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Ms. Karem Marin, left to right, sings a song with fourth year world language education major Summer Willingham of Gainesville and fourth year Spanish and world language education major Matt Christmas of Macon along with ...

Spanish/TESOL and World Language Education - A.B., B.S.Ed.

About this Degree

The TESOL & World Language Education Program offers a B.S.Ed. at the undergraduate level. The B.S.Ed. program prepares students to teach modern, classical, and Less Commonly Taught Languages in pre-school through 12th grade. Students earn T-4 (initial) certification to teach in Georgia public schools.

What you will learn

In 1998-99, the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia published Principles for the Preparation of Educators for the Schools. This document states that teacher educators from The University of Georgia must be able to guarantee the quality of its graduates in teacher education programs. As a result of that mandate, we ask teacher candidates in the Foreign Language Education Initial Certification Program to read, discuss, and sign this Quality Assurance Contract. The contract spells out the principles of professional conduct that you agree to uphold, efforts we (the University faculty and graduate assistants) will make to assist teacher candidates who are not meeting those expectations, and possible consequences for those who do not live up to this agreement. By living up to the Quality Assurance Contract, you will have demonstrated both your potential to meet the program’s goals for professional educators and your commitment to be a good citizen of a school community and the teaching profession at large.

Possible Job Titles:

Administrative Assistant
Associate Editor
Associate Project Manager
Bilingual Instructor
Business Development Manager
CIA/FBI Special Agent
Civil Service Worker
Client Services Coordinator
Copy Editor
Customs Official
Development Assistant
Diplomat
Environmental Translator
Events Logistical Liaison
Female Bilingual Voice Talent
Foreign News Journalist
Foreign Services Worker
Hispanic Services Coordinator
Historian
Immigration Specialist
Import/Export Agent
Intelligence Specialist Interpreter
Laboratory Technician
Language Researcher
Legal Assistant
Linguist
Military Office Intern
Multicultural Communications Manager
Multicultural Education and Outreach 
Coordinator
Paraprofessional
Peace Corps Volunteer
Program Coordinator
Recruiter/Business Development
Research Associate
Resource Coordinator & Inside Sales 
Representative
Restaurant Management

Employers:

Applied Health
CB Richard Ellis
Cenarte
Chambers of Commerce
Cooper's Hawk Restaurant and Winery
Delta Airlines
Digital Blue
Education Department of Puerto Rico
EDUCAUSE
Embassies
Fablevision Animation
George Walton Academy
GEORGIA Magazine
Global Collect
Google, Inc.
H&A Events
Imagine Exhibitions Inc.
Import / Export Companies
Inter-Faith Council for Social Service
International Studies Abroad
IUPUI
Jericho Translations
King and Spaldings Law Firm
National Archives
National Republican Congressional 
Committee
News Bureaus
Peace Corps
Public Relations Firms
Public Service Organizations
Savannah-Chatham Public School 
System
Spanish National Research Council
StrictlySpanish LLC
The Cottage School
The Greenville News
The Wesley Foundation
TRANE
Travel Agencies
UCAR/NCAR
Unity Village
Universidad de Cesar Vallejo 

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