Certification and Licensure
Teach for America Partnership
Marquette's College of Education and Teach for America, an organization that recruits outstanding graduates from some of the country's best colleges and universities to teach for two years in challenging urban or rural schools, partnered in 2009.
Their goal is to eliminate educational inequity and prepare an expanding corps of exceptional educational leaders by providing courses toward elementary and secondary post-baccalaureate Wisconsin teacher licensure. Successful completion of the two-year program may also culminate with a master of education degree.
TFA participants assigned to teach in the Milwaukee area are eligible to apply to the MU/TFA partnership program. For more information, click here.
Elementary and Secondary Post-baccalaureate Certification and
Master of Education Course Sequences:
| Elementary Education Certification with M.Ed. | ||
|---|---|---|
| Timeline | Course | Credits |
| Summer 1 | TFA Institute | |
| Fall 1 | Child/Adolescent Development | 3 |
| Differentiation/Except Child | 3 | |
| Spring 1 | TFA Reading Methods I | 3 |
| TFA Math Methods I | 3 | |
| Summer 2 | Schooling in a Diverse Society | 3 |
| *Learning Theories | 3 | |
| Fall 2 | TFA Reading Methods II | 3 |
| TFA Math Methods II | 4 | |
| Spring 2 | Teaching in the Middle School | 4 |
| Integrated Methods: SS, Science, Fine Arts | 3 | |
| Summer 3 | *Analysis of Teaching | 3 |
| Total | 35 | |
Elementary education certification only: 29 credits
* Indicates master's-only courses
Secondary education certification only: 22 credits
*Indicates master's-only courses
