If not, you may have to do a 5-year program and add certification after you get your Bachelor’s degree

Other options include alternative certification after your degree.

Best of Luck! Good Special Education teachers are really needed nowadays!!

1) The state/county you want to teach in

2) The amount of previous schooling you’ve had

3) The amount of previous experience that you’ve had

As with any degree, a really ambitious student can graduate with a college/university bachelor’s degree in education/special education in as little as 3 years. (I’ve never heard of two years, but I suppose it is possible.)

My state allows me to teach without certification as long as I have a bachelor’s degree in any field, and am pursuing a degree in special education. This will take me a total of 7 years of University schooling. I will have a BA in a non-related field, and a Masters of Education in Special Education.

Good luck!

After raising my kids I went back to school again for special education and got a MS in special education at night over three years. Good luck – it’s the best thing I ever did.

they always turn in their papers to me with druel on them, they also make stupid one year old noises out loud out of nowhere, they also take forever to come to my desk, and i always have to program this one dinky-dink’s machine cause it keeps breaking.