If you are seeking initial teaching certification, CTL’s Alternate Route Program can help you become a Physics or Chemistry teacher. CTL believes that supporting new teachers as they enter the profession is critical to their success. To that end, CTL’s Alternate Route Program has several unique features to support new teachers.

As compared to other programs, CTL’s Alternate Route Program is only for physics and chemistry teachers. This focus ensures deeper conversations about the content, and teaching of that content. While going through this Alternate Route program, teachers will be meeting others in the same content area.

Two courses focus on a professional learning community (PLC) that provides support throughout the first year of teaching. These PLC meetings will give teachers the chance to collaborate with other teachers also implementing CTL programs. Teachers will be able to work together to solve challenges they are having in the classroom while also planning out and discussing instruction for the following week.

Alternate route teachers will take coursework with already certified science and mathematics teachers who are seeking to deepen their teaching skills by learning the CTL teaching method. While experienced teachers will also be learning the CTL teaching methods, they will share their knowledge of good teaching practices.

CTL also has free digital content available to all teachers that are used to teach PSI courses. Districts that have adopted PSI no longer invent their own curriculum from scratch. Instead, teachers in these districts collaborate on how to modify and teach the curriculum in their classes. The focus shifts from writing curriculum to the teaching of the curriculum.

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