careers in teaching

JHS
Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:43:23 +0000

amazon, the thing to be aware of is that states have different, complex, and sometimes changing requirements for teacher certification, and it’s not always super-easy to move between states. Public schools generally require certification, private and Catholic schools generally don’t and generally pay less.

If she wants to be certified when she finishes college, she needs to pay attention to that right now. If there’s an education department at her college, they should be up on certification standards, at least in that state, and probably in neighboring states, too.

There are also a number of programs (the most famous and most difficult to get into being Teach For America) that try to get uncertified recent college grads into teaching. Some of them combine this new-teacher experience with a plan to get certified – see The New Teacher Project.