teacher certification

We have a lot of ABCTE information sessions coming up. These events are free and perhaps you attended one before you signed up for our program. They last about an hour and give people a chance to learn more about our program and have any questions answered in person by a member of our staff.

Black Friday is approaching and you didn’t think ABCTE was going to sit this one out, did you?

We are offering the biggest discount on our program ever! Beginning right now and running through 11:59pm this coming Monday, November 29, you can save $405 on the ABCTE Plus program! Enroll by Monday night and get it for only $1795 (or $1375 for the history program).

Select your desired area of certification from the list below to take advantage of the special offer:

Here's a quick snapshot of ABCTE's progress for fiscal year 2010, which ran from October 1, 2009 through September 30, 2010.

As you'll see in the graphic below, where it also breaks down the numbers by state, over 2,000 people enrolled in the ABCTE program during FY2010 and 868 completed it. It's important to note that the certification numbers do no match up directly with the enrollment numbers. Some of the certificates issued were to candidates who enrolled prior to FY2010, just as some of those who enrolled in FY2010 will not complete the program until sometime in FY2011.

We’ve developed three new study resources over the past few months for ABCTE candidates, designed to help you prepare even further for the Professional Teaching Knowledge (PTK) exam.

Here they are if you’re not yet familiar with them:

We've been developing new study resources over the last few months and have released three new products designed to further help candidates prepare for their exams. And we recently announced the launch of our new ABCTE Plus program, which packages these three new resources together with our standard program. And now, we have a way for current candidates to upgrade from the ABCTE Standard program to the Plus program.

We sent the following out in an email yesterday:

As we’ve written before, high need subjects and schools are the places teachers are needed most. Even during times of layoffs or budget cuts, we’ve found there are still districts looking for teachers in these areas.

Our previously mentioned letter to the editor ran in the St. Louis Post Dispatch this past weekend.

People take different steps on the path to teacher certification

The following letter from a Missouri resident appears in today's St. Louis Post Dispatch, addressing an article on ABCTE and comments it contained about our program from a University of Missouri-St.

We have submitted the following letter to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch regarding the article that ran in the paper Friday about ABCTE:

Dear Editor,

Last Friday’s article on ABCTE fails to paint a balanced picture of our teaching certification program’s progress in Missouri over the last two years.