Teaching - Program Details

1. Create your online application

2. Statement of Purpose

Your statement of purpose must be a clear and legible draft focusing on the specific guidelines of the program and the chosen emphasis you are applying for at the School of Education and Counseling Psychology. Your statement must include evidence of your commitment to Social Justice, Multiculturalism and Diversity. Please limit your statement to two pages – typed and double-spaced. You must not receive any assistance writing or editing the personal statement; it must be your own original work. Recall an experience you had working with children or youth in a formal, organized setting in the United States within the past 3 years. Provide a description of the experience (e.g., context, students, program, grade) and explain what aspects of this experience you found most engaging and/or meaningful. Additionally explain how this experience aligns with the mission of the department of education "...to prepare professionals of competence, conscience, and compassion who will promote the common good as they transform lives, schools, and communities."

3. Current Resume or CV

All applicants are required to submit a resumé or curriculum vitae to provide information about relevant job experience and education.  Your resumé should include educational background and relevant experiences, including jobs, internships, community service, activities, languages (if applicable), and research projects. Writing a resumé for a graduate school application follows the same principles as writing a resumé for a job. Please include dates of attendance for education, job titles and years of employment and explain any gaps in employment exceeding 6 months.

4. One copy of official transcripts from all post-secondary institutions attended

You must send one official transcript from each post-secondary institution that contributed to your Bachelor’s degree. Transcripts can be delivered by postal mail in a sealed envelope, or electronically by the school or other third-party service.

Transcripts delivered electronically must be delivered to the ECP Admissions Office at ecpadmissions@scu.edu.

Transcripts delivered by postal mail must be sent to:

Attn: Guadalupe Hall- ECP Admissions

Santa Clara University

455 El Camino Real

Santa Clara, CA 95050

Applicants with a Bachelor's degree from outside of the United States are required to have their official transcripts evaluated by a member of the National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES). Our preferred member is WES, ICAP version.  We require a course-by-course, cumulative GPA, and U.S. degree equivalency evaluation. If your Bachelor’s degree has not been conferred by the application deadline, you must submit a final official transcript demonstrating conferral of your degree to the Student Services department prior to enrolling in classes.

5. Two Letters of Recommendation

Letters of recommendation should be from individuals who have served in supervisory or evaluative roles with you.  This may include professors, instructors, bosses or managers, job supervisors, clinical supervisors, volunteer coordinators, supervisors of volunteer work, or similar.  Letters of recommendation should not be from personal friends, family members, or personal therapists. We realize that letters from such individuals may not be possible for some applicants.  If you will be requesting a letter from someone that does not fit these guidelines, please briefly explain why; the expectation is that the people writing letters for you should still be able to comment on your professional capacity as a practitioner.

Please note: MATTC applicants must have at least one letter of recommendation from a direct supervisor in a setting where they have worked with groups of youth.

6. Minimum of 30 hours working with groups of youth

MATTC applicants must demonstrate possession of recent (within the past 3 years), formal paid or unpaid experience working with groups of children or youth of the same age range as their intended area of teaching.

Individuals pursuing a multiple-subject preliminary teaching credential must possess at least 30 hours of experience working with youth between the ages of 5-14 years old.

Individuals pursuing a single-subject preliminary teaching credential must possess at least 30 hours of experience working with youth between the ages of 12-18 years old.

The following activities will NOT satisfy the expectations for admission to the MATTC program:

Teaching music, art, or dance lessons (unless you intend to pursue a K12 music, art, or physical education teaching credential);

Working as a babysitter, nanny, or daycare provider;

Working with your own children, their friends, or members of your family;

Providing one­-on-­one tutoring in any academic or non­academic subject area.

7. Minimum 3.0 Undergraduate GPA

Applicants are required to have a minimum 3.0 cumulative undergraduate GPA.

8. Basic Skills and Subject-Matter Competence Requirements (Only applies to 1-Year Summer Track and Intern Track Applicants)

Individuals applying for the Summer term (1-year MATTC program or the 2-year Intern track), must submit passing CBEST and CSET (multiple-subject or single-subject) scores, or evidence of the equivalent, by June 4, 2018.  Those who are unable to submit passing scores by the deadline will have the option to defer their admission to the Fall 2018 term and enroll in the two-year MATTC program.

MATTC applicants can upload CBEST test scores in PDF format through their online application portal. CSET test scores must be emailed in PDF format to the ECP Admissions office at ecpadmisisons@scu.edu.

9. Submit a $50 non-refundable application fee

Please Note: We do not require submission of GRE or GMAT test scores for admission to our programs.