Certification
Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)
The STEM pathway is an expedited pathway for college professors with advanced degrees in Science, and Mathematics to become certified as secondary classroom teachers in New York.
The STEM pathway requires that the candidate hold an appropriate graduate degree with a graduate major in the subject of the teaching certificate sought, or in a related field approved by the department for this purpose in science or math and has two years of acceptable experience teaching in a post-secondary institution.
Transitional G certificate
The Transitional G certificate will allow an individual to teach math or one of the sciences at the secondary level without completing additional pedagogical study for two years. After two years of successful teaching experience with the district on a Transitional G certificate the teacher would be eligible for the initial certificate in that subject area.
This is a general description only. For information on requirements specific to the subject you want to teach, click on the icon below.
