Middle Grade Language Arts

Middle-Grade Language Arts

Any elementary teacher candidate applying for an initial Illinois Professional Educator License and seeking a subsequent middle-grade English Language Arts endorsement to be added to license will need to meet Illinois middle-grade English Language Arts requirements of

• 18 semester hours, including EDUC 214 Books for the Middle-School Reader, and a ENG 325 Methods of Teaching Middle-School English Language Arts
• pass the middle-level English Language Arts content exam. This is in-addition to the elementary or secondary content area test

Any English Language Arts course counted toward the middle-grade endorsement must have a final grade of C- or higher. 

SECONDARY EDUCATION

Secondary Education students who are also English majors will automatically receive the middle-grade English Language Arts endorsement as part of their program; however, they will need t pass the state middle-level English Language Arts content exam. 

 

 

Practica Options

• Elementary teacher candidates who already know by sophomore year that they are seeking the Middle-Grade English Language Arts Endorsement may request placement in a middle school for their 225L practicum.
• If not placed in a middle school for 225L, students have the option of taking the Middle-Grade Practicum 405L/507L or of student teaching in a middle-school to fulfill the requirements of the middle-grade English Language Arts endorsement.