Your Future Teaching Career Is Within Reach
You’ll earn your Math 4-8 teacher certification and Master of Arts in Teaching and get paid classroom experience all at once. Talk about a win-win-win.
Get hands-on teaching experience in your first year of the program under the supervision of a master teacher at the Leadership Academy Network (LAN) in Fort Worth ISD — all while earning a salary and benefits. You will also take evening classes once a week at Texas Wesleyan to prepare you for your teacher certification exams.
In your second year, after you’ve earned your teacher certificate, you could be working as a teacher in your own classroom – earning a teacher’s salary! Pretty good deal, right? You’ll be finishing your coursework to complete your master’s degree simultaneously.
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MASTER-TEACHER TRAINING Hands-on training in the classroom under a master teacher |
FINISH WITH MASTER'S Earn a teaching certificate and master's degree in just 2 years |
EXTREMELY AFFORDABLE It costs less than $6,500 to get your master's degree in teaching |
EARN WHILE YOU LEARN Earn a salary and benefits throughout the program |
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MASTER-TEACHER TRAINING Hands-on training in the classroom under a master teacher |
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FINISH WITH MASTER'S Earn a teaching certificate and master's degree in just 2 years |
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EXTREMELY AFFORDABLE It costs less than $6,500 to get your master's degree in teaching |
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EARN WHILE YOU LEARN Earn a salary and benefits throughout the program |
Cost
You will receive an LAN Scholarship while you are enrolled in the program (both year 1 and 2). That means we can offer this program at a total cost to you of $6,312. That's right. You can get your teaching certificate and master's degree for less than $6,500!
And remember, you'll earn a salary and benefits throughout your 2-year program. What could be better than making money doing what you love while you’re in school?
Important Dates
Priority Application Deadline: March 15
Final Application Deadline: May 15
The application period for fall 2024 is now closed.
Be part of a nationally recognized program with the LAN. Apply today and get one giant step closer to taking on your new career as a teacher.
Admission Requirements
Not sure where to start? Check the requirements!
- A bachelor's degree (or anticipated graduation with a bachelor's degree by June 30) from a regionally-accredited college or university
- Earned a minimum 2.5 GPA, either cumulative or from your last 60 credit hours
- A minimum of 15 undergraduate credit hours in math
- A passing score (240 or higher) on the TX PACT Mathematics 4-8 exam or a minimum 3.0 GPA in undergraduate math classes or a passing score on the 715 TX PACT exam
- Pass a Fort Worth ISD background check
Priority Deadline: March 15
Final Deadline: May 15
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How do I apply? |
Math Requirements
Here’s how to see if you meet the math requirements or get the classes you need!
What math classes count toward the requirement?
Here are classes to help you level up your math skills and meet the requirements!
Choose Your Concentration
You’ll earn your teaching certification and a Master of Arts in Teaching with a concentration in one of the following areas:
Learn from experienced professors who are former principals, administrators and superintendents. You’ll graduate from Texas Wesleyan prepared to complete the Performance Assessment for School Leaders (PASL) and ready to take on a whole new leadership role in education.
Become a teaching leader on a struggling campus with strategies to improve student achievement, parental involvement and social and emotional development of students. With special program components that focus on leadership and ESL, you’ll learn the culturally-responsive teaching methods needed for your classroom.
About the Leadership Academy Network
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Established in February 2019, the Leadership Academy Network is a first-of-its-kind partnership between Fort Worth ISD and Texas Wesleyan University, designed to sustain rising academic performance of the district’s Leadership Academies at Forest Oak 6th Grade and Forest Oak Middle School. The Leadership Academy model is based on instructional excellence, extended learning, social-emotional support, highly qualified principals and teachers and parent and community partnerships. |
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| Established in February 2019, the Leadership Academy Network is a first-of-its-kind partnership between Fort Worth ISD and Texas Wesleyan University, designed to sustain rising academic performance of the district’s six Leadership Academies at Como Elementary, John T. White Elementary, Maude I. Logan Elementary, Mitchell Boulevard Elementary, Forest Oak 6th Grade and Forest Oak Middle School. The Leadership Academy model is based on instructional excellence, extended learning, social-emotional support, highly qualified principals and teachers and parent and community partnerships. |
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