Text Box: Candidate will be attending ACP classes and preparing for the Content TExES exam. Text Box: Begin phase 1 of program.  Candidate is automatically highly qualified due to coursework reflected on college transcript.  What constitutes highly qualified?  24 hours in Math, or 24 hours in Social Studies, or 24 hours in Science, etc.  12 of the 24 must be upper level classes. Text Box: Begin phase 1 of program.  Text Box: Candidate cannot be hired immediately as a classroom teacher.  If a school district really wants this person to teach in their district, they can place this candidate in a long-term substitute position pending the results of the content TExES exam, which will typically be taken 6-8 weeks after joining the program.  Passing this exam will make a candidate highly qualified.  The district can then make the candidate a teacher instead of a substitute and pay them a normal teacher salary.  Normally, the district will go back to the date the candidate took the test and pay them as a teacher effective the test date instead of the date they found out they passed their test.   (NOT COMMON IN LARGE DISTRICTS.) Text Box: This candidate can begin teaching immediately if hired by a school district.  They will earn a teacher salary. Text Box: Candidate will work with an ACP field based mentor and a campus based mentor.  Candidate will also be attending ACP classes and preparing for the Content TExES exam. Text Box: A Career in Teaching - ACP Text Box: Candidate will take the Content TExES exam.  Text Box: Candidate will then take the Content TExES exam. Text Box: Candidate passes Content TExES exam and then goes into phase 2 of the program (ongoing training.) Text Box: Candidate fails Content TExES exam.  The candidate continues to study and retake TExES.  Candidate can continue to teach and begin phase 2 of the ACP program. Text Box: If candidate passes Content TExES exam, they are ready to be hired as a teacher and begin phase 2 of the program, which is ongoing training.  They will be assigned mentors. Text Box: Candidate fails Content TExES exam.  The candidate may or may not be kept on in the district as a substitute teacher. Text Box: After 1 year of teaching, the candidate will take the last state exam, which is the PPR. Text Box: If the candidate was never working as a substitute teacher, the candidate continues to study on his or her own for the next retake exam.  This candidate cannot begin phase 2 until he or she has passed the Content TExES exam and has been hired as a teacher. Text Box: After 1 year of teaching, the candidate will take the last state exam, which is the PPR. Text Box: After candidate passes TExES exam and has completed 1 year of teaching, he or she will take the last state exam, which is the PPR. Text Box: If the candidates pass the PPR, they are now ready to send off for their teaching certificate and are certified to teach just like any other teacher who went the traditional route. Text Box: If the candidates pass the PPR, they are now ready to send off for their teaching certificate and are certified to teach just like any other teacher who went the traditional route. Text Box: After becoming highly qualified, candidates have 3 years to pass the Content TExES and the PPR. Text Box: After becoming highly qualified, candidates have 3 years to pass the PPR.