该National Education Association和美国教育部这两份报告都提出了教师认证的替代路径正在上升。越来越多，不像传统学位计划的认证的路径正在作为选项开放。首先，决定你是否真的想参加教学，然后您可能想看看下面讨论的一些程序。
替代认证计划通常要求比传统的程度计划导致教学许可证。在大多数情况下，他们还允许教师学员在获得许可证的同时以薪水全职教练。这使得它们特别吸引那些想要教学的人，但不能全职返回学校。替代认证也是希望尝试教学的个人有吸引力的选择，并看看它是否适合他们。
国家替代认证计划
从某种意义上说，美国唯一真正的国家教师认证计划是教美国。This is because only Teach for America has the ability to place program participants in any state where TFA operates. If you apply to TFA, you can be placed anywhere. You can list multiple preferences for where you want to teach. You can also potentially be placed in a state other than the one you requested.
有少数其他替代认证程序，可在多个状态下运行。但是，其他程序使您选择只有一个状态并接收特定于该州标准的培训。ABCTE.and我教对于他们运作的多个州有一个共同的在线课程基础。但是他们需要不同的现场经验（类观察和学生教学），具体取决于计划参与者选择的区域设置。和新教师项目实际上有一个完全不同的应用程序。它还具有完全不同的培训地点，并为其八个不同的本地计划具有明显不同的课程。
State and Local Alternative Certification
许多替代认证计划实际上是一个城市。该城市学校领导学院provides alternative certification to teachers in Chicago. Other prominent city-level alternative certification programs include丹佛老师居住洛杉矶为基础的城市教师居住，和several different alternative certification programs offered in New York City。
还有一些国家级程序，尽管它们往往会聚焦。该密西西比老师军团主要在密西西比三角洲地区证明教师。威斯康星州诺达替代认证计划往往与国家的农村地区有更多工作（尽管郊区和城市展示区也是可能的）。
非大学课程的替代认证
在许多情况下,你跟从的教师培训e via alternative certification will not take place in a university. Instead, you’ll receive training from a non-school agency, usually a private company and sometimes a government office. ABCTE and iTEACH, mentioned above, are two typical examples of private, web-based alternative certification instruction. Other organizations such as The New Teacher Project offer blended (online and offline) coursework and limited partnerships with local universities that do not lead to university course credits or degrees.
Government programs such as the state of Texas’sProject Pace和Oklahoma Alternative Placement Program for Teacher Certification。Some state-sponsored programs come with legal limitations. In Arizona, for example, a teaching license gained through the state-sponsored教学实习途径认证不能连续两个以上。
在任何情况下，这样的非大学课程都包括大学课程，证书或学位等效组件在培训中。因此，通过这种课程的认证不容易转移到其他学区或州间职位。
Degree-Based Alternative Certification
Getting alternative certification and getting a teaching degree do not have to be mutually exclusive. Many alternative certification programs lead to an accredited teaching degree, or post-baccalaureate certificate from an accredited university program. In such cases, the credential you receive is as valuable as a traditional degree, in terms of its portability to new teaching jobs and locations in your future career.
上面提到的威斯康星州计划是一个有趣的案例。Norda替代认证参与者可以选择通过圣玛丽明尼苏达州圣玛丽大学获得大学课程学分和Baccalaureate证书。然而，Norda的方案的参与者也可以选择在没有得到任何大学学分的情况下完成他们的培训;第二个选项更便宜。
丹佛教师驻地和密西西比教师军团为基于学位的认证提供了更传统的方法。与许多其他学位授予的替代认证计划一样，DTR和MTC授予硕士教育对成功参与者。丹佛和密西西比州课程分别通过与丹佛大学和密西西比大学的合作伙伴提供这些研究生学位。
When a Bachelor’s, Master’s, or post-bac is earned through alternative certification, the coursework generally has a greater web-based component and more scheduling flexibility than a traditional degree would. But the end result is the same: a degree-based teaching certificate that is just as well respected as other traditional forms of certification.
