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Single Subject Credential CLAD/BCLAD Academic Program.
California Commission on Teacher Credentialing

How is the curriculum of the Single Subject Teaching Credential structured?

Once you are admitted to the Single Subject program, you will be placed at the Pre Professional Phase or Professional Phase. If you are in the Pre Professional Phase, you will receive advisement, take classes, and engage in other activities to complete the requirements for admission to the Professional Phase. 

The Traditional Student Teaching Pathway

If you enter the traditional, student teaching Professional Phase of the program, you will be placed 
in a school from 7:30-Noon every day from the beginning to the end of the normal K-12 school year. 
In addition, you will teach a full day (from 7:30-3:30) for five weeks during second semester. 
All single subject university classes are scheduled in the late afternoon/early evening. 

Each student is assigned to a CSUMB faculty advisor. In addition, when you are placed in schools, 
a university supervisor and a cooperating teacher will guide the development of your teaching skills. Also, if needed, the Academic Skills Achievement Program (ASAP) will help you with additional out-of-class assistance in the development of effective communications skills. 

The Internship Pathway and Internship Credential

If you have a teaching position with a local school district and meet all the admissions requirements, you will be assigned to the Professional Phase Internship Alternative, the California Teacher Internship Program (CTIP). In this case you will teach the classes assigned to you by contract. Your supervised teaching will take place within the classes you regularly teach.  All single subject university classes are scheduled in the late afternoon/early evening and summers to accommodate those with fulltime teaching obligations. 

There is a significant difference between having an Emergency Permit and an Internship Credential.  The most significant difference is that an Internship Credential is a teaching credential that is recognized as a professional certificate by districts statewide.  The reason for this recognition and higher status is that the person on an Internship Credential is receiving support to grow as a teacher.  The program in which the intern is enrolled signs assurances with the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing that the program will provide interns with the information and support they need to become fully credentialed. CSUMB takes this responsibility seriously and has created four support systems for teachers in CTIP. 
 

These four support systems are:
 

• Course Work
• A University Advisor
• A University Supervisor
• A Classroom Mentor/Support Provider

Also, if needed, the Academic Skills Achievement Program (ASAP) will help you with additional out-of-class assistance in the development of effective communications skills. 

At the time you enroll in the Internship Program, we will give you the materials to apply to the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CCTC) for an Internship Credential.  CTIP provides participants with the Single Subject Internship Credential with a Cross-cultural, Language, and Academic Development (CLAD) emphasis or Bilingual Cross-cultural Language, and Academic Development (BCLAD) emphasis.  Every student enrolled in CTIP teaches under an Internship Credential. 

This Internship Credential authorizes you to teach in a "single subject" classroom in grades 6-12. This includes almost all middle school and high school teaching positions as well as a few subject specialist positions in elementary classrooms.  This is a credential for students who have teaching positions in local Monterey-area school districts that have an internship agreement with CSUMB. 

With a CLAD or BCLAD emphasis, our single subject internship credential authorizes the intern to teach students of limited-English proficiency in addition to mainstream students.  The CLAD & BCLAD emphasis require additional coursework beyond the basic multiple subject credential. CTIP requires all our students to get either the CLAD or BCLAD emphasis credential. 

How long will it take to earn my credential?

You can earn your single subject credential in the equivalent of two consecutive semesters (or fifteen consecutive months part-time) if all academic and experiential prerequisites have been completed. This is called the Professional Phase of the program. The part-time CTIP alternative provides fulltime teachers with classroom support and courses that are completed in fifteen months. If you need to do more work to meet the Professional Phase requirements, you will enter the Pre Professional Phase during which you will receive advisement and access to university courses needed to meet the prerequisites. The Single Subject program works in cooperation with district pre-intern and new teacher programs to assist teachers on emergency credentials and waivers to meet the requirements for the CTIP alternative.