teaching certification

In academia, particularly in public school academia, a teacher is paid on a grid. The two main factors are years of experience and amount of education. An undergraduate degree is assumed, so the lowest pay scale starts with a bachelors degree and zero years of experience. From there the next jump is attaining grad credits or particularly a graduate degree. From there it is Grad plus so many credits and finally holding a terminal degree.

An astute reader pointed me to a statement buried deep within the 2010-2011 BJU catalog for education majors. On page 132 under Professional Education Certification reads the following:

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This recap is for all of you at Pensacola Christian College. When you get TRACS accreditation what will that mean for teaching certificates? Well here is the list of states that will accept your degree.

Florida: Yes (enthusiastically--even accepts non-accredited degrees for teacher certification): 850-245-0505

Kansas: Yes: 785-291-3678

Michigan: Yes: 517-373-3324

Virginia: Yes: 800-292-3820

Arizona: Yes: 602-542-5393

In education each state is allowed to set their own standards for certifying teachers. Often teachers must hold degrees from qualified schools in various fields of study as well as have certain number of hours in practicum and various classes that must have been taken. The variation between states is fairly drastic making interstate moves for teachers a nightmare. Typically this isn't such a problem.

We carry a list here of all the states that accept TRACS accreditation to certify a teacher. I'm still amazed by how short that list is. One thing you may not know. SC does not necessarily accept TRACS accreditation. I've known this for quite some time. SC has a separate process to approve schools in SC to certify teachers beyond just accreditation.

My name is Mark and this is my story. I graduated high school in 2000 with a plan to attend Bob Jones University and major in Music Education. At the time I was pretty open to any outcome. I would teach wherever the Lord put me, but if it were a Christian school I wouldn't mind. I pretty much always set out to get a masters degree, so I figured I had a lot of time to sort all of this out.

The following story is from user MaggieJ and is copied unedited.

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In continuation from Jocelyn Zichterman's earlier post.

Thank you to Jocelyn Zichterman for compiling this information. The accuracy of this information is good up to the time it was acquired. Unfortunately, things are ever changing so this might not reflect the latest in every state. However, numbers are provided and most of this information is provided on each state's website. Jocelyn took the extra step to confirm, state by state, that what was listed on the website was accurate in practice. I will also note that any one of these states may have exceptions or examples of graduates who work in that state.