Teacher Licensure Program

The teacher licensure programs at Mount Holyoke enable students to apply for a Massachusetts (and NASDTEC Interstate Contract) "initial" license in the following areas: early childhood education (PreK-2), elementary education (1-6), biology teacher (5-8) and (8-12), English teacher (8-12), history teacher (5-8) and (8-12), mathematics teacher (5-8) and (8-12); earth science (5-8) and (8-12), French (5-12), German (5-12), Italian (5-12), Spanish (5-12), Russian (5-12), Latin and classical humanities (5-12), music (all levels), political science (5-8) and (8-12), and visual art (PreK-8) and (5-12).

Mount Holyoke College Pass Rates of MTEL
Federal regulations require that results of state-mandated teacher tests be reported annually in college catalogues and in other published information pertaining to the teacher education programs. The results for Mount Holyoke College for 2005-2006 are as follows:

• One hundred percent of the sixteen 2005-2006 program completers passed the reading and writing sections of the Massachusetts Test for Educator Licensure.
  
• One hundred percent of the thirteen program completers who took the Foundations of Reading section of the Massachusetts Test for Educator Licensure passed.
  
• Pass rates are not reported for academic areas where there were less than ten students who took the test. Therefore, there are no individual reports for results for Early Childhood (5), General Curriculum (8), Mathematics 8-12 (1), French 5-12 (1) and Russian 5-12 (1).
  
• The aggregate score for the 16 students who took a total of sixteen subject areas was 100%.  The summary total and aggregate score for the sixteen students who took both the basic skills and specific subject area tests was 100%.