Delivering Well Prepared Teachers Policy
South Carolina requires middle-level certification (grades 5-8) for middle school teachers. The state also requires that middle-level candidates complete two areas of concentration with at least 15 semester hours in each area.
All new middle school teachers in South Carolina are also required to pass a single-subject Praxis II content test to attain licensure; a general content knowledge test is not an option.
South Carolina was helpful in providing NCTQ with the facts necessary for this analysis.