Meeting Info:  Tuesday and Wednesday / 1 day per week per each practicum (Practicum I and II are on Tuesdays, Practicum III is on Wednesdays)

Field Placement Requirements:  A student must be accepted in Teacher Education, have preservice certificate, pass ethics GACE, and complete 60 hours of field service (Practicum) in each of the grade bands: PK-1, 2-3, 4-5.

This program is in an MOU partnership with Southern Regional Tech.

Meeting Info: 2 weeknights per week during fall/spring and daytime classes in the summer

Field Placement Requirements:  Students must complete experiences in all grade bands: PK/K, 1-3, 4-5. All of the hours a student is in the classroom are counted as field hours. Thus, you get 650 hours minimum each of the four semesters they are in the program. 
Candidates get some of their 650 hours in the different grade bands each semester. For example, a para is assigned to a PK class, thus getting their PK grade band each semester. Each semester, the candidate will go to a 1-3 classroom. Then, the following semester, the candidate will go to a 4-5 classroom. Before student teaching, the candidate would have all grade bands complete and can stay in PK/K for all of their final year.  They also have to teach lessons in the other grade bands.

Meeting Info: Roughly 6 times per semester per course in the evening.

Field Placement Requirements: Flexibility to maintain your current paraprofessional position is allowed until the final student teaching semester  in place of practica; a portfolio must be submitted for the grade band currently working and students must identify activities and experiences in other grands to apply to field experiences.  For the final student teach semester, students are required to be in a general education classroom.  

Meeting Info: All coursework is offered online, providing the flexibility needed to balance professional responsibilities with academic growth.

Field Placement Requirements: Field placements are completed in required grade bands. Candidates may remain in their current paraprofessional position for the program. During the final semester, candidates must be in an elementary education general education classroom. Field placements include placement in a P-5 classroom, video observation and reflection using ATLAS.

Meeting Info: 2 days per week for face-to-face courses (generally TR)

Field Placement Requirements: Students must complete practicum experiences in each grade band:  P-2 (100 hours), 2-3 (100 hours), 4-5 (100 hours), in addition to their internship (600 hours)

Meeting Info: All coursework is offered online, providing the flexibility needed to balance professional responsibilities with academic growth.

Field Placement Requirements:  Candidates may satisfy one of the grade bands (Ages 0 - 2, Ages 3 - 4, Kindergarten) through their clinical experience placement. At least one of the additional grade bands may be satisfied through virtual field experiences, including video observations and analysis, as well as mixed reality simulation through the KSU AVATAR lab. KSU works with paraprofessionals to support candidates in utilizing their job setting for their clinical experience as appropriate for the field of certification sought. The KSU placement staff and program coordinator work collaboratively with the school and district to ensure a qualified collaborating teacher that can support and mentor candidates pursuing certification.  

Meeting Info: All coursework is offered online, providing the flexibility needed to balance professional responsibilities with academic growth.

Field Placement Requirements:  Candidates may satisfy one of the grade bands (P-K, 1-3, 4-5) through their clinical experience placement. At least one of the additional grade bands may be satisfied through virtual field experiences, including video observations and analysis, as well as mixed reality simulation through the KSU AVATAR lab. KSU works with paraprofessionals to support candidates in utilizing their job setting for their clinical experience as appropriate for the field of certification sought. The KSU placement staff and program coordinator work collaboratively with the school and district to ensure a qualified collaborating teacher that can support and mentor candidates pursuing certification.   

Meeting Info: Face to face classes are taught on the Macon campus, with a possible option of meeting on the Cochran campus.  Face-to-face courses occur:

• Junior Year:  Saturdays, twice per month
• Summer between Junior and Senior Year:  1 - 2 weekdays per week
• Senior Year:  Saturdays, twice per month, or two evenings per week virtually via Microsoft Teams

Synchronous online courses occur during the week.

