American Sign Language Pedagogy at Kent State

If you want to see a tentative sequence of courses for the ASL major with the L2 ed teaching licensure minor, go to:

http://thorykksu.webs.com/aslmajorwithlicensure.htm

If you want to know more

in general  about

Foreign Language TeachingLicensure

for ASL (the L2 Ed minor),  

click here:

http://www.freewebs.com/thorykksu/flteachingbroch.htm

IF YOU ARE WANT

TO BECOME LICENSED

 TO TEACH ASL:

 A. AND YOU ARE AN UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT AT KSU:

1.  Make sure you've officially declared your ASL MAJOR.  To do this, you make an appointment with the advising office in Bowman 105 (College of Arts and Sciences). To make an appointment with 105 Bowman click here: http://as.kent.edu/prepareadv.html. 

2.  Declare your EDUCATION MINOR.  You do this the same way you declared your major.  You would go to the advising office in 105 Bowman (you can do it during the same appointment when you declare your major, if you haven't done this yet.  If you are already a double major with ASL and another major  in White Hall, College of Education, you would go to your advising office in White Hall.).

3.  Meet with your ASL Major Advisor/ASL program coordinator (rthoryk@kent.edu) to make a copy of your form(s) and keep them in your major file and have a copy to keep for yourself, with a third copy to take to the Pedagogy Unit coordinator.  Set up a tentative sequence of courses, and get any needed permits for course registration.  Register for courses.

4. Make an appointment with a advisor in the College of Education, Health and Human Services in White Hall, where you will complete a check list and have the EHHS advisor sign your minor form.

5. Make an appointment to meet with the MCLS Pedagogy Unit coordinator so that you will have an MCLS Ed minor advisor assigned to you. (vellison@kent.edu)

 B. OR YOU ARE (OR WILL BE) A STUDENT WHO WILL BE TRANSFERRING INTO KSU WITH CREDITS EARNED ELSEWHERE

AND/OR PREVIOUS ASL COURSES

AND/OR AN ASSOCIATE DEGREE

AND/OR A PREVIOUS B.A.:

1. Contact Admissions (http://www.kent.edu/admissions/ )

2. Read the page at this site called “Info for Students” and make arrengements to take the ASL placement test ONE SEMESTER BEFORE YOU INTEND TO ENTER KSU.  OR YOU MAY SUBMIT A SLPI or ASLPI REPORT (taken during the current year) SHOWING ADVANCED LEVEL ASL SKILLS.

3. Contact the ASL program coordinator (rthoryk@kent.edu) and the Pedagogy program coordinator (vellison@kent.edu)

4. Take your placement exam.  After your placement exam, or after you've produced a recent (within 1 year) SLPI/ASLPI report showing Advanced Level ASL skills, we will know what previous ASL courses will be eligible for transfer credit, and we’ll know what level of ASL is the best “fit” for you.  A tentative course sequence will then be set up.

5. Register for classes.