Program Overview
Learn how to collect data, do thorough assessments, and make informed recommendations to the educational team and family on how to support a child's equity within the school. Program graduates hold a range of positions, including preschool teachers, itinerant TVIs, resource room teachers, teachers in schools for the blind, special education teachers, school administrators, and jobs focused on transition or working with adults with visual impairments.
Careers
There is an estimated shortage of 10,000 teachers of students with visual impairments (TVIs) in the United States. Graduates are prepared to be licensed TVIs and work with students pre-K through 12th grade.
Program Facts
Program Coordinator: Rachel Schles
Admissions Coordinator: Kelly Limina
Admission Term: Summer
Enrollment: Part-time or Full-time
Credit Hours: 35 (+ 6 credits for student teaching for candidates seeking initial licensure)
Application Dates
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Application Deadline 1
Jan 3, 2025
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Application Deadline 2
Feb 3, 2025
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Rolling Admissions
After Feb 3, 2025*
*Applications after January 3 will be accepted on a rolling basis through April 1, with no applications accepted after April 1.
Training Grant
Funding opportunities are available through the U.S. Department of Education-funded personnel preparation training grant, Redefining Intersectional Special Education to Prepare Culturally Competent and Conscientious Teachers of Students with Visual Impairments (Project RISE-TVIs).
Tennessee Department of Education
Hybrid/distance program funding opportunities are available through the Tennessee Department of Education offered to currently licensed, working TN teachers.