FASTFACTS

  • The PC Teacher Education Program is accredited by the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP)and approved by the South Carolina State Department of Education.
  • Employer survey data indicate a high degree of satisfaction with the abilities of PC teacher graduates and programs.
  • Approximately 95 percent of PC educators remain in the teaching profession after three years, compared to the national average of 50%.

What You’ll Study as a Middle School Language Arts Major

As a middle school language arts major, you’ll take such courses as Middle School Philosophy and Organization, Adolescent Development, and Adolescent Literature to prepare you for instructing this age group.  You’ll also have the option of taking courses such as Film & American Culture, Appalachian Literature, and Women’s Literature.

You can observe real classroom settings before student teaching during the final semester of your senior year. You’ll do everything that is expected of a middle school language arts teacher, but you’ll have guidance too. You’ll meet regularly with your cooperating teacher and a faculty member in PC’s Department of Education.

As a capstone to the major, you conduct a comprehensive project or original research in middle school education. During this process, you will learn to read and interpret research articles, plan a research study, collect data, analyze data and present research findings to your peers, PC faculty, and your family. 

The middle school language arts education major prepares you for the licensing exam – required of all education majors – and for the real-world classroom.

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CO = Co-requisite
POI = Permissions of Instructor
PR = Pre-requisite
RE = Recommended
XL = Cross-listed

CAREER OUTCOMES

Middle school language arts teachers work in public, private, and charter schools. According to PayScale, the average salary of a middle school language arts teacher is $46,767. Those who go on to earn a graduate or doctoral degree also have the opportunity to teach at the college or university levels. 

Eighty-two percent of PC education graduates find employment as teachers upon graduation. PC education students are well-prepared for the national licensure examinations and experience a high pass rate. Our graduates are employed in rural, urban, and suburban areas across the United States and the world.

PC education majors become school teachers, principals, district office administrators, and school board members. PC education majors may choose to pursue careers outside the classroom. In recent years, some have gone on to become school counselors,  library media specialists, and college professors.

CAREER PROFESSIONS

FACULTY

Dr. Patricia Jones

Professor of Education & Director of Teacher Education

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Dr. Julia Wilkins

Associate Professor of Education

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