Teacher Education — Florida Community College offers teacher preparation for students just beginning college, students already holding a bachelor’s degree, as well as in-service teachers, paraprofessionals and substitutes.

• Teach First Coast: a comprehensive alternative certification program for professionals with a bachelor’s degree looking to teach
• Recertification Courses
• Paraprofessional Training: Train to be a teacher’s aide

A.A. Degree Emphasizing Education

If you feel the calling to be a classroom teacher, you’ll get a great start with an associate in arts degree for transfer to a public university. We have a new articulation agreement with Jacksonville University, the University of North Florida and Nova Southeastern University, as well as other schools, for A.A. graduates to earn a bachelor’s degree in Education. See your advisor for details. You can also learn more at our Transfer Services page.

We also have an accelerated A.A. emphasizing elementary education which takes only four semesters to complete, with the option of day or evening classes.

Field Experience - for current education students. Part of your training will be field experience, working in a classroom in the K-12 public school system. This link will take you to important information and forms you’ll need as part of the process. Note: Most of these forms are PDF files and require the Adobe Acrobat Reader (which can be downloaded for free at Adobe.com).

Your first step to helping others — contact the Education Department:

Dr. Carole Byrd, Downtown Campus, Room A1198, 904.357.8967