Teacher Education Program – All students must apply for Provisional admission to TEP by the deadline of their first semester of enrollment and fulfill all TEP requirements before the end of that semester. You must have a 3.0 undergraduate gpa to be provisionally admitted to TEP. Full Admission to TEP occurs the semester before you do your clinical teaching semester and requires a 3.25 graduate GPA and all Praxis II exams passed, including the Principles of Learning and Teaching.
Licensure Exams- You will have multiple Praxis II exams to take to be fully licensed, check http://www.memphis.edu/tep/praxis.htm, click on Praxis and use pulldown menu to find TN required tests. Everyone must take a Principles of Learning and Teaching Praxis II Exam.
Capstone Degree and Licensure Requirement. All teacher candidates must complete ICL 7993 - Professional Seminar ** to be recommended for licensure and to be awarded the MAT degree. During ICL 7993 each candidate will complete a nationally scored teacher performance assessment called edTPA. Candidates must meet the minimum established score on the edTPA. Failure to do so will result in a delay in your licensure recommendation. If unsuccessful, the candidate is responsible for resubmitting his/her edTPA, including the cost. The edTPA replaces the Masters Project.
Candidates must complete all Level One and Level Two courses and must pass all required PRAXIS II exams including the PLT exam prior to enrolling in the ICL 7808 - Clinical Teaching Semester course and/or ICL 7993.
. All applicants who will be attending the University on a student visa and who are not native speakers of English and are not graduates of The University of Memphis must supply a minimum score of 550 on the paper, a 210 on the computer-based, or 79 on the internet based Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). The minimum acceptable IELTS score is 6.0.