Please address all questions about the content of this page to:
Mathematics for Teachers Coordinator: Dr. Richard Delaware, delawarer@umkc.edu

You might want to

• earn graduate credit to
  • "advance along a Career Ladder",
  • "move on a salary schedule",
  • become "re-certified",
  • become "Highly Qualified" [to meet NCLB (No Child Left Behind) standards], or
  • meet NBPT (National Board for Professional Teaching) standards,

• work towards an eventual Master's degree in Mathematics and Statistics,
  [which is also the background you would need to teach Adjunct courses at community colleges or universities]

• just improve and deepen your own understanding of Mathematics,

OR,

You might have a Master's Degree in some area other than Mathematics, Statistics, or Applied Mathematics, etc., and
you might want to earn additional post-BA/BS degree mathematics credit hours,

• to be approved to teach AP (Advanced Placement) Mathematics courses
  
  [2005 AP Teacher Standards, p.3, 1. Content Knowledge:
  "The College Board believes AP teachers should possess at least a bachelor's degree in a content-related field or should have significant mastery of content knowledge. Preference may be given to those with an advanced degree in their subject area and/or subject area education...Because AP course work is college-level work, and because virtually all college instructors hold advanced degrees, it is the recommendation of the College Board that AP teachers hold an advanced degree."],
  OR
  
  
• to be approved as a Dual-Credit (concurrent enrollment) Lecturer in Mathematics through your local university or college,

in order, for example, to meet the criteria of standards such as the following:

• The Missouri Department of Higher Education Dual Credit Policy:
  Faculty Qualifications and Support
  "...As for any instructor of college-level courses, high school instructors of dual credit courses shall meet the requirements for faculty teaching in institutions of higher education, as stipulated for accreditation by the Higher Learning Commission. Accordingly, high school instructors teaching general education courses shall typically have a master's degree that includes substantial study (usually a minimum of 18 semester hours) appropriate to the academic field in which they are teaching.”
  OR

• The Kansas Board of Regents Postsecondary Database Appendix 6: Concurrent Enrollment, p.219:
  (4) Faculty/Instructors
  "i Faculty teaching college-level concurrent enrollment partnership (CEP) courses must attain instructional eligibility by meeting one of the following standards: (1) demonstrate possession of a masters degree with 18 credit hours in the assigned course content; or (2) demonstrate possession of a bachelors degree, with at least 24 credit hours in the assigned course content and utilize the same final examination as given in a representative section of the course taught at the institution awarding the course credit and apply the same scoring rubric for the assigned course as that used in the on-campus class. Institutions may set higher standards..."
  OR

• The NACEP (National Alliance for Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships) Statement of Standards for Faculty:
  "Faculty 1 (F1) Instructors teaching college or university courses through the CEP meet the academic requirements for faculty and instructors teaching in post-secondary institutions as stipulated by the respective academic departments."

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