2019-2020 TMI Information Guide

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Information Guide

each ississippi nstitute

Outreach and Continuing Education Post Office Box 1848

University, Mississippi 38677

662-915-7314 office 662-915-5138 fax tmi@olemiss.edu

Alternate General Information ........... 2 Alternate Route Required Tests ........... 5 TMI General Information .................. 7 TMI Program Costs & Financial Aid .... 9

TMI 1 Admission Requirements .......... 10 TMI 2 Admission & Information ......... 12 Dates & Application Information ........ 14 TMI 1 Application ............................ 16

Special Note for Spring 2020:

Due to COVID-19, testing has been suspended for Alternate Route. In order for the suspension to apply, a candidate must complete TMI 1 and have all materials to MDE to apply for the TMI 1 license by 12/31/2021. Candidates that complete TMI 1 prior to 12/31/21 will have until the TMI 1 license expires to complete TMI 2 and teach for one year (internship) in order to upgrade to the standard license, and will NOT be required to take the exams. In order to complete TMI 1, you must have either the hours in a subject area (page 7) or a passing Praxis Subject Assessment (from the list on page 6 if the candidate does not have the hours in any of the endorsement areas on page 7). In this brochure, text that does not apply because of the suspension will be marked-out (like this), with additional notes in this red font.

Alternate Route General Information

Selecting a Program: Overview of the Alternate Route From the Mississippi Department of Education website: OTL/OEL/Alternate

The Alternate Route is for teachers with a non-

cost and time commitment

teacher education bachelor degree from an accredited internship requirements

college/university. Currently there are four methods grade level

to obtaining certification through the Alternate Route. your personal academic skills and professional

The Alternate Route Teacher programs are listed

background

below:

4. Once you have successfully completed your testing

These are the steps you need to take for alternate

you must enroll in an alternate route program and

route certification:

complete the training or coursework required. You

1. Decide what subject and age level you want to teach. This decision will help you choose which

will then be ready for your initial alternate license and internship.

alternate route program will work for you.

5. The internship is your first full year of teaching at

2. All programs require testing:

an MDE accredited school (in TMI, that is concurrent

Twenty-one (21) ACT equivalent or achieve the nationally recommended passing score on the Praxis Core Academic Skills for Educators examination Suspended

Praxis II: Subject Assessment in the area you want

with your enrollment in TMI 2). Mentoring will be provided during the internship. You will be paid based on your bachelor's degree status as a first year teacher. The internship period will be provisional based upon successful completion of the school year.

to teach Suspended with hours in endorsement 6. Upon completion of the internship, you are ready

area

to apply for your five-year standard teaching license.

Each program offers specific subject areas

Note: Ther e is no alter nate r oute for Elementar y

3. You need to choose an alternate route program. Education K-3. You must complete an approved

Many candidates choose a program based on these program in Elementary Education K-3 to earn that

criteria:

endorsement on a license.

geographical location of the program

subject areas offered

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 Teach Mississippi Institute (TMI) ? This is the category that contains the TMI All Alternate Route

Online program. Two additional unrelated programs in the state also use the program types have the

name.

following requirements:

Master of Arts in Teaching Alternate Route (MAT) ? Twelve programs, each unrelated to the others

American Board for the Certification of Teacher Excellence (ABCTE) ? One program, though it requires additional third party interaction with a MAT program or other.

Testing Training program or

coursework Teaching internship

Selecting a Program: Overview of TMI

Teach Mississippi Institute (TMI) is an MDE-accredited alternate route program for college graduates seeking certification to teach in Mississippi (a full list of subject areas and grade levels is included in the Testing Requirements section). It is broken into two components, TMI 1 and TMI 2, both of which are taught online. TMI requires some comfort with online learning as well as self-motivation and inquisitiveness.

Available subjects and grade levels:

Required exams for licensure (Exams Suspended):

TMI accepts all K-12 Praxis Subject Assessments approved for initial Alternate Route certification: Art, Chinese, French, German, Health, Latin, Library/Media, Music, Physical Education, Spanish, and Special Education.

TMI accepts all 7-12 Praxis Subject Assessments approved for initial Alternate Route certification: Biology, Business Education, Chemistry, Economics, English, Family and Consumer Science, Marketing Education, Mathematics, Physics, Social Studies, and Speech Communications.

TMI cannot accept the 4-6 Elementary Education Praxis Subject Assessment. Only MAT programs may accept this Praxis.

Additional endorsements can be added to both the three-year license received after TMI 1 and the standard five-year license received after TMI 2. For more information on supplemental endorsements to a teacher license, visit:

To complete TMI 1 and receive a recommendation for a license requires passing scores on the Praxis Core examination -OR- an ACT composite score of 21. See Testing Requirements section of this brochure for additional information on Praxis or ACT.

To complete TMI 1 and receive a recommendation for a license also requires a Praxis Subject Assessment (formerly Praxis II) in a subject area you want to teach (or hours in one of the areas on page 7). The list of Praxis Exams TMI can accept along with the specific score requirements for each exam can be found in the Testing Requirements section on page 6.

