Admission to Teacher Education

• Teacher Education Program Admission Checklist
• Admission and Licensure Background Checks

Teacher Education Program Admission Checklist

‼️ Please see the following link to access the PDF Program Admission Checklist: ⬇️

Undergraduate Teacher Education Program Admission Checklist

This checklist is to help undergraduate A-State Teacher Education students navigate the admissions process to the Teacher
Education Program through the Professional Education Programs (PEP) Office.

• Arkansas AELS Background Check
  o Background Check Packet can be found on the PEP website or you can email pep@astate.edu and request
  the packet.
  o This can take up to 4 weeks to approve, so it is recommended to start this first.
  o There are 2 parts: Central Registry (Child Maltreatment) and fingerprints (ASP and FBI)
• Educator Dispositions Self-Assessment (EDA)
  o This should be completed in your Intro to Education class, but if it is not, a blank EDA is included in the official PDF document above. ⬆️
• ArkansasIDEAS Ethics Certificate
  • o You must have already started the Background Check Process in order to make an ArkansasIDEAS
    account (these accounts are linked)
    o The course you need to complete for admissions is:
    • • • Professional Licensure Standards Board (PLSB) - The Code of Ethics Training Video (2018)
          Course # ERC1904
• Read the Arkansas Code of Ethics
• Technology Survey
• Online Application for Admission
  • You will upload your completed EDA and Ethics Certificate to this application
• Course/GPA Requirements
  o Students must have a minimum 2.70 GPA to be admitted
  o The following courses are required with a grade C or better:
  • • ENG 1003 Composition I
    • ENG 1013 Composition II
    • SCOM 1203 Oral Communication (or student must provide a Speech Proficiency if this course is
      not required in your degree)
    • MATH 1023 College Algebra/MATH 1043 Quantitative Reasoning/STAT 2003 Introduction to
      Statistics
    • Introduction to Education (specific to degree/department)
• Department Screening Interview
  o Students must schedule a personal interview with their Department Screening Committee.
  • • Please reach out to your respective Program Coordinator for this.
  • The Signature Verification Page must be filled out by the student before the interview and signed by the
    Department Chair after the interview.
  • The Signature Verification Page needs to be delivered to the PEP Office by the program coordinator or
    by the student themself
  • This is very important because it initiates the admission process in the PEP Office.
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Admission and Licensure Background Checks

‼️ Please follow the link below to the official Admission and Licensure Background Check PDF: ⬇️

Admission and Licensure Background Checks 

• For Teacher Education Program Admission
  • All candidates seeking admission to an initial licensure program must complete both parts of
    the background check process as a requirement for program admission. This process can take
    3-4 weeks to complete. Begin this process early so that it does not delay acceptance into the
    teacher education program.
• For Initial and Provisional Licenses
  • Provisional and initial licenses require an approved criminal history check (ASP & FBI) and
    Arkansas Child Maltreatment Central Registry check that is less than one year old.