{"id":834,"date":"2017-01-04T08:22:57","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T13:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education\/?p=834"},"modified":"2024-02-12T08:32:11","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T13:32:11","slug":"st-petersburg-college-epi-educator-preparation-institute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/st-petersburg-college-epi-educator-preparation-institute\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Petersburg College (EPI) Educator Preparation Institute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have a bachelor\u2019s degree or higher and want to become a teacher?<\/p>\n<p>SPC&#8217;s state-approved <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spcollege.edu\/epi\/?utm_term=Social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Educator Preparation Institute (EPI)<\/a> is a sequential, three-semester program leading to Florida Professional Certification for people who have a bachelor&#8217;s degree in a non-education major.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more, attend our information session on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Thursday, February 2, 2017<\/li>\n<li>5:30 p.m. &#8211; 6:30 p.m.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"Please RSVP online here\" href=\"https:\/\/web.spcollege.edu\/survey\/22898\">Please RSVP online here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The EPI Info Session will be at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/2465+Drew+St,+Clearwater,+FL+33765\/@27.965875,-82.7381057,17z\/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x88c2f02a9573f30d:0xba88fb739dc232cc?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Clearwater Campus<\/a>\u00a0in the Ethics and Social Science Bldg. (ES), Room 104, located at 2465 Drew St., Clearwater.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, call 727-791-2521.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Education Preparation Institute\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Institute is primarily for students with a non-education bachelor&#8217;s degree or higher who want to become Florida certified teachers.<\/p>\n<p>All EPI classes require evening and online coursework; it is not an online-only program. Teacher candidates meet once or twice a week in the evenings \u00a0and then complete online modules over the next few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Practical teaching is also an integral part of the EPI. Teacher candidates will complete a 60-hour practicum during the second term of the EPI. During a teacher candidate&#8217;s final semester, a full-day, eight-week internship is required. SPC works with Pinellas, Pasco and Hillsborough counties to secure practicum and internship assignments for all College of Education students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have a bachelor\u2019s degree or higher and want to become a teacher? SPC&#8217;s state-approved Educator Preparation Institute (EPI) is a sequential, three-semester program leading to Florida Professional Certification for people who have a bachelor&#8217;s degree in a non-education major. To learn more, attend our information session on: Thursday, February 2, 2017 5:30 p.m. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/st-petersburg-college-epi-educator-preparation-institute\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">St. Petersburg College (EPI) Educator Preparation Institute<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-of-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=834"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6211,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions\/6211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}