Wilson County Schools has partnered with iteach Tennessee to provide an affordable route to the classroom through their innovative online alternative teacher certification program.  The program provides approved participants with the opportunity to begin teaching on a job-embedded teaching license once all enrollment requirements are met.  Individuals hired through the program will receive intense mentoring support and participate in online asynchronous classes.  Online courses are self-paced and may be completed in as little as four months. 

The enrollment fee for iteach is $250.00.  Our partnership with iteach allows our employees to complete their entire teacher certification program and pay only $2,800 ($3,050 with enrollment fee).  **Please note, the price listed on the iteach website is much higher than this amount.  The amount you see listed here is the amount you will pay through our partnership with iteach.

Individuals interested in the program must meet the following criteria: 

• Does not already hold an active TN teaching license (this is not an additional endorsement program). 

• Must hold a bachelor's degree from a regionally accredited university.  Check your university here:  HERE or HERE.

• Hold a bachelor’s degree or higher with a graduating GPA of 2.75 or 3.00 GPA in the last 60 hours of coursework. 

• Have a passing score on all required content assessments/Praxis tests prior to being recommended for a teaching position.  

Link to Praxis requirements for Tennessee.

Link to specific Praxis exam required for each available endorsement. 

• Agriculture Science 6-12 

• American Sign Language

• Biology 6-12 

• Business Education 6-12 

• Chemistry 6-12 

• Chinese

• Early Childhood Special Education Prek-3

• Elementary Education K-5 

• English 6-12 

• ESL PreK-12 

• Family and Consumer Sciences 6-12 

• French

• German

• Health

• History 6-12 

• Interventionist K-8 (this is a new mild/moderate SPED endorsement) 

• Interventionist 6-12 (this is a new mild/moderate SPED endorsement) 

• Japanese

• Latin

• Marketing Education 6-12 

• Math 6-12

• Math 6-10

• Middle Grades English/Language Arts 6-8 

• Middle Grades Math 6-8 

• Middle Grades Science 6-8  

• Middle Grades Social Studies 6-8 

• Music K-12

• Physics 6-12 

• Physical Education

• Spanish PreK-12 

• Speech Communication 6-12

• Theatre K-12

• Visual Arts K-12