Field Placement Requirements: Teacher Candidates must complete field experiences in the three grade bands: P-K, grades 1-3, and grades 4-5 and in both general education and special education. Students must complete 300 hours in special education and 600 hours in a general education classroom.

With the principal's support, the majority of field experiences may be completed in the school of employment. The field coordinator will work with closely with the principal and the teacher candidate to create an individualized plan for completing the required field experiences.
 

Meeting Info: 2-3 days per week, with meetings on weeknights or occasional Saturdays.  There is no online coursework in this program.

Field Placement Requirements: 30 Instructional Hours required for all grade bands (P-K, 1-3, 4-5, P-5 SPED).  Student Teaching must be completed in an area of certification (P-5 Gen Ed/Inclusion).

Meeting Info: All coursework is offered online, providing the flexibility needed to balance professional responsibilities with academic growth.

Field Placement Requirements: We work with our partner schools to ensure that teacher candidates who are paraprofessionals can complete all required grade bands according to the GaPSC rules. We do this on an individual level, and prior to acceptance into the paraprofessional-to-teacher cohort, our program coordinator works with the potential candidate and the school at which they are employed to ensure that the school can support candidates employed as paras in visiting/working with other classrooms across the school to meet grade band and general education/special education requirements.    

Meeting Info: All coursework is offered online, providing the flexibility needed to balance professional responsibilities with academic growth.

Field Placement Requirements: Paraprofessionals will complete their field experiences within their current job placements, as long as their classroom aligns with their certification area—general curriculum, adapted curriculum, or dual concentration. In addition to this hands-on experience, candidates will also complete 15 hours of classroom observation in each of the grade bands that match their certification focus (PreK–2, 3–5, 6–8, or 9–12). These additional observation hours are monitored by the department to ensure they meet program requirements.

Meeting Info: All coursework is offered online, providing the flexibility needed to balance professional responsibilities with academic growth.

Field Placement Requirements: We will work with your employing schools district to ensure you get all of the grade band requirements with the majority of the time likely to be in your current classroom.

Meeting Info:  Students can take general education coursework face-to-face (at the Summerville site) or online.  All major courses are taken online.

Field Placement Requirements:  Paraprofessionals in our program complete the majority of field experience hours in their place of employment - as long as they are a paraprofessional in a classroom that matches the certification they are seeking. Currently, 25 hours of field experience are required for each SPED course prior to student teaching. Candidates also complete 25 field experience hours in grade bands not represented at their place of employment either in a different school/setting/or online via ATLAS. Candidates are supervised in-person or online depending on the candidate's location and needs.   

Meeting Info:  2 - 3 days per week with classes beginning at 4:30pm (after the P-12 school work day).  Most students have a combination of face-to-face and 1 - 2 online courses each semester.

Field Placement Requirements:  Before the student teaching semester, paraprofessionals must complete an experience in each of the following grade level bands: K-2; 3-5; 6-9; and 9-12.   These are typically completed one grade level band per semester.  The rest of their field experience hours will be completed while working in their para position.  These hours are spread across three semesters of upper level coursework and are in multiple courses.  The number of hours varies by course and semester with 120 hours in the theory block of coursework,  90 hours in the methods block of coursework, and 90 hours in the reading block of coursework. Most of their field experience/practicum hours will be completed in their position as a paraprofessional which must be working with students who have mild and/or moderate disabilities who are participating in the general curriculum.

Meeting Information:

Select courses are offered in an accelerated 8-week format to accommodate the busy schedules of adult learners. All courses are offered online in an asynchronous format. Personalized learning support is provided through dedicated advisors, financial aid counselors, and mentors through the Office of Adult Learner Services.

Field Placement Requirements:

Once admitted, paraprofessionals may complete most of the internship and student teaching requirements in their current job setting. However, districts must agree to allow the paraprofessional to observe for 20 hours in a classroom setting outside of their grade band level during one semester.

