What is the Lone Star College-CyFair Teacher Certification Program (TCP)?
The Texas State Board for Educator Certification established Lone Star College-CyFair’s Teacher Certification Program on August 1, 2002. Lone Star College-CyFair offers a high-quality teacher certification that addresses the needs of mature and motivated individuals with bachelor’s degrees interested in non-traditional routes to the teaching profession. Q: How is LSC-CyFair’s TCP different from the traditional method of preparing teachers? A: Offering teacher certification at community colleges is a new concept created in response to the critical shortage of teachers in Texas. “Current research aimed at improving the condition of teacher education has called for increasing the approaches to teacher preparation.” (National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future, 1996) LSC-CyFair’s TCP program is intensive, fast-tracked, and modular based. Classes are held on evenings, weekends and on a daytime fast-track basis to accommodate a variety of schedules. Students have the option to enter
