A teaching credential from Vanguard University provides the training you need to help you fulfill your calling to the classroom.
Options
- Single Subject Teaching Credential for secondary teaching
- Multiple Subject Teaching Credential for elementary teaching
Program Length
May be completed in two semesters. Prerequisite coursework for the credential may require an additional semester of study.
Class Schedule
| Single Subject Students First Semester Tuesdays & Thursdays: 4 – 9 p.m. Three Fridays: 4 – 9 p.m. Three Saturdays: 9 a.m. – 4 p.m., Second Semester Wednesdays: 4 – 7 p.m. Teaching five days per week: 7:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. (approximately) |
Multiple Subject Students First Semester Mondays: 4 – 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays & Thursdays: 4 – 9 p.m. or 4:30 – 9:30 p.m., Second Semester Wednesdays: 4 – 7 p.m. Teaching five days per week: 7:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. (approximately) |
Prerequisites
- CBEST
- Subject Matter Competence:
- Single Subject Credential: approved coursework completed in your undergraduate major OR passing appropriate subject matter CSET exam
- Multiple Subject Credential: CSET
- POLS 155C – U.S. Constitution / U.S. Government
- EDUC 315 – Teaching in a Multicultural Setting with 30 hours multicultural fieldwork (3 units)*
- ANTH/ENGL/SPAN 453 – Language, Culture, and Linguistics (3 units)*
* Qualified candidates may be allowed to complete these courses as co-requisites.
Combined with Master of Arts in Education
Just twelve additional units (four classes) are required to complete a Master of Arts in Education. Combined Teaching Credential and MA may be completed in four semesters (two years). Prerequisite coursework for the credential may require an additional semester of study.
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At Vanguard, you get a lot of personal attention and support from your professors and classmates. I really value the camaraderie that formed among the students.
- Amanda Estrada, Fifth Grade Teacher
Newport-Mesa Unified School District
