Course Credit

The Teacher Cadet course is offered for dual/honors credit status for the standards of South Carolina’s uniform grading policy quality point weighting. 

According to the policy, a Teacher Cadet Program will be awarded dual weighting if it meets district criteria for a third or fourth Carnegie unit in a content area and is affiliated with a college or university. If the Teacher Cadet Program is not affiliated with a college or university or a student opts not to take the course for college credit, honors credit is awarded for the course.

Most of our Teacher Cadet sites offer dual credit.  The college partners offer a variety of credit.  Each year CERRA updates its grid indicating the kind of credit offered by each college partner. Please click here for additional information.

Experience suggests that dual credit encourages more high-achievers to consider the course as a serious part of their senior year program studies.  We suggest that you verify this dual credit status with your principal immediately so that the guidance office can make the appropriate notations in your school’s registration course selection booklet.

The South Carolina Educational Policy Center’s research indicates that the Cadet Program should be offered as the equivalent of a full-year course because that amount of time is necessary to accomplish the goals of the program.

The course code for Teacher Cadet is 3389XXEW and it appears in the manual for Course and Activity Codes published by the SC Department of Education.  Please note the following: The Teacher Cadet Program was also approved as an eligible “completer” course for Career and Technology Education (CATE) students. IF the Cadet is a CATE student, the course code that should be used is 5705XXEW. ONLY CATE students are allowed to use that code.