Paraprofessionals will also have to teach 120 hours in Field Placement II and complete 400 hours of successful student teaching in their Student Teaching Internship Course. Both teaching experiences can be completed in the paraprofessional's job setting. Two additional field placements will be offered online during the summer semesters and are video based.

Meeting Info: 3 classes at night during weeknights; 2 classes on Saturday; Field course at work site

Field Placement Requirements: 

Junior Year:  288 hours, Job Embedded 
Senior Year: 768 hours, Job Embedded

(for paras this internship is job embedded/ support from principal) 

Meeting Info: All coursework is offered online, providing the flexibility needed to balance professional responsibilities with academic growth.

Field Placement Requirements: Candidates may remain in their current paraprofessional roles throughout most of the program.  They must produce a portfolio for the grade band they are currently working in and identify activities and experiences in other grade bands to apply to field experiences. During the final student teaching semester, candidates will need to be in a general education inclusion setting for the majority of the school day.

Meeting Info: All coursework is offered online, providing the flexibility needed to balance professional responsibilities with academic growth.

Field Placement Requirements: Field placements are completed in required grade bands. Candidates may remain in their current paraprofessional position for the program. During the final semester, candidates must be in a setting aligned with their certification field. Field placements include placement in a grades 4-8 classroom, video observation and reflection using ATLAS.

Meeting Info: All coursework is offered online, providing the flexibility needed to balance professional responsibilities with academic growth.

Field Placement Requirements: Special Education Online Undergraduate students will complete three practica (EDSE 4441E, 4442E, and 4443E) in a resource or collaborative/inclusive setting working with students with mild disabilities (i.e., LD, EBD, MIID) that have access to the General Curriculum. These experiences will occur across four grade bands within the P-12 certification field: P-2, 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12. Practicum supervision will be tailored to the needs of the individual student. This may involve video supervision, on-site supervision by a UGA supervisor, and/or a combination of both. During these observations, you will be expected to lead the class in a lesson. This may be in a small group setting or whole class setting, a decision that will be made with your cooperating teacher.  

Paraprofessionals in our program do have the opportunity to complete practicum experiences and assignments in their own classroom if the following requirements are met:

(1) The classroom in which they are assigned meets the requirements of what we consider to be an appropriate placement 
(2) Both their Mentor Teacher and Principal agree to and sign a Job Embedded Practicum Form 
(3) The student’s district approves of job-embedded practicum experiences

Meeting Info: All coursework is offered online, providing the flexibility needed to balance professional responsibilities with academic growth.

Field Placement Requirements: Paraprofessionals will complete their field experiences within their current job placements, as long as their classroom aligns with their certification area—general curriculum, adapted curriculum, or dual concentration. In addition to this hands-on experience, candidates will also complete 15 hours of classroom observation in each of the grade bands that match their certification focus (PreK–2, 3–5, 6–8, or 9–12). These additional observation hours are monitored by the department to ensure they meet program requirements. 

Meeting Info: All coursework is offered online, providing the flexibility needed to balance professional responsibilities with academic growth.

Field Placement Requirements: Field placements are completed in required grade bands. . During the final semester, candidates must be in an middle grades (4-8) classroom. Field placements include placement in a grades 4-8 classroom, video observation and reflection using ATLAS.
 

Meeting Info: 2 days per week for face-to-face courses (generally Tuesday/Thursday)

Field Placement Requirements: Students must complete 150 hours each semester in grades 6-8 in practicum courses, and 600 hours in their final semester internship.

Meeting Info: All coursework is offered online, providing the flexibility needed to balance professional responsibilities with academic growth.

Field Placement Requirements: We work with our partner schools to ensure that teacher candidates who are paraprofessionals can complete all required grade bands according to the GaPSC rules. We do this on an individual level, and our program coordinator meets with the pottential paraprofessional teacher candidates and the school at which they are employed to ensure that they will support candidates in visiting other classes to get their hours. The school of employment must be willing to work with the paraprofessional relative to ensuring both content areas can be covered and that the final internship is in the primary content area in order for the candidate to be accepted into the paraprofessional-to-teacher program. 

