These programs provide a way to get certified without obtaining a traditional bachelor degree in education. Generally, programs are run through states’ boards of education. You are placed (with provisional certification) in school districts with teacher shortages and begin teaching a regular course load immediately, often at regular salary. Your teaching counts towards the state’s requirements for student teaching hours. You complete the coursework or special seminars required by the state for certification at night or during the summer (this differs from state to state). Be sure to find out if the certification you will receive is permanent, and if it can be transferred to other states.

The Alternate Route to Teacher Certification (ARC (CT))  
Admission to ARC is competitive and requires a minimum of a bachelor’s degree and an academic major in the subject you wish to teach, along with other application criteria. All applicants must have passed the Praxis I examinations or have received a waiver based on past tests such as the SAT or the GRE. ARC offers two sessions. ARC I is a nine-week, full-time summer session which runs from June into August. ARC II is a weekend session (Friday evenings and all day Saturdays) on three out of four weekends each month from late October into mid-May. Both sessions require a student teaching experience as well.

Baltimore City Teaching Residency

The Baltimore City Teaching Residency is committed to helping outstanding professionals enter Baltimore City Public Schools (City Schools) and begin teaching in our city’s public schools. As a Resident, you will pursue your teaching credential with the Baltimore City Teaching Residency ; attend a comprehensive training prior to teaching; receive a teacher’s salary with full benefits; and have access to tuition assistance, home ownership programs, and student loan deferral or forgiveness programs.

Breakthrough Collaborative
In 25 cities across the nation and abroad, Breakthrough Collaborative launches motivated middle-school students on the path to college and prepares older students for careers in education. A national nonprofit, Breakthrough Collaborative is devoted to preparing high-achieving middle-school students, most of whom are of color and from low-income families, to enter and succeed in college-preparatory high school programs

City on a Hill (MA)

Well into its second decade as an effective urban high school, City on a Hill believes that certifying teachers through a rigorous, on-site, immersion program is the most effective method of training and certifying urban public high school teachers.

City Year
At City Year’s 24 locations across the United States, teams of diverse young people called corps members serve full-time in schools for 10 months working to improve student attendance, behavior and course performance in English and math.

DC Teaching Fellows (Washington, DC)
The Teaching Fellows program was specifically created to bring talented, energetic teachers to DC’s most challenged schools. In return for teaching where you are urgently needed, DC Teaching Fellows participate in an intensive pre-service training program and pursue a teaching credential while teaching. Fellows also benefit from: a fast track application process, ongoing resources at the school and district levels, a regular teacher’s salary and benefits, a network of like-minded professionals committed to educational excellence for the students of DC.

Higher Achievement
Higher Achievement closes the opportunity gap during the pivotal middle school years. By leveraging the power of communities, Higher Achievement’s proven model provides a rigorous year-round learning environment, caring role models, and a culture of high expectations, resulting in college-bound scholars with the character, confidence, and skills to succeed.

Jumpstart
Jumpstart is the only national supplemental program that leverages the power of community and adult-child relationships to build the key language and literacy skills children need to take on the world.

Knowles Science Teaching Foundation – Teaching Fellows Program 
For students majoring in science and math education, the KSTF Teaching Fellows Program awards exceptional young men and women with five-year, early-career Fellowships, empowering them to become primary agents of educational improvement. These “backbone” teachers reach thousands of students each year, take on leadership roles improving math and science education from the classroom and strengthen the teaching profession.

Match Teacher Residency
Recent college graduates are given one year of intense training designed to make them effective rookie teachers.  We then help them find positions in high-need schools, and continue to support them as they begin their careers in the classroom.

Mississippi Teacher Corps
The Mississippi Teacher Corps is a two-year program, similar to the Peace Corps, that recruits college graduates to teach in Mississippi schools, primarily in the Mississippi Delta. The program is designed for non-education majors and offers a host of benefits, including:

• Teacher training and certification
• Full scholarship for a master’s degree in education from the University of Mississippi
• Job placement that includes full pay ($30,000+) and benefits
• The opportunity to make a difference in the lives of students in one of the poorest areas of the country

NYC Teaching Fellows
The mission of the NYC Teaching Fellows program is to recruit and prepare high-quality, dedicated individuals to become teachers who raise student achievement in the New York City classrooms that need them most.

Provisional Teacher Program (NJ) The Alternate Route program is a non-traditional teacher preparation program designed for those individuals who HAVE NOT completed a formal teacher preparation program at an accredited college or university, but wish to obtain the necessary training to become a NJ certified teacher.

TNTP Teaching Fellows
TNTP Teaching Fellows is a rigorous alternative certification program that recruits and trains talented career changers and recent college graduates to be outstanding teachers in high-need schools across the country. 

Urban Teacher Center
A program that prepares master teachers to work in urban schools. UTC is preparing and placing teachers for grades nine – 12 in math, English and science with dual certification in special education. Their publication, “A Great Teacher, Every Time,” captures a few of these stories, offering you a glimpse of what their intensive teacher development model has meant to hundreds of UTC educators and their students.

Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellowships
The Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellowship seeks to attract talented, committed individuals with backgrounds in the STEM fields—science, technology, engineering, and mathematics—into teaching in high-need secondary schools in Georgia, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and New Jersey. Eligible applicants include current undergraduates, recent college graduates, midcareer professionals, and retirees who have majored in, or had careers in, STEM fields.