Teacher Certification Program

If you have a love of learning and enjoy working with young people, you may have thought of becoming a teacher. Maybe you had a teacher who profoundly influenced your own life.

Whether you see teaching as a lifelong career or a step in your own continuing education, a liberal arts education complements good teacher preparation. Connecticut College, whose alumni teach in schools and programs throughout the world, has a reputation for producing excellent educators.

Connecticut College offers teacher certification programs at the nursery-grade three, elementary and secondary levels. The program is accredited by the Connecticut State Department of Education and satisfies the requirements of many other states. One can also acquire private school certification.

Connecticut College is a member of CETE, the Consortium for Excellence in Teacher Education, along with Barnard, Bowdoin, Brandeis, Brown, Bryn Mawr, Dartmouth, Harvard, Middlebury, Mount Holyoke, Princeton, Smith, Swarthmore, the University of Pennsylvania, Vassar, Wellesley, Wheaton, and Yale. These 16 member institutions share a common commitment to a broad liberal arts education for those entering the teaching profession. Their teacher education graduates are characterized by breadth of study, a major in liberal arts discipline, and work in education that enables them to meet state certification in reciprocal states.

If you are contemplating teaching certification, you confer with your academic adviser and the Education Department as soon as possible after arriving on campus. Students are selected for the program on the basis of their general academic records, majors and seriousness of professional intent.

An information session about teaching certification will take place in the Alice Johnson Room in the Student Center at Crozier-Williams on Wed., March 26, from 7-8 p.m. and is open to all who are contemplating teaching as a profession.

All forms needed to apply to either the elementary or secondary teacher certification program are available by contacting Charles Cocores, certification officer.

View the College Catalog for the course requirements for teacher certification.

Last Modified: Thursday, March 06, 2008 10:25