Meeting Info: Students have a combination of face-to-face and online courses each semester. Students must enroll in the orientation course their first semester in the program.

Field Placement Requirements: 600 hours are required. Most of their field experience/practicum hours will be completed in their position as a paraprofessional which must be in one of their concentration areas.

Meeting Info: All coursework is offered online, providing the flexibility needed to balance professional responsibilities with academic growth.

Field Placement Requirements: Candidates can work as a general education paraprofessional in a Pre-K4 through 5th-grade classroom throughout their time in the program. For final student teaching, the paraprofessional will be placed as a student teacher in their own classroom. Alternate grade band experiences are completed as half-day visits to other classrooms.

Meeting Info: All coursework is offered online, providing the flexibility needed to balance professional responsibilities with academic growth.

Field Placement Requirements: Candidates can work as a special education paraprofessional in a general curriculum (not adaptive) setting throughout their time in the program. For final student teaching, the paraprofessional will be placed as a student teacher in their own classroom. Alternate grade band experiences are completed as half-day visits to other classrooms.

Meeting Info: 2-3 nights per week (i.e., 2 nights F2F, 1 night online)

Field Placement Requirements: Practicum course(s) are 20 hour per week each semester. In the “Student Teaching” course, students must complete 40 hours per week covering all four grade bands (P-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12) on criteria set in coursework.

Meeting Info: All coursework is offered online, providing the flexibility needed to balance professional responsibilities with academic growth.

Field Placement Requirements: Grade bands include P-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12 – Candidates may satisfy one of the grade bands through their clinical experience placement. At least two of the additional grade bands may be satisfied through virtual field experiences, including video observations and analysis and mixed reality simulation through the KSU AVATAR lab. KSU works with paraprofessionals to support candidates in utilizing their job setting for their clinical experience as appropriate for the field of certification sought. The KSU placement staff and program coordinator work collaboratively with the school and district to ensure a qualified collaborating teacher that can support and mentor candidates pursuing certification. 
 

Meeting Info: All coursework is offered online, providing the flexibility needed to balance professional responsibilities with academic growth.

Field Placement Requirements: Grade bands include P-K, 1-3, 4-5 – Candidates may satisfy one of the grade bands through their clinical experience placement. At least one of the additional grade bands may be satisfied through virtual field experiences, including video observations and analysis, as well as mixed reality simulation through the KSU AVATAR lab. KSU works with paraprofessionals to support candidates in utilizing their job setting for their clinical experience as appropriate for the field of certification sought. The KSU placement staff and program coordinator work collaboratively with the school and district to ensure a qualified collaborating teacher that can support and mentor candidates pursuing certification.

Meeting Info: All coursework is offered online, providing the flexibility needed to balance professional responsibilities with academic growth.

Field Placement Requirements: 640 hours of clinical experience covering grade bands 6-8 and 9-12 (40 hours of pre-planning and 600 clinical hours). Paraprofessionals can complete one grade band in their job setting as long as they are employed in a classroom that meets the certification field they are seeking. The second grade band is met through a short field placement arranged by the KSU Placement Office in collaboration with the candidate, school, and district. In addition, candiates are required to complete a 10 hour field placement addressing the education of exceptional students. Paraprofessionals may meet this requirement in their own classrooms or, if that is not possible, will be placed in an appropriate classroom by the KSU Placement Office in collaboration with the candidate, school, and district.
 

Meeting Info: All coursework is offered online, providing the flexibility needed to balance professional responsibilities with academic growth.

Field Placement Requirements: 640 hours of clinical experience covering grade bands 6-8 and 9-12 (40 hours of pre-planning and 600 clinical hours). Paraprofessionals can complete one grade band in their job setting as long as they are employed in a classroom that meets the certification field they are seeking. The second grade band is met through a short field placement arranged by the KSU Placement Office in collaboration with the candidate, school, and district. In addition, candiates are required to complete a 10 hour field placement addressing the education of exceptional students. Paraprofessionals may meet this requirement in their own classrooms or, if that is not possible, will be placed in an appropriate classroom by the KSU Placement Office in collaboration with the candidate, school, and district.
 

