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Arizona Teacher Certification
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If you have a degree from another state and would like to become certified in Arizona, Rio Salado College has courses that can help you meet Arizona Standard Elementary, Secondary, and Special Education certification requirements.

If you are working toward a teaching certificate you have three years after receiving your certificate to complete the following coursework - except if you are teaching an academic course on history, government, social studies, citizenship, law, or civics, you have one year to fulfill the requirement.

If you hold a current teaching certificate the following coursework can be used toward teaching re-certification.

Course Title Credit
POS221 Arizona Constitution 1
POS222 U.S. Constitution 2
OR
POS110* American National Government 3
* This course is accepted in lieu of U.S. Constitution at Arizona Department of Education.

For more information call (480) 517-8580.

For specific course descriptions, see our schedule

Last Modified: April 23, 2008