T.E.A.M. Education Services
Teaching, Education, Achievement, Mastery
T.E.A.M. Education Services
Teaching, Education, Achievement, Mastery
If you already spend your days helping children with special needs learn and grow, SETSS, SEIT, and P3 work lets you build a real career on that experience. Here is the certification behind those jobs — and the path to earning it without putting your life on hold.
Agencies and schools across New York are looking for certified special education teachers. The credential they ask for is the New York State Students with Disabilities (All Grades, PreK–12) certification. With it, you will be approved to work as:
One honest note: Early Intervention (children under age 3) is not covered by this certification — it belongs to Birth–Grade 2. After you graduate, you can add the Birth–Grade 2 certification; the Adelphi master's includes the 6 graduate credits in early childhood needed to apply, and NYSED reviews your full transcript as part of that application.
Most of our students are already working in classrooms — as teachers, assistants, and therapists — and they keep working throughout the program. The Transitional B and Internship Certificate pathways exist so that your experience counts sooner: you can step into certified special education teaching after your first semester or your first year, while you finish the degree in the evenings.
Major T.E.A.M. tuition savings applied automatically to the normal Adelphi rate — saving thousands for each student. The full program is $23,800 total, compared with the $44,500 normal Adelphi rate — and you pay as you go, semester by semester.
New cohorts start in January and September.
SETSS and resource-room teachers in New York hold the Students with Disabilities (All Grades, PreK–12) certification from NYSED. You earn it by completing an approved master's program in special education and meeting New York State's requirements. The Adelphi University Special Education master's offered through T.E.A.M. leads to this certification, which is automatic for New York students upon program completion.
A P3 is an independent SETSS provider — a certified special education teacher who takes her own cases through agencies and bills for them directly, rather than working as a school employee. It is one of the most flexible ways to work in special education, and it requires the same Students with Disabilities (All Grades) certification.
Yes. The Students with Disabilities (All Grades, PreK–12) certification qualifies you to work as a SEIT — a Special Education Itinerant Teacher — with preschool children ages 3–5, as well as an ICT co-teacher at any grade and subject, and a SETSS or resource-room teacher for PreK–12.
No. Early Intervention — services for children under age 3 — is covered by the Birth–Grade 2 certification, not by Students with Disabilities (All Grades). After you graduate, you can add the Birth–Grade 2 certification. The Adelphi master's includes the 6 graduate credits in early childhood needed to apply, and NYSED reviews your full transcript as part of that application.
You do not have to wait until graduation. After your first semester, you can work as a special education teacher with a Transitional B certificate, or after your first year with the Internship Certificate — the choice is yours.
New cohorts begin in January and in September. Classes meet on Zoom on Monday evenings, 5:30–8:30 PM ET, in a separate women's program, and there are no classes during July and August.
Join us Sunday, November 8, 2026 at 8:00 PM ET — meet the team, hear how the path works, and ask your questions. Join from www.GoTeamEd.com/info.