Community Corner

Considering a Career Change? Workshops Explain Teacher Certification

The nonprofit American Board helps working professionals—such as engineers, scientists, scholars, and historians—to new careers in the classroom.

Often, when professionals are looking for a career change, they want to help kids and give back to the community by becoming a classroom teacher —but they don't have the coursework for certification.

The American Board, a 501 (c)3 nonprofit organization, is offering several workshops in the area to explain Missouri teacher certification, and they're inviting prospective teachers and professionals to attend. 

Those workshops are:

The Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) has approved The American Board to offer an online certification program that offers a rigorous training process that develops classroom management skills and builds on the candidate's subject-area expertise. 

Pre-registration is available on the American Board website


Get more local news delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for free Patch newsletters and alerts.

We’ve removed the ability to reply as we work to make improvements. Learn more here

More from St. Charles