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THE NEEDIn March 2023, Kevin Mahnken published an article in The 74 entitled, “Amid the Pandemic, a Classical Education Boom: What if the Next Big School Trend Is 2,500 Years Old?” The article describes a movement in schools to recover classical education. This movement is occurring in some parochial schools, but especially in the growing number of independent schools.While these schools are recognizing the importance of classical education, many are lacking faculty and administrators who fully understand just what classical education is and who have the background and the skills to teach in this way.There is a growing need for teachers who are dedicated to classical education and who are properly trained to teach classical curricula.Teacher PreparationAt The Collegium

Classical education is more than a conglomeration of intellectually, spiritually, and morally.The best classical teachers are those who have experienced classical education and the personal transformation that it can achieve. The Collegium, as a classical institution, is the perfect environment for prospective teachers to Students at The Collegium acquire an intellectual preparation and a spiritual formation that give them a superb background to enter the teaching profession through a classical teacher training program.With the preparation acquired at The Collegium and an appropriate teacher training program, Collegium alumni will compete successfully for positions in classical schools, and more importantly, they will be able to transform the lives of the students they teach.They will be living exponents of the mission of The Collegium: To educate and form students, through the traditions of the Church, to restore all things in ChristT OTeacher PreparationAt The Collegium

P  Tere are a few steps to becoming an eective teacher:1. First, you will need a solid educational and spiritual formation yourself, which you will receive at e Collegium.2. Second, you will need a teaching credential. is can be attained in several ways:• state-credentialed certication programs;• graduate teacher-education programs that incorporate state certication;• recently established certication programs that are specically focused on preparing teachers to teach in classical schools.State-credentialed certicates are required to teach in public schools. ey are also imbued with secular standards that are typical in the public school system. Even some Catholic schools require teachers to be state-certied.However, several of the classical certication programs prepare Teacher PreparationAt The Collegium

C Ue Collegium has established relationships with two excellent teacher training programs. The Institute for Catholic Liberal Education sponsors a Catholic Educator Formation and Credential program that is an alternative to state teacher Foundations course and History Intensive in preparation for participating in the full program upon graduation.The Classical Learning Test program has a CLT Classical Teaching Corps for which Collegium seniors may apply. The program places graduates in classical schools and joins them with a Catholic graduate program in education. For Collegium students interested in teaching, these are excellent pathways to attain teaching positions, the necessary skills to be succesful, and the opportunity to transform the lives of young students. Contact us for more information.Edward Schaefer, president Cteachers to teach in classical schools that do not require - even reject - the various state certication standards.Teacher PreparationAt The Collegium