Meeting Info: All coursework is offered online, providing the flexibility needed to balance professional responsibilities with academic growth.

Field Placement Requirements: With the principal's support, the majority of the field experiences may be completed in the classroom of employment.

Meeting Info: All coursework is offered online, providing the flexibility needed to balance professional responsibilities with academic growth.

Field Placement Requirements: Students enrolled in the online MAT program in either General Curriculum or Adapted Curriculum will complete experiences and activities at all four grade-bands (P-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12) required for Georgia certification. For all job-embedded candidates, the candidate’s workplace will serve as one grade band requirement (for some elementary level teachers, two grade bands could be met if the candidate is working with students within both the P-2 and the 3-5 grade bands). Additional grade bands will be met through video-based assignments, an alternate short-term official placement arranged through the program at a nearby school, and lastly, through an intensive reading interventions practicum course in the final summer of the four-semester program. All experiences have accompanying assignments embedded with practicum coursework. Students who are not currently teacher of record or a paraprofessional in a job-embedded setting will have placements at each grade level arranged through the program. 

Meeting Info: All coursework is offered online, providing the flexibility needed to balance professional responsibilities with academic growth.

Field Placement Requirements: Students enrolled in the online MAT program in either General Curriculum or Adapted Curriculum will complete experiences and activities at all four grade-bands (P-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12) required for Georgia certification. For all job-embedded candidates, the candidate’s workplace will serve as one grade band requirement (for some elementary level teachers, two grade bands could be met if the candidate is working with students within both the P-2 and the 3-5 grade bands). Additional grade bands will be met through video-based assignments, an alternate short-term official placement arranged through the program at a nearby school, and lastly, through an intensive reading interventions practicum course in the final summer of the four-semester program. All experiences have accompanying assignments embedded with practicum coursework. Students who are not currently teacher of record or a paraprofessional in a job-embedded setting will have placements at each grade level arranged through the program. 

Meeting Info: All coursework is offered online, providing the flexibility needed to balance professional responsibilities with academic growth.

Field Placement Requirements: Students enrolled in the online MAT program in either General Curriculum or Adapted Curriculum will complete experiences and activities at all four grade-bands (P-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12) required for Georgia certification. For all job-embedded candidates, the candidate’s workplace will serve as one grade band requirement (for some elementary level teachers, two grade bands could be met if the candidate is working with students within both the P-2 and the 3-5 grade bands). Additional grade bands will be met through video-based assignments, an alternate short-term official placement arranged through the program at a nearby school, and lastly, through an intensive reading interventions practicum course in the final summer of the four-semester program. All experiences have accompanying assignments embedded with practicum coursework. Students who are not currently teacher of record or a paraprofessional in a job-embedded setting will have placements at each grade level arranged through the program. 

Meeting Info: All coursework is offered online, providing the flexibility needed to balance professional responsibilities with academic growth.

Field Placement Requirements: Candidates employed as provisional special education teachers or paraprofessionals in Georgia public schools may complete the two field-based experiences in their current roles, provided the setting aligns with the certification area they are pursuing—general or adapted curriculum. The additional required observation hours across the grade bands may be satisfied in multiple formats including virtual field experiences. 
 

Meeting Info: All coursework is offered online, providing the flexibility needed to balance professional responsibilities with academic growth.

Field Placement Requirements: Paraprofessionals will complete two semesters of full-time field experiences within their current job placements provided the setting aligns with the certification area - elementary education (P-5) general education.  Candidates must also complete classroom observation hours in each of the required grade bands (PreK-K, 1–3, 4–5). These additional observation hours are monitored by the department to ensure they meet program requirements.