The CESA 7 Teacher Development Center (TDC) Program is a one - to - three year accelerated, performance based, intensive Alternative Licensure teacher preparation program for
emergency licensed teachers and those wanting to add a license.
Not exact matches
California, where thousands
teachers are either working with
emergency licenses or teaching outside their fields of expertise, has set up a network of alternative - certification programs in its drive to train more
teachers.
Districts are too often meeting their needs by hiring untrained educators with
emergency licenses and by assigning
teachers to work outside their subject areas, he said.
Currently, schools like ours, in an area of documented
teacher shortage, are permitted to hire
teachers with one - year
emergency licenses.
Individuals interested in seeking National Board Certification must have earned a baccalaureate degree from a regionally accredited institution, have completed three years of full - time teaching or school counseling experience and have held a valid state
license without deficiencies (not an interim or
emergency license) during the three years of employment, possess a valid five - year Virginia
license, and be employed as a public school
teacher or school counselor in a Virginia public school.
Some of the DPI's proposed changes include allowing educators 55 and older to apply for a five - year, nonrenewable
license without having to meet professional development requirements, increasing the time a substitute can be in the same assignment, expanding renewal options for
emergency licenses and expanding the pathway for
teachers to add additional
licenses based on content tests.
if state certification and
licensing requirements have been waived (is not being required at this time) for the
teacher under
emergency or temporary status;
The improvements in
teacher quality could also be a reflection of policy changes begun in 1998 to embrace alternative certification and to disallow
emergency licenses, the research surmises.
Reports indicate that part of this increase is related to potential
teachers being unable to pass a new state test, known as the Foundations of Reading Test.74 As a result of staffing issues, the Wisconsin DPI has issued an
emergency rule easing
licensing requirements and is pursuing a rule that would further ease the
licensing process and eliminate state GPA and Praxis test score requirements for
teacher prep programs.75 This increase in
teachers with alternative forms of certification may lead to future problems with
teacher retention.
While Tennessee is commended for not allowing
teachers in the classroom on an
emergency license, the state's new provisional
license is problematic in that
teachers may potentially teach for up to three years without having passed a content test.
When I returned home, I started teaching third grade on an «
emergency license» because at the time, Denver Public Schools needed
teachers who could instruct in Spanish for their Transitional Bilingual Program.
But Huffman says many Indiana
teachers are being allowed to teach special education with
emergency waivers, essentially a stopgap measure letting currently -
licensed educators cover a shortage of special education
teachers.