Initial Certificate

• Completion of MEDU, CTE, or Technology Education program
• Fingerprint Clearance
• Institutional Recommendation: Contact the certificate officer in your department
• New York State Certificate Exams
• Mathematics Education: Educating All Students (EAS), Content Speciality Test (CST)
• Technology Education: Educating All Students (EAS), Content Speciality Test (CST)
• NOTE: Career and Technical Education: No Exams Required.
• Workshops:
• Dignity For All Student Act (DASA)
• Child Abuse Identification
• School Violence Intervention and Prevention

Professional Certificate

• After the Initial Certificate, three years of paid, full-time classroom teaching experience
• Mentored Experience
• Additional Education: Master's Degree
• Workshops - Child Abuse Identification, School Violence Intervention and Prevention, and Dignity for All Students Act
• Citizenship, Permanent Resident status, or a valid DACA status