Applicants must also offer (a) or (b):
(a) New York State Initial Certification in teaching Spanish 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 Spanish in grades 7-12, 100 hours of fieldwork, 40 full days or 300 hours of student teaching of Spanish in grades 7-12, or one year of full-time teaching Spanish at appropriate grade levels, and passage of edTPA.
(b) an undergraduate degree with a major in Spanish or appropriate course work in Spanish.
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 at least 550 on the paper-based test or 213 on the computer-based test or 79 on the internet-based test, before being considered for admission.