EducateVA Home – Career Switchers and Teaching in Virginia

A Career Switcher Program of
Virginia's Community Colleges

Bring your Passion to the Future. Become a Teacher.

Virginia’s Community Colleges offer a fast track alternative licensure program – EducateVA – a statewide initiative to address critical shortages in the teaching profession throughout the state, allowing you to bring your dream of teaching into reality.

Teaching as a second career is as wide-spread throughout the state of Virginia as our Career Switcher backgrounds. We’ve assisted professionals from engineering, medical, manufacturing and sales industries to begin their new or second career in teaching.

Whether you’re looking for a teaching position in Richmond, Hampton Roads, Danville, Harrisonburg, Northern Virginia, Roanoke Valley or Southwest Virginia, switching careers can be a rewarding experience and many times a longtime dream well accomplished.

Teach Science, Math, English or Foreign Language at the Middle or High School level, or English as a Second Language K-12, and make a difference with your experience and your degree!

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With the appropriate qualifications, EducateVA can help you become a licensed teacher in the state of Virginia, while maintaining your current job and responsibilities!

Using a combination of online and onsite instruction, you can complete the teaching certification program within 16 weeks, with six Saturdays required onsite at a nearby community college.

Hundreds of people just like you have used EducateVA’s Career Switcher program and are actively teaching or in the process of getting their Virginia teaching license.

Our resources are vast, pulling from the knowledge and experience of previous public educators and the highly qualified team available through our community colleges.

We have a proven track record and success in education, teaching, teacher education, teacher training, teaching careers, teaching jobs, teaching in Virginia, teaching as a second career, high school teaching requirements, education in Virginia, and becoming a teacher, so please contact us today for more information or to begin the process.

DO YOU QUALIFY?

___Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution

___Five (5) or more years of full time work experience

___Content area expertise, with a GPA of 2.5 or better in applicable courses

___Required assessments

___Criminal background check

___Do not currently have a Provisional License or expired Provisional License from the VDOE or a teaching license from any other state.

WHAT IS REQUIRED?

___Complete the 16-week Level One program, which includes 30 hours of classroom experience

___Teach successfully with a provisional license for one full year prior to being recommended for a full 5-year renewable teaching license

___Complete Level Two of the program during the 1-year provisional period, which includes Saturday sessions and online training