundations      3
EDU4104                    Sociological and Multicultural Foundations         3
EDU4107                    Foundations for Teaching English Learners   3
EDU4110                    Special Education for the Classroom Teacher   2
EDU4113                    Technology Applications in Education   1
EDU4116                    Health Education 1
EDU4119*                  Assessment in the Classroom      2
EDU4330*                  Elementary Reading/Language Arts: Primary Grades    3
EDU4333*                  Elementary Reading/Language Arts: Upper Grades     3
EDU4336*                  Curriculum: - Elementary Math        2
EDU4339*                  Curriculum: - Social Studies/Science          2
EDU4342                    Student/Intern Teaching/Seminar – 1st semester    4
EDU4345                    Student/Intern Teaching/Seminar – 2nd semester     4
   
Total Unit Requirement     33

*These courses involve working directly with students in an approved classroom setting.  Therefore, concurrent enrollment in either EDU 4342 or EDU 4345 is required.
NDNU students enrolled in its credential programs may articulate up to 12 units toward a master’s degree. Candidates should contact the program director of the master’s degree of interest for more information.