Course Credit

TeacherLine courses offer the following options for re-certification and graduate credit:

IMPORTANT:

• Be sure to follow through on any noted responsibilities for securing the applicable credit, including verifying the value of the credit, as it applies to your personal objective, with your district or state department of certification.
• It is important that you notify TeacherLine Southeast of the credit option you choose for each course you participate in, even if your choice is no credit. We will ask you for this information after your course begins.
  

Credit Options:

• SC Renewal Credit
• SC PACE Credit
• GA PLU Credit
• NC CEU Credit
• Graduate Credit
• No Credit

SC Renewal Credits:

30 hour courses = 2 recertification hours or 40 renewal credits ($199)
15 hour courses = 1 recertification hour or 20 renewal credits ($169)
45 hour courses = 3 recertification hours or 60 renewal credits (price varies)

The state department of education has pre-approved all 15hr, 30hr and 45hr TeacherLine courses for professional development, however we encourage you to get pre-approval from your district or the state office to be sure your individual needs are met.

Upon your successful completion of the course, we will send you an "Official Documentation for Completion SDE Approved Recertification Course" certificate that you are then responsible for submitting to your district/state agency.

If you have questions for the State Department of Education, Division of Teacher Quality, you can reach them at 803-734-8466 in the Columbia area or 877-885-5280 elsewhere; calls are only accepted between the hours of 1:30 P.M. and 4:30 P.M., Monday - Friday. You can also visit their website at http://www.scteachers.org/cert/recert/rc_index.cfm.

Several SC schools/districts are currently or have previously funded TeacherLine courses for their teachers.

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SC PACE Credit:

The following TeacherLine courses have been pre-approved for PACE credit by the South Carolina Department of Education. Each of these courses is a 45hr instruction course and must be taken for 3 hours of graduate credit in order to qualify for PACE.

• RDLA152
  An Introduction to Underlying Principles and Research for Effective Literacy Instruction (Grades K-8)
  
  
• SCIE510
  Teaching Middle School Life Science (Grades 5-8)
  
  
• SCIE520
  Teaching High School Biology (Grades 9-12)
  
  
• SCIE540
  Teaching Middle School Physical Science (Grades 5-8)
  
  
• SCIE550
  Teaching High School Physical Science (Grades 9-12)

If you have any concerns about taking these courses for PACE credit, please contact Falicia Harvey, Ph.D., Coordinator of Alternative Certification, at 803-734-5858.

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GA PLU Credits:

30 hour courses = 3 PLUs ($199)
15 hour courses = 1 PLU ($169)
45 hour courses = 4 PLUs (price varies)

The state department of education has pre-approved all 15hr, 30hr and 45hr TeacherLine courses for professional development, however we encourage you to get pre-approval from your district or the state office to be sure your individual needs are met. Download the Application for Professional Learning Unit Credit Prior Approval Form (as a Word document or view as HTML page) and complete and submit it to your district.

Upon your successful completion of the course, we will send you the Professional Learning Unit Course Completion Form that you are then responsible for completing and submitting to your district/state agency.

If you have questions for the GA Professional Standards Commission, visit their website at http://www.gapsc.com/TeacherCertification.asp or call (404) 232-2500; outside the Metro Atlanta area (Georgia only), you may call (800) 869-7775.

View our GA partners here.

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NC CEU Credits:

30 hour courses = 3 CEU credits ($199)
15 hour courses = 1.5 CEU credits ($169)
45 hour courses = 4.5 CEU credits (price varies)

More than 70 NC districts have pre-approved Teacherline courses for professional development CEU credit, however we advise you to get pre-approval from your LEA/district to use this course for re-certification credit to be sure your individual needs are met; your LEA/district will advise you of the steps necessary.

If you have questions regarding certificate renewal in NC, please visit http://www.ncpublicschools.org/licensure/forms.html or call 1-800-577-7994.

The following courses qualify for reading credits for certificate renewal:
(Early Reading First Schools: check your guidelines.)

• An Introduction to Underlying Principles and Research for Effective Literacy Instruction
• Early Literacy Learning I
• Early Literacy Learning II
• Facilitating Oral Language Development
• Integrating the Internet into the K-2 Language Arts Curriculum
• Teaching Narrative and Expository Comprehension
• Teaching Phonemic Awareness and Phonics
• Teaching Phonics and Spelling for Beginning and Transitional Readers
• Teaching Phonics and Spelling for Emergent Readers
• Teaching Reading Fluency
• Teaching Reading in Mathematics
• Teaching Reading in Science
• Teaching Reading in the Content Areas
• Teaching Vocabulary: Word Meanings and Word Knowledge
  

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Graduate Credit:

30 hour courses = 2 graduate credits
15 hour courses = 1 graduate credit
45 hour courses = 3 graduate credits

PBS TeacherLine has made the following arrangements (both institutions are fully accredited):

• Adams State College in Colorado has approved the courses for professional development graduate credit for $65 per credit hour, 1-800-548-6679.
  
  • 30 hour courses = 2 graduate credits ($130)
  • 15 hour courses = 1 graduate credit ($65)
  • 45 hour courses = 3 graduate credits ($195)
    
    
• Indiana University has approved the courses for professional development graduate credit for $241.30 per credit hour.
  • 30 hour courses = 2 graduate credits ($482.60)
  • 15 hour courses = 1 graduate credit ($241.30)
  • 45 hour courses = 3 graduate credits ($723.90)

Additional information about graduate credit is available at the PBS TeacherLine web site.

Notes:

• In GA and NC, please contact your district and/or state agency for any additional requirements or graduate credit concerns.
  
  
• In SC, if you are working towards your Master's +30, you need to check with the state certification office to make sure 21 of your hours are in your content/certification area. Remember that all +18 and +30 course work must be completed within 7 years from the start of the course work. You can reach the State Department of Education, Division of Teacher Quality at 803-734-8466 in the Columbia area or 877-885-5280 elsewhere; calls are only accepted between the hours of 1:30 P.M. and 4:30 P.M., Monday - Friday. You can also visit their website at http://www.scteachers.org/cert/recert/rc_index.cfm.

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