No degree to Certified School teacher in 12 months 3 Weeks

Began with 19 hours graduated Excelsior with 158 in 12 months and three weeks, Excelsior 3.6 GPA BS in Psychology Area of Focus: Education

Education DL and B&M 4.0 with 36 credits in education at a 4.0 including student teaching, (also in excelsior total)

Included in that time I took all my necessary
face to face classes for Educaton, did 12 weeks of Student teaching, took 7 Praxis exams and 2 State specific tests. Certification in hand. I am certified to teach K-8, I am sure some in the establishment might have a problem with the duration, Phoenix actualy told me It could not be done, then tried to pump me for information on how where etc.

Total cost < $6000.

John Bear Thanks for writing your guides

Lawrie thanks for BA in 4 weeks

I also ran a business and substitute taught as well as being my kids dad, etc.

Happy to be on to the next step

By the way the teaching certifiication is valid for 5 years and
shares reciprocity with almost all states.

 

Congratulations!! That's phenomenal!

Brandon

 

What a wonderful series of accomplishments. Your is an inspiring story of what can happen when someone who is so focused and highly motivated seeks after good informaiton and takes advantage of the myriad of non-traditional options available. So many people are willing to take the illegitimate route of diploma mills, rather than actually buckling down and doing the work, as you have.

Your story is an inspiration and could be very helpful to others. have you considered writing down your experiences and getting it published? It would be helpful to document how you happend to achieve such a large amount of work while leading a life (and, I assume getting at least an hour's worth of sleep per night).

Tony Piña
Administrator, Northeastern Illinois University

 

Congratulations !!!

Very encouraging.

In many states this is the only way, that is to earn an accredited degree.

Degree milled degree won't work, our state will inspect every degree candidate have and even accredited degreed applicants have to take additional classes.

 

Congratulations! It's quite an achievement. Having done what you've done (but not at the pace in which you did it, more's the pity!), I know what that entails.

May I ask who you did the student teaching through? As far as I know, you would have needed to do it through a university that has an agreement with school districts and is certified by the state to provide such instruction, so I think that leaves Excelsior out, doesn't it?

Again, congrats!



Tom Nixon

 

I am back employed in field and looking for a cheap masters

I have now been teaching in a well thought of system for 1/1/2 years

Looking for cheap fast masters !