Chapter 7: A Blended Online Model For Instruction: The North Carolina Story

Unlike other licensing areas where individual universities establish a program of study to meet state licensing objectives, the North Carolina State Board of Education charged the University of North Carolina System with establishing and maintaining of a program of study to support the Elementary Mathematics Add-on License (EMAoL). A consortium of seven North Carolina universities designed and piloted the program of study from 2009 to 2011 (Rachlin, 2013). Each university uses the same catalog descriptions, a common end-of-program assessment, and, as much as possible, the same course syllabi.

Each of the six courses in the EMAoL Program-of-Study is distinguished by a focus on a high-leverage teaching practice, a primary area of mathematics necessary for successfully teaching elementary school mathematics, and a secondary area of mathematical content (see Table 7.1).