If I get a Doctorate in Education, can I teach at all levels?

Brock Hladik: Ask your state department of ed. It differs from starte to state.

Christopher Calcano: Theoretically, you can teach at all levels IF you meet the requirements to be certified in your state for preschool, primary, elementary, and secondary school teaching. My advice is to stop your education at the bachelors degree, get one teacher's certificate where you can do your best, and teach for three years before you seek and EdD.Working toward an EdD is very time consuming, Then qualifying for all of those areas for certificates to teach may require two or more courses for each. That may mean at least eight courses for a minimum. Then any type of teaching is available to you.There are several mitigating factors to doing that. One is public schools and the department of education in your state will want you to renew your certificates every three to five years. You will be going back and forth to college classes it may seem like forever. Two is who would ! hire a doctorate to teach at all of those levels? The salary that you would get would be the highest that they pay for teachers with twenty years experience. No school district would do that. When they hire teachers they want beginning teachers with bachelors degrees because their salaries would be the lowest when they were hired. With an Ed.D. degree, you are expected to go higher and higher with each job. You would be expected in education to become a principal, then a superintendent, then a county superintendent, then state superintendent, then the Secretary of Education in Washington, D.C. You have a lot to think over with a Ed.D. such as more responsibilities to accept and succeed at, professional organizations to join, conferences and meetings to go to, and larger and larger numbers of students to lead in the public educational system. Good luck....Show more

Nia Monopoli: No.No state allows you to teach without a credential. A doctorate does not qualify sim! ply as they are for different purposes.

Jerald Florence:! A Doctorate in Education is a research degree. It doesn't qualify you to teach. If a certification is required, you would still have to take it, just as if you had a Bachelor's or Master's degree. You could teach in a university or college, however, because there places do not require a teaching qualification, just a certain level of education.

Gertrude Darke: You'd still need a teaching certificate to teach in those states, but you can teach K-12 there as long as you don't need specific training (like most high school teachers). So probably K-8. However, you could also do that with a bachelors degree in most of those states. You could teach at a college, but only in the education department. They require a PhD in the subject you're teaching, not education.

Terrell Voltz: Well, I will give some states:VirginiaMarylandFloridaCaliforniaNew YorkWashington, D.C.And, West VirginiaThanks!!...Show more