Alternate Route to Teaching Training Program

Do you aspire to become a teacher but do not have a degree in education?
Looking for the fast-track to a new, rewarding career as an educator?

The Alternate Route to Teaching is a non-traditional teacher preparation program designed for those individuals who have earned a bachelor’s degree and wish to obtain the necessary training to become a NJ certified teacher in their degree subject area. Teacher candidates may work full time as educators while completing program requirements.

What is the motivation for our typical Alternate Route to Teaching student?

Alternate Route Teachers tend to be:

• individuals seeking a career change.
• individuals seeking to finish an incomplete education degree.
• substitute teachers who wish to teach full-time.
• recent college graduates.
• individuals seeking a new career after a period outside the workforce.
• individuals seeking a rewarding career positively impacting students in a formal education environment.

Brookdale Community College’s comprehensive teacher preparation program is regulated and approved by the New Jersey Department of Education and prepares you to confidently enter the teaching profession.

Call for Third-Party Comment

Submission Deadline: June 11, 2024

On July 10-11, Brookdale Community College will host an initial accreditation visit by the Association for Advancing Quality in Educator Preparation (AAQEP). In preparation for the visit, the AAQEP Initial Quality Review Team is soliciting public comment about the quality of educator preparation provided by Brookdale Community College. All comments must be submitted by June 11, 2024 through the AAQEP website: Submit Comment

Alternate Route to Teaching Community College (ART-CC)

Your First Step

Enroll and take our Introduction to Teaching Pre-Service course (50-Hours)

About: The fifty-hour course is entirely online and includes a combination of Zoom classes, asynchronous course assignments, 8 hours of classroom observations, analysis, and 12 hours of clinical experience.

Course objective: The program’s main goal is to give the prospective teacher an overview of the teaching profession, featuring classroom management, lesson planning, and job search strategies.

Cost: $295. Does not include textbooks.

Course Requirements: Applicants must possess a bachelor’s degree and meet state requirements.

GPA (Grade Point Average) Requirement:

• Applicants who graduated prior to September 1, 2016: 2.75 or higher
• Applicants who graduated after September 1, 2016: 3.0 or higher
• See Department of Education website for possible exceptions, like the Limited CE Pilot Program.

Next Steps

Complete the remaining 350 hours of course offerings towards your teacher certification. These six (6) courses are also entirely online and include a combination of Live Zoom classes and asynchronous course assignments. Teacher candidate must prove required employment in your CE subject area with enrollment in The NJDOE’s Provisional Teacher Program (PTP) by the third course.

*Candidates must apply for their Certificate of Eligibility through the New Jersey Department of Education (NJDOE) which requires a bachelor’s degree. NJDOE licensing requirements can be found by clicking here.

Remaining six (6) teacher preparation courses (350 hours)
Cost: $4,740* (Averages $629 per course. Does not include textbooks and Performance Measure Lab Fees)

Course Requirements: Successful completion of the 50-hour course and a Certificate of Eligibility (CE) in your subject area, employment in a public, private, or parochial school.

Intro to Teaching 50-hour Preservice course 001

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Course runs 5/11/2024 through 7/13/2024 with weekly online assignments
Three (3) mandatory remote live instructor led zoom sessions: Saturday 5/11, 6/8, 7/13

To enroll: Please contact Kristin DeRose, kderose@brookdalecc.edu to request to register for the Intro course.

The Processes of Teaching and Learning course 002

We are running two sections of the 002 process course this spring/summer.  Select one section.

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Course runs 5/11/2024 through 7/27/2024 featuring weekly online asynchronous assignments with
Five (5) Saturday Mandatory Live Zoom sessions on 5/11, 6/8, 6/22, 7/13, 7/27 at 8:00 am – 12:00 pm

To enroll: Please contact Kristin DeRose, kderose@brookdalecc.edu to request an application for the Process course.

Additional Information

To learn more about Brookdale’s Alternate Route to Teaching program, please call Karin Swan, Program Administrator at 732-224-2988 or email kswan@brookdalecc.edu.