Alaska Teacher Professional Development

High-quality, straightforward, and cost-effective online courses (including graduate-level) for Alaska 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

Alaska 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 Alaska teachers to earn semester credits from accredited universities in order to renew or maintain their teaching certification.

Our Academic Credit University-Partnered Courses meet the requirements for Alaska teacher license renewal and Professional Development hours. 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. However, we encourage users to confirm their specific teaching license renewal requirements with their state or local licence-granting authority prior to enrolling.

The Alaska Department of Education & Early Development requires teacher certifications to be renewed every 5 years. Six semester or nine quarter hours of credit are required for renewal or reinstatement of a 5-year or 10-year certificate. At least three of the six semester hours or five of the nine quarter hours of the required credits must be upper division or graduate level coursework. Non-academic credits and CEUs do not satisfy the upper division coursework requirement for the renewal of a 5-year or 10-year certificate.

Only credits and CEUs completed after the issue date of the certificate being renewed or reinstated can be used to satisfy the credit requirement.

ALLOWABLE CREDIT

College/University Credit:

• College or university credit can be earned through a regionally accredited institution. Teachers must submit official transcripts.

Non-Academic Credit:

Non-academic credit is available only from the Teacher Certification Office through pre-approved professional development activities. In order to use non-academic credit, the credit must be on file with the Teacher Certification Office. To verify approval of non-academic credit, contact the Teacher Certification office at tcwebmail@alaska.gov. We recommend you use our Request Course Approval form to submit information about our non-academic partnered courses.

Our University-Partnered Courses meet the requirements for Alaska teacher license renewal and Professional Development hours. 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.

To request approval of our Non-university partnered Professional Development courses, we recommend you request approval using our Request Course Approval form. Please submit to: the Alaska Teacher Certification Office at: tcwebmail@alaska.gov.

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.