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Excellent applicants seeking to become special educators will be
selected to receive 80% grant tuition assistance* for a 42-credit
graduate program in special education at Johns Hopkins University.
Participants will
be employed as special educators in PGCPS concurrent with their
completion of this two-year comprehensive and rigorous master’s program
that leads to full certification for teaching students with mild
to moderate disabilities. Participants are required to continue
special education
teaching
in PGCPS for two years after graduation.
Eligible applicants include people who desire a career change into special
education and who have an undergraduate degree in an area other than special
education. Applicants may already be employed in PGCPS. Applicants should
not be fully-certified special educators nor close to full certification.
Selected applicants will be interviewed and notified in April 2004, begin
JHU coursework June 1, 2004, and begin PGCPS employment in August 2004.
All applicants must be eligible for immediate admission to JHU graduate
programs and employment in PGCPS. Courses will be completed at JHU’s
Columbia Center. Refer to the Partnership Application
packet for further
eligibility requirements, program coursework, and federal grant assistance
obligations.
Information sessions will be held at JHU
Columbia Center (6740 Alexander
Bell Drive, Columbia MD 21046) at 4:30 on Thursday, February 5 and Wednesday,
March 3.
Deadline for receipt of Partnership Applications is 3 pm,
April 16, 2004.
For a PGCPS and JHU Partnership Application Packet, go to http://cte.jhu.edu/JHUPartnershipPGCPS
* 80% tuition assistance contingent on federal fund availability.
For more information, review contents of the Partnership Application. For
additional questions, contact:
Dr. Peggy King-Sears, Project Director
Professor
Johns Hopkins University
Department of Special Education
Montgomery County Campus
9601 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, MD 20850
(301) 294-7040 or e-mail: kingsear@jhu.edu
For a JHU School of Professional Studies in Business and Education catalog,
call 1-800-GoToJHU or www.spsbe.jhu.edu
Ms. Jill Hildenbrand, Project Liaison
Regional Special Education Specialist
Prince George’s County Public Schools
Department of Special Education
8908 Riggs Road, Suite 358
Adelphi, MD 20782
(301) 408-5505 or e-mail: jhilden@pgcps.org
For information on PGCPS employment, refer to www.pgcps.org
Last Updated: 1/28/04
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