The information on this page pertains to educators who have completed one of the following:
- completed an alternative route program outside of Wisconsin
- received licensure directly from another state's education agency via a certificate program or equivalency process
- received licensure through a two-year institution outside of Wisconsin
- received licensure through another process outside of Wisconsin (e.g., passing a content examination)
Applicants who completed an educator preparation programs for teachers, pupil services, and/or administrators at a college or university headquartered outside the state of Wisconsin, including online colleges or universities and out-of-country (non-U.S.) colleges/universities, should apply for Wisconsin licensure via the Out-of-State pathway.
If you have completed an alternative route to licensure in another state you may complete the following pathways to Wisconsin licensure:
- License Based on Reciprocity
- Hold a current teaching license in good standing from another state
- Have taught one year with the teaching license from out-of-state
- Hold a current administrator license in good standing from another state
- Have worked one year with the administrator license from out-of-state
- Post-Baccalaureate Pathway
- Bachelor's degree
- Career changer, entering teaching
- Educator seeking additional license
- College graduate, seeking MS degree in a new content area
- Alternative Route Pathway
- Bachelor's degree, with a major in the license subject
- Career changer, entering teaching
- Educator seeking additional license in shortage area
- Seeking licensure in a shortage area in Wisconsin
- Mathematics, Science, Career and Technical Education Subjects, World Languages, Special Education, Bilingual/Bicultural and ESL; also regional shortages
- License Based on Equivalency Pathway
- Bachelor’s degree
- Three years of teaching experience in PK-12, postsecondary, and/or industry
- Major or major equivalent in content area
- May have completed alternative-route teacher preparation program in another state or a teacher preparation program in another country
- May be a teacher in a private or charter school, postsecondary education, or a workplace
- Credential evaluation by Wisconsin approved Educator Preparation Program