DPS, NCCU, Duke partner to offer licensure for teachers in advanced instruction

DURHAM—North Carolina Central University and Duke University both have established licensure programs that will qualify many more Durham Public Schools teachers in advanced instruction. The two universities are hosting a total of 74 DPS teachers this summer who will receive Academically and/or Intellectually Gifted (AIG) licensure upon completing the program.

The DPS Board of Education recently approved a plan of work for the Advanced Academics Department. Part of this plan is to have at least 50 teachers per year licensed in AIG instruction.

There is a dual benefit in increasing the number of AIG licensed teachers in DPS. Not only will it ensure that more AIG students receive increasingly challenging and rigorous instruction and that more students are identified as AIG -- but it also will give many more teachers meaningful strategies and best practices that will benefit students across the spectrum of learning capacities.

NCCU and Duke were among the first universities in the state of North Carolina to have AIG licensure programs approved. Two cohorts of a total of 60 DPS teachers are completing their coursework and practicum for AIG licensure this month. Duke’s cohort of 14 teachers will finish in August and will expand to serve 26 teachers next year.

As part of their licensure requirements, AIG teachers must complete a practicum. NCCU teachers are working with rising DPS sixth-graders in the Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) program. Duke’s practicum places teachers with students from the Talent Identification Program (TIP), a Duke summer program for rising eighth-graders from across the country who have been identified as academically gifted.

“We are very grateful to North Carolina Central University and to Duke University for developing these important and highly beneficial programs,” said Superintendent Carl Harris. “Increasing opportunities for more students to be identified as academically gifted and to be able to participate in higher levels of academic rigor is one of my main goals, and the AIG licensure program is critical to our success.”

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