Educator Certification, Recertification and Preparation

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Guide to Requirements for Certification, Endorsement and Assignment of Teachers, School Service Personnel, and Administrators

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• Requirements for Certification of Teachers from Other States

• Application Procedure Summary

• Certificate Types
  

• Obtaining a First Certificate

  Certification Programs
  Traditional Approved Program
  Alternative Programs
  Entitlement Application Procedures
  Transcript Evaluation
  Applying for Transcript Evaluation
  Application Background Questions
  Certification for Persons with Foreign Credentials

• Professional Teaching Certificates

  Additional Endorsements On Special Certificates
  Special Education Information Splitting Initial Special Certificates
  Requirements for Subsequent Illinois Certificates
  Provisional Certificates

• Endorsement Of Teaching Certificates

  Endorsement through Approved Programs
  Requirements for Secondary level Endorsement Through Evaluation
  Requirements after July 1, 2005
  Middle Grades
  Endorsement Application Procedures

• Endorsement Requirements for Subjects and Requirements for Assignment

  Primary Level Endorsements
  Middle Grades Level Endorsements
  Secondary Level Endorsements
  Assignment to Teaching Positions After July 1, 2004
  Authorization to Employ Teacher in Position Otherwise Unfilled

• Testing for Certificates

  Testing for Applicants from Other States

• Teaching Certificates that Do Not Require Completion of an Approved Program

  Substitute
  Provisional Vocational
  Part Time Provisional
  Visiting International Teacher Certificate
  Transitional Bilingual Certificate
  Approval as a Bilingual Teacher or a Teacher of English as a Second Language
  Para-Professional Approval
  Approval of Educational Interpreters

• Moving from Initial to Standard

• Standard Certificate Renewal Process

• Master Teaching Certificates

• School Service Personnel Certificates

  Provisional Certificates
  School Social Workers
  School Counselors
  Interim Certification of School Counselor Interns
  School Psychologists
  School Nurses
  Non-Teaching Speech-Language Pathologists
  Interim Speech Pathologist Intern Certificate
  Supervisory Endorsement on School Service Personnel Certificates

• Administrative Certificates

  Provisional Certificates
  General Administrative
  Chief School Business Official
  Superintendent
  Director of Special Education

• Administrative Certificate Renewal Process

• Registration of Certificates

• Appendix: Endorsement Structure Beginning 7/1/04

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