<p>Certified?</p>
<p>Don’t teachers just have to audit a course? <a href=“College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools”>College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools;
<p>I go to a private school and almost none of our teachers are even certified to teach. (They all have college degrees- doctorates in some cases, they just don’t meet public school credentials.)</p>
<p>Like I said, my band teacher chose to teach AP Music Theory last year. I’m pretty sure all he had to do was audit the course.</p>
<p>I haven’t been able to find anything on the collegeboard website that says anything other than auditing a course…</p>
<p>I definitely could be wrong/mis-informed, but that’s all I’ve found. Maybe it’s a district requirement to be ‘certified’?</p>
<p>EDIT: I just found this on the College Board website. “There are no rigidly defined selection criteria for who can serve as an AP teacher. The College Board recommends that AP teachers have undertaken some form of professional development prior to teaching AP for the first time.” <a href=“http://professionals.collegeboard.com/k-12/assessment/ap/plan/training[/url]”>http://professionals.collegeboard.com/k-12/assessment/ap/plan/training</a></p>
<p>So it must be a district thing.</p>
<p>AND You might want to look at this to help you talk to your counselors/principals about it. <a href=“http://professionals.collegeboard.com/k-12/assessment/ap/cultivating[/url]”>http://professionals.collegeboard.com/k-12/assessment/ap/cultivating</a> It’s specifically for small rural schools.</p>