Guides
Guides to becoming a teacher
What Degree Do You Need to Be a Teacher?
Which degrees teaching credentials require, from bachelor's to master's, using Title II credential data for every state.
How to Verify a Teaching License or Certificate
Where to look up a teaching license in every state: the agency that runs each lookup.
How to Get a Teaching Certificate
The steps to a teaching certificate: degree, preparation, tests, checks and the state application.
Alternative Teacher Certification Explained
How alternative routes work for career changers, with national counts and every state's routes.
How to Become a Teacher: Steps by State
How to become a certified teacher, how long it takes and how to teach high school, state by state.
Traditional vs Alternative Teacher Certification
How traditional and alternative teacher certification differ, using Title II data.
What Is a College of Education?
What colleges of education do and how they relate to teacher preparation providers.
How to Read Title II Teacher Preparation Data
Plain-English definitions of every Title II field used on PT3.