NSU Catalog 2011-2012 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Paraprofessional Education
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(605) 626-2415
A cooperative program by Northern State University and Black Hills State University.
A major component of the No Child Left Behind act is that all teachers and paraprofessionals in K- 12 public classrooms must be “highly qualified”. An associate’s degree is one of the ways that a paraprofessional educator can meet the “highly qualified” requirements.
Northern State University and Black Hills State University have developed the Associate of Science in Paraprofessional Education to help paraprofessional educators meet the requirements of No Child Left Behind legislation.
The program consists of 64 semester credits of course work in required general education courses, education courses in classroom management, reading, child development, special education, and mathematics and electives in related academic content areas.
Courses are available on campus, by correspondence or through the Internet from South Dakota’s public universities. Students should review the course listings from the Electronic University Consortium (EUC) at www.hpcnet.org/euc for course enrollment information or contact individual university personnel regarding course schedules.
Suitable electives are courses in mathematics, science, language arts, English, education, early childhood, psychology, sociology, special education, social sciences, art, music and foreign language. Courses may be taken through the EUC or on individual campuses. A minimum grade point average of 2.0 is required for completion of the A.S. in Paraprofessional Education.
Students planning to complete a baccalaureate degree program for teacher certification must have a grade point average of 2.60 for admission to teacher education. Programs
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