TMI will conditionally admit a candidate without passing Praxis (or ACT) scores once, but scores are required for completion. This means you can be enrolled in TMI 1, though you can't complete TMI 1 and obtain a license without passing scores on the referenced exams. A candidate who does not provide passing scores within a preset time period after completing coursework will fail the program and is not allowed back in until all exams are completed, at which point TMI 1 coursework must be repeated.

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Alternate Route Program Types

Geographical, financial, and time commitments

from UM campus). You must teach a full

TMI coursework is done online; field experience is done at a nearby school you select (during COVID crisis, we have been utilizing online recordings of educators in action for field

academic year at an MDE accredited school in order to be eligible for the standard, renewable license. You must be enrolled in TMI 2 concurrent with your employment.

experience). Only the live seminars, two in each Salary information

component, require travel to specific locations on specific days (one in Oxford, one in Raymond, both events are on Saturdays, we do expect those to occur live in Fall 2021).

TMI Online is about 20 percent of the cost of the least expensive MAT program; it is a non-credit certification program so there are no graduate courses for which you will pay tuition. TMI 1 is $1,000 and TMI 2 is $1,500 (textbook is not included in this amount).

The salary scale is available at: OSF/TeacherSalarySchedule

Once you have received your five-year standard license, higher degrees will be recognized (master's degree = AA pay, specialist = AAA pay, doctorate = AAAA pay). You are also allowed to begin moving up the salary scale. Each year of teaching experience increases your salary. Your district has the option of accepting previous teaching experience, in-state or out-of-

TMI 1 (TMI 1) is not the shortest initial license

state, public or non-public, when setting your

program in the state. However, since two terms

position on the salary scale.

of each component are offered each year, it is

possible to complete both components and secure

the standard, renewable license more quickly with

TMI than with other programs. You should be

prepared to commit 6 to 8 hours per week to TMI.

Internship requirements

All alternate route programs require an internship. In TMI, the internship is associated with the full-time job you must secure in order to enroll in TMI 2. Any MDE-accredited public or private school is allowed (no limit on distance

Term July 2021 August 2021

Fall 2021 TMI 1 Terms

Application Due July 7, 2021

August 11, 2021

Background Due Orientation Seminar

End Date

July 16, 2021

July 24, 2021

October 18, 2021

August 20, 2021 August 28, 2021 November 22, 2021

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Alternate Route Required Tests

Exams are suspended. However, follow the directions below if you take an exam (for example, if you don't have the hours in an endorsement area on page 7, so you need one of the exams from page 6)

Praxis Attending Institution and

saved from the candidate's ETS account as a "locked

Designated Score Recipients

PDF." This score report is both the candidate's copy,

When registering for any Praxis exam, you will be and if emailed as a "locked PDF," can be used as an prompted to provide an attending institution (where official score report. Candidates should be sure they training is being done) and designated score recipients save the file as it will disappear from their ETS (where your Praxis score report should be sent). Enter account page after one year.

TMI Online's institutional code (1806) into both of

these sections. If you are taking a Praxis exam outside the state of Mississippi, you should include the

ACT Test

Mississippi Department of Education's institutional If you have a 21 composite score on the ACT, you are

code of (7599) in the designated score recipient

exempt from taking the Praxis Core. TMI Online can

section.

accept scores listed on an official high school

transcript (sent directly from the school) or official

Your score report will be posted to your "My Praxis electronic scores (ACT Code 1432). Official scores

Account" section of the Praxis website. The score must also be sent to the Mississippi Department of

report is made available to you in the form of a locked Education (ACT Code 9072). Sending ACT scores

PDF. Be sure to save the locked PDF score report

can be slow; so we advise sending scores to TMI and

before it is removed (TMI online can accept this file MDE during the application process to prevent delays

as an official score report).

in getting licensed. Please note that if scores are sent

by ACT to UM, TMI Online cannot access the scores

Praxis Testing Windows and Additional until the scores are entered into the UM campus

Attempts

management system (this can take up to six weeks), so

please use TMI code (1432) instead of the UM code.

The Praxis Core is given on a continuous basis. If the

testing center is open, it is offering the Praxis Core. If you prefer, you are allowed to attempt the ACT

The Praxis Subject Assessments (formerly Praxis II) is instead of taking the Praxis Core. You must take the

offered in testing windows. This means there are only ACT on a national test date (not a residual testing) and certain dates available to sign up for an exam. Visit you do not need to sign up for the Writing portion.

praxis/register/centers_dates to SAT score of 1060 (on the new 1600 point ERW+M

view testing window dates.

SAT) can be substituted for the ACT. The SAT has

The Praxis Core, or individual sections of the Praxis Core, can only be taken once every 21 days. The Praxis Subject Assessment can be taken only once in any single testing window.

changed twice in recent years (new concordance values reported by CollegeBoard in Spring 2016). Email tmi@olemiss.edu for directions on getting SAT scores to TMI Online and the MDE for a ruling if

you believe your scores may be good (for example,

the current 1060 score equates to about 980 on the old

Praxis Scores

1600 point SAT or about 1450 on the old 2400 point

Your test results become available 10-16 business

SAT).

days after a testing window closes (not 10-16 business

days after you take the exam). Score reports are

posted to candidates' ETS account first, normally

about a week before any institution (such as the MDE

or TMI) is permitted access. The score report can be

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