Certification Applications

Use this form if you are employed, but do not meet the requirements for a professional certificate, and are enrolled in a state-approved educator preparation program.

This form is used to apply for a West Virginia Teaching Certificate if you attended a regionally accredited out-of-state college or university's state approved teacher preparation program.

Use this form to apply for a teaching certificate if you have completed an approved West Virginia Board of Education program as part of the Option 3 pathway (non-college/university).

Convert a Provisional Teaching Certificate to a Professional Teaching Certificate.

The Provisional Certificate is issued to individuals who complete an alternative certification program.

Renew a Provisional Teaching Certificate if you have not met the requirements for a Professional Teaching Certificate.

Teaching certificate for individuals who have completed Option 4: West Virginia Department of Education Alternative Certification Program.

Apply to teach in an area of critical need and shortage in a West Virginia public school district by enrolling in an approved West Virginia Board of Education county-based alternative certification program.

Fill out this form to renew an Alternative Teaching Certificate if you are employed by a county and enrolled in the county’s alternative certification

Add an endorsement to your Professional Teaching, Administrative, or Student Support Certificate based on the completion of coursework at a regionally accredited college/university.

Use Form 8C if you want to add an endorsement to a valid West Virginia Professional Teaching Certificate by submitting passing scores on the West Virginia Board of Education-required content area test(s).