Multiple Subject Credential

Earn the credential you need to start teaching.

Let us help you in your professional development through robust faculty mentorship and collegial support. We’ll cover both practical and theoretical aspects of education to allow you to teach many types of learners across multiple education subjects. This certificate will allow to continue on your dedicated path to becoming the teacher you’ve always aspired to be.

This credentialing program is offered by AU Santa Barbara.

Program Overview

This is a stand-alone credential and meets California state requirements for the Preliminary Multiple Subject Credential. When you earn AUSB’s Multiple-Subject Preliminary Teaching Credential, you are authorized to teach in a self-contained K-12 classroom in California (typically at the elementary level), as well as in a core or team teaching atmosphere.

Degree Requirements

Requirements:

This program requires 78 units and can be completed in four quarters.

Course Sequence

Summer Quarter:

• Child Development and Learning
• Language Development & Acquisition
• Foundations of Social Justice Education
• Mediation & Conflict Resolution in Schools
• Foundations of Social Justice Education Lab
• Social and Legal Dimensions of Special Education
• Teaching and Accommodating Students with Disabilities
• Reading Instruction in the Elem School Classroom

Fall Quarter:

• Classroom Organization Theory & Practice
• Educational Technology
• Real World Mathematics
• Reading Instruction in the Elem School Classroom
• Field Practicum

Winter Quarter:

• The Arts and Culture in Learning
• Social Science and Children’s Experience
• Language Arts Curricula: Theory & Method
• Student Teaching with Professional Seminar I

Spring Quarter

• Science: Discovering Teaching, Action Learning
• Advocacy and Activity for Healthy Children
• Student Teaching with Professional Seminar II

For detailed curriculum, degree requirements, and course descriptions, please visit the AUSB Course catalog.

Admissions

Admissions requirements and process for teaching credential programs

Before You Enroll

• Take and pass the California Basic Educational Skills Test (CBEST). This test is required of all students in teacher preparation programs in California. Please review the registration deadlines and test dates as soon as possible, as the CBEST is offered a limited number of times each year. For more information about the CBEST, visit cbest.nesinc.com.
• Register for or have taken the CSET prior to enrollment. Passing the CSET is not an admissions requirement.
• Please note that all students who earn a California Preliminary Multiple Subject Teaching Credential MUST pass both the CBEST and CSET.

Cost

Please note: Additional fees for all AUSB programs may include (but are not necessarily limited to) charges for materials, late registration, enrollment maintenance, parking, graduation, transcripts, tuition payment plan, late payments, late registration, and returned checks.

Financial aid is not available for this program.

About the Credential

The Multiple Subject Credential authorizes the holder to teach in self-contained classrooms such as classroom settings in most elementary schools. However, a teacher authorized for multiple subject instruction may be assigned to teach in any self-contained classroom (preschool, K-12, or in classes organized primarily for adults). In addition, the holder of a Multiple Subject Teaching Credential may serve in a core or team teaching setting.

CCTC Approved

Antioch University Santa Barbara’s Teacher Credentialing programs are approved by the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CCTC/CTC), 1900 Capital Ave., Sacramento, CA 95811-4213; phone (916) 445-7254. All credential programs offered by Antioch University Santa Barbara are CCTC Approved Professional Preparation Programs. To view a report of recent pass rate assessment for our programs and other California institutions see (Reports, Appendix A of Report on Teacher Credentialing Programs): Annual Accreditation Report to the Commission on California Teacher Credentialing for the Academic Year 2015-2016. View: 2016-2017 State Exams Pass Report by Exam. View: 2016-2017 State Exams Pass Report by Title II Group