*For those of you who don't know, teacher certification works like this (in my understanding): you are certified to teach in the state that you went to college in. Usually the college you went to is only able to certify you in that state. To get your certification in another state, you have to meet all of their individual requirements, which are usually very different from state to state. For instance, California says you have to go to school for 5 years to get an education degree and be certified. So if you are certified in another state, you may have to take extra classes or something to go to California and teach there (with certification, you can still teach without being certified, because teachers never used to have to be certified, it was just an added bonus. Now, with the No Child Left Behind, teachers are supposed to be "highly qualified" which means certified.) However, Concordia River Forest was nationally certified, which meant that your certification and degree would be accepted at any of the 50 states, and to transfer your certification, all you have to do is usually pay a fee and take a state constitution test. This is good, but it means that I have to be able to get certified in Illinois first.
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*For those of you who don't know, teacher certification works like this (in my understanding): you are certified to teach in the state that you went to college in. Usually the college you went to is only able to certify you in that state. To get your certification in another state, you have to meet all of their individual requirements, which are usually very different from state to state. For instance, California says you have to go to school for 5 years to get an education degree and be certified. So if you are certified in another state, you may have to take extra classes or something to go to California and teach there (with certification, you can still teach without being certified, because teachers never used to have to be certified, it was just an added bonus. Now, with the No Child Left Behind, teachers are supposed to be "highly qualified" which means certified.) However, Concordia River Forest was nationally certified, which meant that your certification and degree would be accepted at any of the 50 states, and to transfer your certification, all you have to do is usually pay a fee and take a state constitution test. This is good, but it means that I have to be able to get certified in Illinois first.
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