About the Graduate Programs
About the Credential Candidates
As APU candidates prepare to work in schools as teachers, they must know and demonstrate the content, pedagogical, and professional knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary to help all candidates learn. The Department of Teacher Education assesses the candidates from admission through recommendation of credentials in these credential standards including dispositions. As a result, APU candidates are highly sought after because of the fulfillment of these professional standards.
- Candidates are expected to maintain a high level of professional and ethical behavior throughout the program. Failure to do so may result in expulsion from the program.
- All credential candidates must have access to technology. In addition, they must participate in an assessment system specified to them upon admission and pay a one-time assessment fee to cover costs of Summative Assessment and a two-year TaskStream account.
- All 2042 credential standards and requirements for multiple-subject, and single-subject are subject to CTC, NCATE, and federal policy changes, as well as graduate education policy. These supersede catalog descriptions of prior programs and requirements.
- The department reserves the right to change the admission process and requirements.
- Please refer to published general application requirements for credential programs.
Credential Analysts
Credential analysts are liaisons between graduate education candidates, school districts, and the CTC. They process requests for fingerprint clearance (Certificates of Clearance) and applications required to file for credentials with the CTC. For more information, please contact (626) 815-5346.
Track A - Traditional Candidates without Full-time Teaching Employment
The Multiple-Subject and Single-Subject Credential Programs contain a Track A specifically designed for the candidate who is not teaching full time in a K-12 school.
Track B - Teacher Candidates with Full-time Teaching Employment
The Multiple-Subject and Single-Subject Credential Programs contain a Track B specifically designed for the candidate who is teaching full time in an appropriate setting in a public or private K-12 school, verified and approved by the program director prior to course registration.
NOTE: Must be an appropriate setting as determined by the program director.
NOTE: In both Track A and Track B, candidates will complete the credential first, prior to deciding on a completion date for the master’s degree.
Additional Information about Bachelor’s Degrees
APU offers a number of CTC-approved subject-matter programs for candidates completing their bachelor degrees. The Department of Teacher Education collaborates with other departments that offer the Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies and the Bachelor of Arts in Human Development (Center for Adult and Professional Studies).
NOTE: Candidates with an incomplete bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 60 transferable units may qualify for APU’s human development bachelor’s degree completion program, an accelerated CTC-approved ESM program which prepares candidates for taking the CSET prior to admission to a Teaching Credential/Master of Arts in Education: Teaching Program. Please contact the Center for Adult and Professional Studies (CAPS) for more information at (626) 815-5301.
