The New Jersey Department of Education requires a 2.75 to be admitted into this program.  Less than that, but at least a 2.5?  There is a Flexibility Rule, but you have to do VERY WELL* on the Praxis II test.

[*Very well is defined as 110% of the passing score.  For example: if the passing score is 150 for your specific test, then to use the flexibility rule to over-ride a poor GPA, you would need 165 points on the Praxis II. This is the passing score plus 10% more or 150+15= 165.]

Your GPA* is the GPA that you had on the day of your graduation from a completed program.  You cannot take additional courses after graduation and have those courses bring up your GPA – unless those courses lead to a completed program (a graduate degree program, for example).

[*Your GPA is your GPA from a completed degree program. Generally that is your bachelor’s degree, but if you have a completed post-Bac program or a completed master’s program that GPA will count.]

You live in Atlantic County? Jan Howe, Atlantic County Office of Education, the local county branch of the New Jersey Department of Education can review your transcript and tell you what you may be missing as far as course work is concerned. 609-625-0004.

You live outside of Atlantic County?  Either go to your county office of education and ask for a review there or go directly to the New Jersey Department of Education in Trenton.

All your transcripts. 

Community college?

Undergraduate?

Graduate?

The Praxis Series,

Educational Testing Service, Box 6051

Princeton, NJ 08541

Online -  HUwww.ETS.org/praxisU

Make sure that you have the scores sent directly to the Dept of Ed to make sure that you do not delay the issuance of your certificate

NEW – online

The Department of Education's Office of Licensure and Credentials switched over to a paperless application system effective May 1, 2009.UH

You will have to send your official transcripts (in sealed envelopes to the N.J.D.O.E.  -  even with the “paperless” application)

NEW

Precertification 

Course Requirement

for subject matter certification?

FOR HIGH SCHOOL & SUBJECT MATTER CERTIFICATIONS ONLY

You will be required to take an additional   pre-certification 24 hour class before you can get the certificate of eligibility.

This is IN ADDITION TO the 200 hours already required.  These will be given at Stockton’s ETTC in Mays Landing on Saturdays. You can register electronically at HUwww.ettc.netUH.

NEW

1. Precertification 

Course Requirement

&

 2. Additional Content Requirements for an elementary or middle school certification.

FOR ELEM & MIDDLE SCHOOL ONLY

You will be required to take an additional   pre-certification 24 hour class. (See directly above - this is the same class for elementary and middle school and for high school and subject matter specialties.)

This is IN ADDITION TO the 200 hours already required.   These will be given at Stockton’s ETTC in Mays Landing on Saturdays. You can register electronically at HUwww.ettc.netUH 

AND,

You will also be required to take an additional 90 hours of instruction: 45 in Language Arts and 45 in Mathematics in order to be certified as an elementary or middle school teacher.  These math and language arts classes will be offered at Stockton in the academic year 2010-2011. More info to follow. This is in addition to the 200 hours already required and the 24 hour pre-certification class.  

This means that for an elementary or middle school teacher to be certified through the alternate route that he/she will need a total of 314 hours of on-the-job-training classes for certification:

1. 24 hours for the precertification class

2. 200 hours for the teacher training

3. 45 hours in math and 45 hours in LA = 314

Once you have applied to the state, passed the Praxis II, sbumitted your transcripts, and taken the precertification class, you will receive a CE.

This is a certificate of eligibility and you are then eligible to be hired by a public school district.

It will take 12+ weeks for your application to be processed; be patient.

Check application status with your SSN

Your district will register you as an alternate route candidate with the New Jersey Department of Education – you do not do this, the school does.

Your district will assign a certified teacher to you as a mentor.  This is also a state requirement for certification

Three phases (these are the alt route on-the-job-training-classes) will be given at different Stockton Centers.  You will be assigned a center by the New Jersey Department of Education, once your district registers you as an alternate route teacher with the department of education.  You may or may not wind up at a Stockton Center.  It will depend upon where your new teaching job is.