Paraprofessional Teacher

Training Program

The Merced County Office of Education (MCOE) sponsors a Paraprofessional Teacher Training Program (PTTP) project. The project is funded through the Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CTC). It is a career ladder program designed to assist teaching paraprofessionals to attain their teaching credential. MCOE is the lead agency for a consortium of 15 school districts.

Paraprofessionals selected as participants in the PTTP are provided with various levels of support. Once accepted into the program, participants will be required to complete their credential in a timely manner. Participants repay the support they received through teaching service in local school districts.

Who qualifies?

To be considered for selection into the program you must:

• be employed by a consortium school district (see below);
• work in a classified position as a "teaching" paraprofessional; and
• have a goal of attaining a multiple-subject, single-sunject, or special education teaching credential.

If these are your goals, complete an application packet and submit it to your employing school district.

Consortium School Districts

• Atwater Elementary SD
• Delhi Unified SD
• Dos Palos-Oro Loma Joint Unified SD
• El Nido Elementary SD
• Hilmar Unified SD
• Le Grand Elementary SD
• Livingston Union SD
• Los Baños Unified SD
• McSwain Union Elementary SD
• Merced City SD
• Merced County Office of Education
• Merced River Union Elementary SD
• Merced Union High SD
• Planada Elementary SD
• Winton Elementary SD
   

Commitment

Paraprofessionals wishing to participate in this program should be willing and able to complete all of the requirements leading to a teaching credential. PTTP participants will be required to sign an agreement and commitment to complete a program leading to a teaching credential, and to teach for the district for a number of years based on the assistance received. Participants who do not complete the program must reimburse CTC for all funds received while participating in this program.

Information:

Description of the program can be found in the Brochure .

Contact info:

Coordinator, MCOE PTTP
Margaret Buchmann-Garcia
209-381-6841
mbgarcia@mcoe.org

Project Secretary
Joan Stanley
209-381-6647
Fax: 209-381-5902
jstanley@mcoe.org