Career Changer Opportunities

Career changers will enter the schools informed of the culture of twenty-first century schools and will be making a valuable contribution to the education of our youth.

Career changers will benefit from working with the center in the following ways:

• time to complete a field placement in the schools to learn about teaching as a profession;
• opportunities to talk with school administrators and successful career changer teachers;
• classes introducing the basic knowledge of the teaching profession;
• information and support as career changers explore teaching as a possible career change;
• information concerning all pathways to teacher certification through a database;
• continued advice and support after career changers make the decision to teach;
• opportunities to provide a valuable contribution to the education of our youth as volunteers and, if the decision is made to teach, as teachers;
• initiation into the culture of the schools;
• state fairs to provide information from institutions of higher education, school systems, and the State Department of Education;
• opportunities for career changers to use their unique mix of skills, expertise, and content knowledge after retirement from their first career.