Alternative Routes to Certification

ARTC offers an alternative to the traditional route to teacher certification in Delaware. Through ARTC, qualified individuals complete certification requirements while they are employed as full-time teachers, through a state-approved program of professional education course work, accompanied by intensive, school-based supervision and mentoring in lieu of student teaching.

Learn more about how to become a certified:

• Teacher of Critical Needs subjects through one of several Alternative Routes to Certification pathways:
  • Regular ARTC (all Critical Needs subjects)
  • DT3P (Math, science, English, technology/engineering, secondary special education, world languages)
  • DARE (Secondary Special Education, World Languages)
• Teacher of students with special needs through our Master’s Plus Certification Program.
• School Library/Media Specialist through our bachelor’s and master’s degree programs.
• Teacher of English Language Learner through the TESL 4+1 program.