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If you are interested in obtaining your professional teaching license from a state-approved program, please contact Susan Kohler at skohler@fgcu.edu. Our next cohort is in the planning stages, but we are advising applicants to begin taking the required courses. To see the FGCU course schedule, go to www.fgcu.edu and click on Gulfline at the top and then Course Schedule. The Teacher Immersion Program (TIP) is a state-approved program for those who hold bachelors degrees in areas other than education and who seek to become certified FL teachers. Upon completion of TIP, you will be a well-qualified, competent teacher who will make a positive difference in the lives of thousands of students. TIP includes graduate courses, an internship, classroom observation opportunities, and numerous specialized workshops to fully prepare you for the classroom. TIP fulfills your career dreams of making a difference in the lives of children.
I wouldn’t consider entering the education profession without this preparation! The help TIP provides with paperwork, testing, and other documentation is also invaluable.
As a career changer I was told about the Teacher Immersion Program by an enthusiastic participant. It was said that TIP was a comprehensive program that would help me gain the educator courses than a non-education major would have missed. It has done that and much more. It has given exposure to great professors with up-to-date knowledge plus decades of K-12 classroom experience. It has been an opportunity to work with and learn from a super group of classmates each bringing their own experience to add to a rich mix. It has also provided an opportunity to internalize the learning and burnish skills through field experience doing projects and as a teaching intern. All of this has been work but stimulating and rewording work where the payback has been multiples of the effort invested.
I recognize that I am still a rookie and am hungry to continue to learn and grow to become the best teacher I can be. I become more excited every day about having changed careers to become a teacher and be a catalyst that triggers a love of learning in students. In the event you are energized about becoming a teacher making this kind of impact on young lives and are ready to work hard you couldn’t take a better path to that future than to apply to TIP.