Applicants must also offer (a) or (b) or (c):
(a) New York State Initial Certification in teaching English for grades 7-12, or courses in education that meet the New York State standards for the pedagogical core. These courses include study of the following: history of education and philosophy of education or principles of education or educational sociology, educational psychology or developmental psychology or psychology of adolescence or adolescent development, classroom management, teaching students with special needs and English language learners, 6 credits in literacy and language acquisition, curriculum development and methods of assessing student learning, uses of technology in the classroom, methods of teaching English at appropriate age levels, 100 hours of fieldwork, 300 hours or 40 full days of student teaching English at appropriate grade levels, or one year of full-time teaching English at appropriate grade levels, and passagae of edTPA.
(b) an undergraduate degree with a major in English, or appropriate coursework in English,
(c) an undergraduate major in English, the Content Specialty Test CST, an approved 200 hours preparation program and a position at an approved public school through which students can accrue on-the-job training to substitute for student teaching.
Applicants must have a minimum undergraduate grade point average of 3.00.
International applicants for whom English is a second language are required to pass the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) with a score of 650 on the paper-based test or 280 on the computer-based test or 114 on the internet-based test, before being considered for admission.