Certification
Indiana Licensure as a School Counselor
In order to obtain Butler University's institutional
recommendation for the Indiana Professional Standards Board initial
practitioner license as a School Counselor, one must complete the
forty-eight hour MS in School
Counseling program, as well as meet other exit requirements.
* Note: Neither teaching experience
nor a teaching license is a requirement for obtaining a school
counselor license in the State of Indiana.
For more information
contact:
Ms. Sue Stahl
College of Education Certification Officer
Butler University
Jordan Hall 171
(317 940-9331)
OR
Office of Educator Licensing and Development
PH: (317) 232-9010
FAX: (317) 232-9023
Website: Office of
Educator Licensing and Development
CPR/Heimlich/Defibrillator Requirement
The State requires all students seeking a teaching license to
provide evidence of completing a course in
CPR/Heimlich Maneuver before issuing an initial teaching
license.
Applicants who receive an "initial" teacher's license must have
successfully completed training in:
1. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation that includes a test
demonstration on a mannequin;
2. Moving a foreign body causing an obstruction in an airway;
and,
3. The Heimlich maneuver.
Please be sure to visit an
approved provider.
Placement
Since 1997, program graduates seeking school counseling
positions have been very successful in doing so. Approximately 20%
of the graduates obtain positions in elementary schools, 30% in
middle schools, and 50% in high schools. Approximately 70 students
are enrolled in the program with approximately seventeen women and
three men graduating each year.
The College of Education Student
Personnel Services Office, located in Jordan Hall 185,
assists program graduates in their job search activities.
National Counselor Certification
The National Certified Counselor (NCC) credential is one of
several hallmarks of professionalism, and while not required to
practice as a school counselor in the State of Indiana, is a
credential which not only identifies you as a professional, but
helps advance the cause of professional counseling throughout the
world. Also, the National Counseling Examination taken for the NCC
is required by state counselor licensure boards in more than forty
states. There are currently 50,000 counselors with the NCC
credential. www.nbcc.org