Post-Baccalaureate Teacher Licensure: World Language: Spanish 5–12

Learning Format

Hybrid

Types

Certificate/PBTL
Post-Baccalaureate Teacher Licensure: World Language: Spanish 5–12

Teach Spanish to middle and high school students

The World Language: Spanish 5–12 track prepares you for the Massachusetts Initial Teaching License in Spanish, grades 5 through 12. It's designed for people who already hold a bachelor's degree and have strong Spanish skills, whether from their studies, their work, or their family, and want to teach the language and its cultures.

You take the shared PBTL education core, a methods course for your subject with time in a real public school classroom, and finish with a full semester of student teaching.
 

Why choose World Language: Spanish 5–12?

  • You're fluent and want to share it. This license lets you teach Spanish language, literature, and culture in a classroom every day.
  • You want a wide grade range. The 5–12 license qualifies you to teach from grade 5 through high school.
  • You want to see the requirements up front. The subject areas FSU reviews for this license are listed below, so you can compare them with your transcript before you apply.
  • You already have a bachelor's degree. PBTL leads to your license without a second degree.
Program Requirements

Courses for this license

CourseTitle
EDIL 802Professional Preparation II: Special Needs and Educational Technology (fall only)
EDIL 827Secondary Methods with Field Study II: World Languages 5–12 (fall only)
Practicum ASecondary Professional Practicum A: World Languages Grades 5–12 (spring, mid-January to mid-March)
Practicum BSecondary Professional Practicum B: World Languages Grades 5–12 (spring, mid-March to mid-May)

Your methods courses and both practicum courses must be taken at FSU.

Subject-matter requirements
Massachusetts requires candidates for this license to hold a bachelor's degree and to demonstrate the depth and breadth of content knowledge needed to teach the state's World Languages Framework at proficiency levels from Novice Low through Superior, across all domains.

Faculty in the World Languages department review each applicant's transcript against the subject areas below, which FSU uses to assess that knowledge. Coursework completed at FSU or another institution may satisfy some or all of these areas, and the transcript review identifies any courses that remain.

RequirementFSU courses that meet it
LinguisticsOne linguistics course
Advanced Spanish composition and conversation (2 courses)SPAN 211 and SPAN 212 Advanced Spanish Composition and Conversation I and II
Spanish culture (2 courses)Two of SPAN 210, 225, 234, 333, 334, 382, 388, 400, 425, 426, 431, or 448
Spanish literature (2 courses)Two of SPAN 245, 341, 342, 375, 435, or 437

Plan to finish any subject-matter courses you still need before student teaching. Exceptions need your coordinator's approval.

Admissions Requirements

To apply, you'll need a bachelor's degree, a statement of purpose, and two recommendations. Your transcript is reviewed course by course for the subject-matter preparation this license requires. Full admissions detail, including how transcripts from outside the U.S. are handled, is on the Post-Baccalaureate Teacher Licensure (PBTL) program page.

Core Courses

Every student on this track takes:

  • EDIL 900 Field Study I in Education and Seminar (spring), or a waiver if you qualify
  • EDIL 910 Education Foundations
  • EDIL 920 Learning and Human Development

EDIL 910 and EDIL 920 are offered online three times a year. Take them before your methods courses, since they're prerequisites.

TESL 910 Sheltered English Immersion is recommended but not required for this license.

Field Experience

Field Study I is observation. Field Study II is part of your methods course, where you take on real teaching. Then comes a full-time, semester-long student teaching practicum. Already working in a school at this level? You can apply to use a semester of that job in place of the practicum.

Application details and deadlines are on the Field Placement & Licensure Information page.

Tests You Will Need

You do not need to pass the Massachusetts Tests for Educator Licensure (MTEL) to apply. You do need these before student teaching and before the state issues your license:

  • Communication and Literacy Skills
  • Spanish (28), for subject matter knowledge

For registration dates and preparation materials, see Field Placement & Licensure Information.

Meet your Coordinator

Kelly Matthews

Kelly Matthews, Ph.D.

Professor and Secondary Education Coordinator, English Department and Interdisciplinary Studies Advisor and Coordinator
(508) 626-4815
kmatthews@framingham.edu
May Hall

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