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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

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