Teacher Licensure
Licensure to teacher is granted by the South Carolina State Department of Education. To receive a license, a student must complete an approved degree program and be recommended by the School of Education.
The following requirements must be met before the School of Education recommends a student for licensure:
- Successful completion of clinical practice
- Receipt of PRAXIS II tests score reports (indicating qualifying scores have been met) submitted to the College of Charleston and SDE
- Successful completion of all course requirements and activities as described by the program of study
- Attendance at OSSC sessions and weekly seminars (including Clinical Practice Orientation)
- Successful completion of end of semester surveys and evaluations
- Degree posted on final transcript (verified and mailed to SDE by OSSC)
- Demonstration of professional and ethical behaviors considered necessary for successful teaching.
NOTE: Completion of approved programs does not automatically ensure a licensure recommendation by the School of Education. Although completion of the approved program of study will usually result in a recommendation, it may in fact be withheld as the result of failure to satisfactorily complete the requirements.
Recommendations for licensure may be withheld if a student does not adhere to the activities as described by the faculty review committee, for example, by:
- substandard performance during clinical practice, or
- failure to pass the PRAXIS exams, or
- failure to change behaviors which are considered to be impediments to successful teaching.
