Anonymous wrote:This is a really helpful thread. Thanks to all who have contributed. I have one additional question -- when looking at the MCPS payscale, it has different rates for Bachelors and Masters. My husband is interested in becoming a teacher, and he has a masters, but it's not in teaching or the area he'd likely teach in (a world language). Does that qualify as a Masters for the higher payscale, or does it have to be an education masters? Thanks!

NP here. I'm a career changer in my 16th year of teaching. Any Masters' will qualify you for the Master's pay-scale. The additional 30 credit-hours for the teacher certification gets you to Master's +30, which is what I came in at. If you are proactive your first several years taking courses that will help you teach your content or related to pedagogy, you can get to the +60 lane in 5-10 years.

Has anyone taken the Teach-Now program by Moreland University to get teaching certification?

Anonymous wrote:This is a really helpful thread. Thanks to all who have contributed. I have one additional question -- when looking at the MCPS payscale, it has different rates for Bachelors and Masters. My husband is interested in becoming a teacher, and he has a masters, but it's not in teaching or the area he'd likely teach in (a world language). Does that qualify as a Masters for the higher payscale, or does it have to be an education masters? Thanks!

It can be a masters in anything.

This is a really helpful thread. Thanks to all who have contributed. I have one additional question -- when looking at the MCPS payscale, it has different rates for Bachelors and Masters. My husband is interested in becoming a teacher, and he has a masters, but it's not in teaching or the area he'd likely teach in (a world language). Does that qualify as a Masters for the higher payscale, or does it have to be an education masters? Thanks!

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Anonymous wrote:I know several people who have gone through the ACET program successfully as career changers:
https://www.montgomerycollege.edu/academics/abeess/school-of-education/alternative-certification-effective-teachers.html

This program!

Why would anyone pay that when they could get hired with a transcript evaluation immediately? You can take classes while being conditionally certified at UofPhx, while getting full salary, and tuition reimbursement from MCPS.

can you elaborate on this?

You need to apply with MCPS first...You need a bachelor's degree as a pre-req. They will evaluate your transcript to see how many courses you will need to take if hired. You will be contacted for a pre-screen interview. It's a phone interview with the district. If they hire you, they will offer you and open contract with a conditional certification. You will have two years to complete the required course necessary for certification. In the meantime, MCPS pays (its pretty crappy tuition reimbursement tbh but better than nothing) $1500 (up to 9 credits) every fiscal year. You will likely need to take a couple of Praxis exams. State of MD waives the Praxis core for a few things (at least a 3.0 on your last degree acquired from a college/university; minimum SAT/ACT score) but there will be a PLC Praxis and depending if you are elementary or hs, a teaching reading and content Praxis, respectively. It is the least expensive route to take and you will be working full time with your conditional certification. I'd get started ASAP if you want to be hired this way. The process for initial hiring takes a bit. You can begin here: https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/careers/join-as-a-teacher.aspx

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Anonymous wrote:I know several people who have gone through the ACET program successfully as career changers:
https://www.montgomerycollege.edu/academics/abeess/school-of-education/alternative-certification-effective-teachers.html

This program!

Why would anyone pay that when they could get hired with a transcript evaluation immediately? You can take classes while being conditionally certified at UofPhx, while getting full salary, and tuition reimbursement from MCPS.

can you elaborate on this?

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Anonymous wrote:I know several people who have gone through the ACET program successfully as career changers:
https://www.montgomerycollege.edu/academics/abeess/school-of-education/alternative-certification-effective-teachers.html

This program!

Why would anyone pay that when they could get hired with a transcript evaluation immediately? You can take classes while being conditionally certified at UofPhx, while getting full salary, and tuition reimbursement from MCPS.

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Anonymous wrote:I know several people who have gone through the ACET program successfully as career changers:
https://www.montgomerycollege.edu/academics/abeess/school-of-education/alternative-certification-effective-teachers.html

This program!

My spouse did this many years ago. Is now an AP. The great thing is that it's fairly quick, as far as these things go, and you start out at full salary. Some of the other programs have you work as a long term sub for a vacancy (so basically the same responsibility as a full time teacher but none of the benefits and a fraction of the pay) for a year or two.

MCPS has a lot of teacher training partnerships, but many are only open to current support staff. ACET is open to non-employees. There's one at Johns Hopkins that has tuition reimbursement from MCPS, but it's for those wishing to be special educators.

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/personnel/teacherprep/

Anonymous wrote:I know several people who have gone through the ACET program successfully as career changers:
https://www.montgomerycollege.edu/academics/abeess/school-of-education/alternative-certification-effective-teachers.html

This program!

You could honestly teach next school year on a conditional 2 year certificate while doing an accelerated masters in teaching program

Reach out to the schools that you want to work at as a teacher. Interview there, then have the principal reach out to Central office to get you hired under provisional license. You can get certified through the CDO classes through the county.

I have a PhD and got hired with a provisional license. It is not an easy path. You get thrown into teaching with no training. And you have to take classes concurrently with teaching. The classes are not very helpful to my day to day teaching and are a decent amount of work

I know several people who have gone through the ACET program successfully as career changers:
https://www.montgomerycollege.edu/academics/abeess/school-of-education/alternative-certification-effective-teachers.html

Some colleges around the area offer teacher certification programs for career changers. I know that Notre Dame of Maryland has one.

https://www.ndm.edu/grad-prof-studies/academics/programs/accelerated-certification-teaching

You can also pursue getting hired by MCPS as a teacher on a provisional license. Then you have a certain number of years to get certified. If you do get hired this way, the county will reimburse you for some of the tuition for the classes you take.

You could also try to get hired as a para. The county has some programs to help paras become teachers. The county will help pay for some of the tuition.

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/personnel/teacherprep/

I have a Bachelor and Master degree in science, and have been an MCPS sub teacher for the past 6 mths. What's the fast way to get a teaching certificate if I'm interested in being a full time high school science teacher in the near future?

I've been reading through these websites and even contacted certinfo.msde@maryland.gov, but I didn't get a clear answer. I was told the process is different since I'm a sub and I have a master degree.
https://www.marylandpublicschools.org/about/Pages/DEE/Certification/index.aspx
https://www.marylandpublicschools.org/about/Documents/DEE/Certification/TEACH_Applicant_Guide.pdf

Do I only need to upload my transcripts to TEACH online service? Do I need to take additional courses/online training? Will MCPS reimburse the training? Whom should I contact about this?

TIA!