Design professionals with substantial practice experience have usually amassed a wealth of acquired knowledge and lessons learned over their career. And they have the gray hair to prove it. There could be a benefit to having those professionals impart that experience onto the next generation of designers as instructors in university level landscape architecture programs. For professionals with a Bachelors degree who may be interested in this idea, how does one prepare to make the transition from practice to teaching? Most positions for teaching landscape architecture begin with a requirement of an MLA as the minimum terminal degree. But what about having this degree actually prepares one to be an effective teacher? This thesis proposes a custom MLA curriculum designed to prepare practitioners to enter academia and teach landscape architecture. The thesis utilizes a triangulation of research methodologies to arrive at a defensible curriculum model for educating a unique type of student. One who already knows how to be a landscape architect and wants to help prepare the next generation of landscape designers.