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Getting Your Texas Teacher Certification
I think it’s great that you want to become a teacher in Texas it is one of the most satisfying careers that you can never have. And with that said there are some basic requirements that you need in order for you to become a teacher in Texas, so let’s go through those right now.

The first thing you’re going to need is a bachelor’s degree from an accredited university or college. Now Texas universities don’t offer a degree in education, but that’s not a problem as long as your bachelor degree is an academic major you are good to go.

Your academic major is going to give you the foundation that you need to become a teacher.

Because Texas does not offer an undergraduate degree in teaching you are going to have to take some pre-approved teacher training courses.

And you can find these programs through colleges universities, school districts, community colleges, regional service centers and other entities.

Now these approved training courses are a combination of some field work as well as curricula.

So let’s break this down and will a little bit. The curricula are the construction understanding of the foundational knowledge and skills, which put in other words, is basically the art and science of teaching.

When it comes to the fieldwork what you’re going to be doing is you’re going to be doing observation you’re going to be doing some student teaching, and the student teaching will be observed by one of your teaching mentors.

Before I go on let me get back to the degree requirements, if you’re thinking of teaching in Career or Technology, and I mean certification courses like welding or computer-aided drafting you don’t require a degree for that so that, and this is the only exemption to the rule.

Next you have to pass some tests; you have to pass a teacher certification test and these tests are going to be in the subject and the grade level you want to teach at.

So the two tests that you are going to have to pass are a Basic Skills Test and then a Subject Area Competence Assessment test.

The basic skills test is the Texas Higher Education Assessment Exam, and the Subject Area Competence test is the Exam For Certification of Educators in Texas, better known as TExES.

Okay now that we’ve gone through all that and let’s say that have acquired your Texas teacher certification what are the perks of becoming a teacher?

Well first of all as a teacher in Texas at the elementary level you can enjoy a salary on the average of ,000 per year, and if you’re a secondary teacher you can enjoy a salary on average of about ,000 year.

And here’s a statistic you are probably not aware of did you know that the average teacher in Texas makes 121% of the salary of the average worker in Texas.

Also being a teacher in Texas you are going to receive 15 weeks of vacation time every year.

And being a teacher in Texas you can get tenure, now there is a requirement for that; you need be teaching for least the three years before you eligible for tenure, but that is a great goal to shoot for because that provides lots of security.

I’ll say it once again teaching and teaching in Texas is a very rewarding and satisfying career and I think it’s a fantastic choice you decided to become a teacher.

And every student that you encounter you’re going to start changing lives and that’s a phenomenal feeling, something you can get from most careers in this world.