Steps Required to Obtain a Teaching Position

Step 1: Assess Key Teaching Skills
Validated assessment instruments are used to determine teaching strengths and weaknesses in key teaching areas. Results are used to provide credit for teaching related knowledge and experience.

Step 2: Complete Instructional Activities
Teacher educational institution applies results from teaching skills assessment to generate individualized “plan of action.” Plans can be based on course credit hours or teaching skill competency.

Step 3: Complete Teaching Internship
Educational institution works with a qualified teacher in a local school to set up teaching internship. Additional teaching skill assessments may be used to prior to or during internship to help focus internship process.

Step 4: Obtain Certification
Once all requirements are met, the educational participant is awarded a teaching certification for the state within which the institution resides. Reciprocal agreements between states can allow the participant to teach in a state other than the one he/she has is currently certified.

Step 5: Start Teaching!
Participant applies and is accepted for job opening in state and district of his or her choosing. If the state is different from where teaching certificate is granted, a reciprocal agreement between states must exist to allow certification transfer between states. Participant is able to obtain reimbursement for selected expenses through Troops-to-Teachers as well as other funding sources (e.g., Transition to Teaching, GI Bill, etc.)