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Professional Certification: Overview

All beginning teachers and most teachers coming from out of state receive the Residency Certificate as their first teaching certificate. Within five years of reaching Provisional Status, teachers are expected to begin working toward the second-level teaching certificate, the Professional Certificate.

UW Tacoma offers teachers the opportunity to pursue a Professional Certificate with a Master of Education or a Professional Certificate only.

For a complete text on Requirements for Issuance of the Professional Teaching Certificate or Renewal of the Residency Teaching Certificate (CT 35), click here.