How does a person in Colorado pay for college to become a teacher?
Options for High School Students:
- High School Concurrent Enrollment: up to 48 credit hours FREE
- TREP (Teacher Recruitment Education and Preparation): up to 48 credit hours FREE
- ASCENT (Accelerating Students through Concurrent Enrollment): up to 39 credit hours FREE
Options for College and University Students
- Earn money by serving as a paraprofessional and/or substitute teacher.
- Substitutes make an average of $145 per day with a high of $186 per day.
- Paraprofessionals make an average of $18.27 per hour with a high of $22.81 per hour.
- Career Advance Colorado: up to 60 credit hours FREE
- Colorado College Opportunity Fund: $116 per credit hour for public colleges and $58 per credit hour for private colleges
- Pell Grant: For the 2023–24 award year, the maximum Pell Grant through FAFSA award is $7,395.
- CDE ERR (Colorado Department of Education Educator Recruitment and Retention): up to $10,000
- Colorado Center for Rural Education Student Teaching Stipend: $4,000
- CDHE (Colorado Department of Higher Education) Rural Teaching Fellowship: up to $10,000
- CDHE (Colorado Department of Higher Education) Student Teaching Stipend: $11,000 (semester residency) or $22,000 (year-long residency)
- CDHE (Colorado Department of Higher Education) Student Educator Test Stipend Program: costs associated with the assessment of professional competencies
- AmeriCorps, TutorCorps Reading Tutors, Math Tutors: variable living stipend
- TEACH Colorado: variable scholarships and application fee reimbursements
- Private Family Foundations: Consult with your college or university financial aid office.
For more questions: please contact robert.fulton@unco.edu
