ADP and MAP Special Education Certification Requirements

Special Education Cert. Requirements (ADP quarter credits/MAP semester credits)

Areas of exceptionality: Mental Retardation, Serious Emotional Disability, or Learning Disability

In order for Prescott College to issue an Institutional Recommendation for teacher certification in Arizona, the following must be completed:

• Foundations of Education (5 quarter/3 semester credits)
• Learning Theories (5 quarter/3 semester credits)
• Curriculum Theory (4 quarter/3 semester credits)
• Curriculum Application (4 quarter/3 semester credits)
• Educating for the Future: Multicultural and Environmental Issues (5 quarter/3 semester credits)
• Reading: Methods and Practice (4 quarter/3 semester credits)
• Language Arts: Methods and Practice (4 quarter/3 semester credits)
• Social Science: Methods and Practice (4 quarter/3 semester credits)
• Science: Methods and Practice (4 quarter/3 semester credits)
• Math: Methods and Practice (4 quarter/3 semester credits)
• Characteristics of Exceptional Children: Special Education Foundations (5 quarter/3 semester credits)
• Characteristics of the Specific Exceptionality (5 quarter/3 semester credits)
• Classroom Management for Special Education (5 quarter/3 semester credits)
• Methods of Exceptionality (6 quarter/3 semester credits)
• Diagnosis and Evaluation (5 quarter/3 semester credits)
• Elective in Specific Exceptionality (6 quarter/3 semester credits)
• Student Teaching in Exceptionality (12 quarter/9 semester credits)
• Competency-Based Learning (1 quarter credit- ADP only)
• AEPA Professional Knowledge exam (or appropriate state exam)

• AEPA Content Knowledge exam (or appropriate state exam)

• Structured English Immersion (SEI): an Arizona State Board-approved course or training 45 hours / 3 semester credits for Provisional Certification; after three years of teaching, 90 hours / 6 semester credits for Full Certification. Required for all students regardless of residency.

The Arizona Department of Education also requires:

• Arizona Constitution - Department of Ed. exam, or equivalent course (within one year of initial teacher certification if teaching Social Studies/History/Government; within three years of initial teacher certification if not teaching Social Studies/ History/Government)
• U.S. Constitution - Department of Ed. exam, or equivalent course (within one year of initial teacher certification if teaching Social Studies/History/Government; within three years of initial teacher certification if not teaching Social Studies/ History/Government)

Updated February 14, 2008