What are Alternative Pathways to Teacher Certification
Teaching Interns: In pursuing teacher certification, participants will teach under the “Teaching Intern” certificate. Upon the issuance of a teaching Intern Certificate individuals will be able to pursue a teaching contract in an Arizona public school. They receive full teaching salary and benefits, which ensures no loss of income for participants. Support is received from a district/school administrator and a college/university supervisor.
How to proceed?
Program Partners and Other Links
Arizona Education Employment Board (AEEB)
Current education job postings.
Arizona Educator Proficiency Assessments (AEPA)
As part of obtaining their Teaching Intern Certificate, Intern prospects will be required to take and pass the Subject Knowledge portion of the Arizona Educator Proficiency Assessment. During year two they must pass the Professional Knowledge portion. This link will provide you with scheduling and fee information.
Arizona Rural Schools Association
ARSA provides a listing of current job openings in small and rural Arizona districts for teachers, administrators, teaching interns, and support staff who are looking for open positions throughout the state.
Arizona Teaching Fellows
Arizona Teaching Fellows seeks outstanding professionals and recent college graduates who wish to build a career making a difference in the lives of Arizona’s children. This highly-selective program is designed to recruit and train socially-driven individuals who want to give back to the community by becoming teachers in high-need Arizona public schools.
College Funding Opportunities
This link provides a list of funding grants, resources and tools to assist students who intend to teach in a public elementary or secondary school. NOTE: This is not meant to be an exhaustive listing.
As determined by the United States Department of Education, Arizona counties and academic disciplines identified as having a teacher shortage for the 2011-2012 school year.
New Teacher Center
The New Teacher Center is nationally recognized for providing beginning teacher induction services. Mentors in Transition to Teaching Grant districts will be trained by the New Teacher Center to provide support for beginning teachers in the grant.
Teach For America is the national corps of outstanding recent college graduates and professionals of all academic majors and career interests who commit two years to teach in urban and rural public schools and become leaders in the effort to expand educational opportunity.
Teach In Arizona
Teach In Arizona is an Arizona Department of Education affiliated website that provides comprehensive information on becoming a teacher in Arizona. Resources include: steps to become a teacher in Arizona, certification requirements and related information, employment posting resources, and additional careers in education.
Troops to Teachers
Troops to Teachers provides counseling and referral services to military personnel interested in beginning a second career in public education as a teacher. The DANTES Troops to Teachers office will help applicants identify teacher certification requirements, programs leading to certification and employment opportunities. If you think a transition to teaching as a second career might be in your future, click on the above link to see how you can get started.
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