
Mississippi Teacher Professional Development
Hundreds of Mississippi teachers take Model Teaching courses every year to help them renew their teaching license, advance their salary, or simply to improve their instructional effectiveness. Learn more below about how our professional development and continuing education courses can help you today!
Professional Development Courses For Mississippi Teachers
High-quality, straightforward, and cost-effective online courses (including graduate-level) for Mississippi Teachers. Let us show you have we can help you improve your teaching effectiveness, maintain your teaching license, or advance your teaching career.
HOW OUR COURSES WORK
Mississippi Teacher License Renewal & Re-Certification Requirements
Hundreds of Mississippi teachers utilize Model Teaching courses every year to earn academic credits for license renewal. All Model Teaching university-partnered courses provide graduate-level semester credit for license renewal or salary advancement purposes. You may choose any Model Teaching university-partnered courses of interest or enroll in one of our Course Bundle Packs – the most cost-effective way to earn credits.
Model Teaching offers great options for Mississippi teachers to earn semester credits from accredited universities in order to renew or maintain their teaching certification.
Teachers with standard certification in Mississippi hold a five-year renewable certificate. These licenses must be renewed every five years with Continuing Education Units (CEUs), college coursework, or by completion of the National Board process earned during the renewal cycle of the license.
ACCEPTABLE CEUS:
Teachers with standard certification in Mississippi hold a five-year renewable certificate. These licenses must be renewed every five years with Continuing Education Units (CEUs) or college coursework or by completion of the National Board process earned during the validity period of the license.
CEUs must be obtained through an accredited CEU granting agency. Any Continuing Education Office at a college, university, or community/junior college is an accredited CEU granting agency.
Model Teaching offers courses provided through regionally accredited university partners. These institutions are accredited by several accrediting agencies. These Academic Credit University-Partnered Courses are applicable to fulfill Mississippi teacher license renewal and Professional Development requirement hours according to The Mississippi Department of Education. Model Teaching offers high-quality Non-University Partnered Professional Development Courses as well, relevant to most teaching license subject areas. All courses completed through our academic partners will include access to an official transcript from that academic institution for submission to any license-granting authority. All Non-University Partnered PD courses will include a certificate of completion from Model Teaching.
To take our Online Non-University-Partnered Professional Development Courses, we recommend you submit our Request Course Approval Form to CDE.
Salary Advancement Information for Teachers
Model Teaching partners with regionally-accredited universities across the country to provide graduate-level courses to thousands of K-12 teachers and educators every year. Generally, school districts across the country provide various salary scale advancement opportunities to teachers that often includes participation in graduate-level professional development. Our university-partnered, graduate-level courses are an excellent and cost-effective way for you to earn the continuing education academic credit you need.

PLEASE NOTE: The content provided on this page does not exempt users from their responsibility to ensure that our courses meet their state or district’s salary advancement policies or requirements. Please check with your district for details regarding your district’s salary advancement policies before enrolling in a course.
*Please refer to the Mississippi Department of Education web page for the most current information on Mississippi teacher re-certification requirements.
PLEASE NOTE: The content provided on this page is solely provided for informational purposes and does not exempt users from their responsibility to ensure that our courses meet their state’s continuing education requirements. Please check with your state certification agency for up-to-date policies for teacher certification renewal/continuing education and use our Request Course Approval form if you want to confirm use of one of our courses for your professional development, continuing education, or clock hour requirements.
