Teacher Education

TEACHER RECERTIFICATION

St. Johns River State College offers online recertification courses designed to meet state requirements for teachers seeking renewal of their Professional Teaching Certificate. Students must work with the Teacher Education Office, in conjunction with the Florida Department of Education (FDOE) and their school district’s personnel, to ensure that they have selected the appropriate courses for each certification specialization. Please contact the Teacher Education Office prior to submitting an application for more information.

Courses for Florida Teacher Certification Renewal:

EDF 4603: Critical Issues in Classroom Management, Ethics, Law, and Safety (3 Credits) - Valid for Recertification and Initial Certification
This course covers basic skills and knowledge for creating a safe environment that encourages learning, positive social interaction, and effective communication among students. The course emphasizes attitudes, language patterns, communication, values, and behaviors for eliciting and maintaining student learning as well as on-task behaviors. Included are methods and strategies for communicating and working safely and effectively with students, other school professionals, community members, and parents. The course examines public and private school law as it affects teachers’ legal rights and legal responsibilities to students. The course covers ethical issues relevant to teaching and the development of one’s personal professional ethics.

EDG 4343: Instructional Strategies (3 Credits) - Valid for Recertification and Initial Certification
This course will provide the guidance and tools to design, teach, and reflect on classroom lessons and units using instructional strategies as a process for making teaching decisions. This course provides a setting to discuss the challenges you will face in the classroom.

EDF 4444: Assessment of Learning and Behavior (3 Credits) - Valid for Recertification and Initial Certification
This course is designed to help teachers develop high quality assessment instruments for use in the classroom. Teachers will attain a knowledge of planning for assessment, testing validity and reliability, as well as distinguish the difference between norm referenced and criterion-referenced testing. Students will also learn to interpret student assessment data to identify gaps in student learning and measure student learning gains. The course will assist teachers in gaining the concepts and skills related to planning, development, administering, and interpreting assessments.

EDP 2002: Educational Psychology (3 Credits) - Valid for Recertification and Initial Certification
An introduction to the psychological principles of learning and the application of these principles in effective teaching. Course content includes the psychology of teaching and learning, learner behavior, growth and maturation, psychological concepts of learning, and cognitive and affective factors in learning.

RED 4342: Foundations of Research-Based Practices in Reading (3 Credits) - Valid for Recertification and Initial Certification
This course provides an understanding of the principles of scientifically based research as the foundation of comprehensive instruction. This course teaches assessment of literacy development, language structure and function and cognition of phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. Successful completion of this course will signify completion of Competencies 1 and 2 of the Florida Reading Endorsement.

TSL 3083: ESOL Issues and Strategies (3 Credits) - Valid for Recertification and Initial Certification
This course introduces instructional strategies for teaching students of limited English proficiency including instruction in the English language. The goal of this course is to develop the foundation of knowledge necessary to prepare educators to understand the concepts upon which second language acquisition are based in addition to the impact these concepts will have on instruction.

EEX 4034: Exceptional Learners in the Inclusive Classroom (3 Credits)- Valid for Recertification Only
This course is to introduce inclusive educators to the characteristics, evaluation and identification of students with exceptionalities. This course examines current issues, legislation, education reform, strategies and interventions in working with students with disabilities, as well as effective special education service models.