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- All public school educators in Georgia are required to have a certificate from the PSC, except
for substitute teachers.
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Georgia offers educator certification of six types:
Teacher,
Service ,
Leadership,
Permit, Technical Specialist, and Paraprofessional.
- In order to become certified, you must have at
least a four-year degree from an accredited academic college. Special
exceptions to this rule exist for certification
in career/technology education teaching fields, service
fields, and leadership
fields.
Click
here to see career/technology education (vocational) rules.
- Not all degree fields (majors) are well matched to certification teaching
fields. When you select a certificate field for your application, it
should be as close as possible to your college major field.
Click here to see the
certification field closest to your academic major.
- If you completed student teaching in a teacher training program, you
should submit a recommendation form from your preparation
program's certification official along with the application for your
first Georgia certificate (or in addition to your online application
procedure).
Click here to see application forms and the recommendation form available for download from the web.
- If you did not complete student teaching in a teacher
training program, you must apply for a certificate in one
of the methods described in the list below.
Note: in order to apply for the either of the following two options,
you must be finished with your four-year degree, and your overall bachelor
level grade point average must be at least 2.5 on a 4 point
grading scale (this 2.5 requirement is
waived if your graduation was more than 10 years ago). The
only exceptions are for the particular career/technology education fields which do not require a 4-year degree
and other fields that require a specific degree or major, such as the
fields of school counseling and school nutrition director.
- Test-Based route, with a nonrenewable
certificate valid for five years.
- Pass (or exempt) Georgia's required basic skills test and pass Georgia's required
subject test over content in your field.
Click here for information on Basic Skills exemption.
Click Here for Testing Information
- Your employing school system must join
with you in requesting your certificate.
- You must enroll in a state-approved
program complete requirements and obtain recommendation during the
validity period of certificate.
OR
- Pass (or exempt) Georgia's required basic skills test, pass Georgia's required
subject test over content in your field, and pass Georgia's professional pedagogy test.
Click here for information on Basic Skills exemption.
Click Here for Testing Information
This option is only for teaching fields.
- Your employing school system must join with you in requesting your certificate.
Note: To convert this style of nonrewable certificate to renewable status, you may either
receive a recommendation from an approved preparation program or successfully complete a PSC-approved
supervised practicum started in your first year of employment.
Intern teaching certificate through the
GATAPP program (GA Teacher Alternative Preparation Program).
Click here to find out more about
these routes to Georgia certification.
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