Denver, CO
Colorado will offer a pathway to teacher licensure that recognizes a MACTE-accredited Montessori credential, joining eleven other states with similar pathways.
The new program, through University of Colorado Denver (CU Denver) Aspire to Teach Alternative Licensure Program, requires applicants to be employed as a “Teacher of Record” (a provisional licensure program) with a sponsoring public or private school, to show content competency via an exam, and to complete online coursework on realing, special education, and cultural and linguistic diversity.
Typical participants in the Aspire to Teach program take coursework in language, mathematics, classroom management, and lesson planning, and take part in video classroom coaching. Coursework in a MACTE-accredited Montessori certification has been accepted to meet all of these requirements, cutting the time to complete the program in half. Montessori participants will complete approximately five hours per week of asynchronous online instruction and will typically be eligible for licensure in six to twelve months.For more information, contact [email protected]
This achievement was the result of persistent collaboration among The Montessori Institute Denver, Montessori Education Center of the Rockies, Montessori Collective, and the Colorado Montessori Association.
David worked in private Montessori for more than twenty years as a parent, three-to-six year-old and adolescent teacher, administrator, writer, speaker, and advocate. In 2016 he began working with the National Center for Montessori in the Public Sector. David lives in Portland, Oregon.
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