careers in teaching

walkinghome
Sat, 25 Oct 2008 13:00:29 +0000

Mother of a recent ed grad here. Knowing the certification rules for the state your daughter wants to teach in is critical. Our daughter went to college in IL and we asked specifically if there was a reciprocal agreement with PA when we first looked at her future college. We were assured there was, and if you do a cursory look that’s true. What we found out her senior year was that PA would accept her education degree as counting but she would still have to take the PA praxis (certification) tests. She did that her senior year (after having taken almost the exact same tests for IL certification), and then moved to China for a year.

Late August of this year she moved back to PA and decided to finish the paperwork for certification. Two months later, she’s still waiting. Apparently, it takes months for this process.