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CertificationMap.com was just launched as a resource for educator-hopefuls. The site is simple and clean of line (I dislike chaotic websites) and conveys the pertinent information in a zippy manner. If I were planning on pursuing a career as a teacher in the State of Washington, for instance, I would click on the Washington blob on the map (I live here, so I totally know what my state looks like) and would be shown a list of all that would be required of me education-, certification-, and red-tape-wise.
It’s a useful list to be sure. However, I can almost guarantee that I, personally, will never be implementing it as a checklist because I will sell snow cones in extremely cold underworldy sorts of places before I would be patient enough to become an educator of humans who haven’t yet reached their full adult status.
I have gallons of respect for the people who can withstand the insanity, the mayhem and the politics such that they can relay information and knowledge to our children. I can handle lots of things, but I have a strict four-kid limit (and two of them have to be my own). I can’t see ever getting a classroom population like that, so no teaching career for me.
Seriously, I don’t know how teachers do it. I dislike pandemonium, interruptions, and people telling me what to do. I would last maybe three hours before I’d launch myself out the first available window. Some people are really good at dealing with multiple crises while imparting knowledge, and always with an audience watching. Those people should teach.
More Helpful Resources:
BLS Guide: Teacher
Traditional Education Degree Programs
Online and Hybrid Education Degree Programs
U.S. Dept. of Education: Become a Teacher
Teachers Support Network: Tools and Advice
Teacher Certification Map Press Release
Posted by Alexa Harrington
Outstanding thoughts as usual Alexa. I heard about this recently too and I think it’s a useful resource for a need that has yet to be filled. A good friend of mine graduated MS in teaching a few years ago – and one of the things that hindered her career path was the fact that there was no standardization regarding the ‘redtape’ in the teaching industry. She’d had phone interviews with potential employers and find out at the end of the call that she wasn’t qualified to teach in that district. This is a helpful site for people that I, like you – have deep respect and admiration for. And also like you, I’m constantly amazed that we don’t see more of these people launching themselves out of windows. 
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