WGU MA in Education

[ladylearner]

The certificate of eligibility means you can get a job in NJ. But you have to have a fully certified/ licenced teacher mentor you for 2 years at your job. As far as teaching at a CC they usually just need a masters. But getting a job as an adjunct professor can be difficult, work is usually part time and not very stable.

I have a full-time job and I would be OK being a Spanish adjunct. I would be more than OK working in a self-contained language institute at a college, which is different from an adjunct position. These programs are pretty common in colleges nowadays and some areas with large bilingual populations have bilingual programs in the colleges as well. I'm pursuing the NJ Certificate of Eligibility because I would also be OK teaching ESL and/or Spanish in an adult high school, a technical high school, a language program for parents, etc. Many of those jobs require the K-12 certification in the subject area because they're part of the NJDOE system, even though you're not teaching those grade levels.

If I needed full-time employment right now, I would definitely approach this differently.

Can you tell me if you get a job with the CE, do you have to start the rest of the alternative certification right away? And would getting a master's degree in any way satisfy that requirement? I agree this is confusing.