Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 10 - Education and Culture › 145d - Standards for the Issuance of a Certificate for the Position of School Business Administrator › State Educator Certificates, Permits and Authorizations › Part III - Types of Certificates › Section 10-145d-417 - Professional educator certificate

Current through July 10, 2024
(a)
Conditions for issuance.
The professional educator certificate shall be issued to
					 any applicant when the following conditions are met, except as otherwise
					 provided in endorsement area requirements:
(1) The applicant who holds a standard or
				  permanent certificate on July 1, 1989, shall, upon application, receive a
				  professional educator certificate; or
(2) The applicant presents signed
				  recommendations from the employing agent. Such recommendations shall state that
				  while holding the provisional teaching certificate, interim educator
				  certificate, or provisional educator certificate, the applicant completed at
				  least 30 school months of successful teaching for one or more boards of
				  education or approved nonpublic schools, or for purposes of obtaining adult
				  education certification in accordance with Sections
				  10-145d-596,
				  10-145d-601
				  and
				  10-145d-606
				  of these regulations, in a cooperating eligible entity defined in Section
				  10-69
				  of the Connecticut general statutes, or for purposes of obtaining certification
				  in accordance with Section
				  10-145d-532
				  of these regulations, three years of appropriate successful experience as a
				  professional staff member of the Department; and
(3) The applicant has, except as otherwise
				  specified for particular endorsements, completed course work at an approved
				  institution or institutions, in accordance with the following:
(A) Prior to July 1, 2003, any applicant who
				  holds or held a provisional educator certificate shall have completed not fewer
				  than 30 semester hours of credit beyond the bachelor's degree. Such course work
				  need not necessarily lead to a master's degree and may include graduate or
				  undergraduate courses. Except as otherwise provided in endorsement area
				  requirements, it shall consist of:
(i) A
				  planned program at an approved institution, related directly to the subject
				  areas or grade levels of the endorsement, or in an area or areas related to the
				  teacher's ability to provide instruction effectively, or to meet locally
				  determined goals or objectives; or
(ii) An individual program which is mutually
				  determined or approved by the applicant and the employing agent of the board of
				  education and which is designed to increase the ability of the teacher to
				  improve student learning; or
(B) Prior to July 1, 2003, any applicant who
				  holds or held a 10-year provisional teaching certificate shall have completed
				  30 semester hours of credit beyond the bachelor's degree. Such course work need
				  not necessarily lead to a master's degree and may include graduate or
				  undergraduate courses. Except as otherwise provided in endorsement areas, it
				  shall consist of:
(i) A planned program at an
				  approved institution; or
(ii) An
				  individually planned program which is mutually determined or approved by the
				  applicant and the employing agent of the board of education and which is
				  designed to increase the ability of the teacher to improve student learning.
				  Such an individual program may include course work taken at one or more
				  approved institutions of higher education and may include registered in-service
				  programs sponsored by a board of education or approved nonpublic school upon
				  the approval of the joint subcommittee of the Board of Governors and the Board
				  established pursuant to Section 10-155b of the Connecticut general statutes,
				  revision of 1958, revised to January 1, 1983; or
(C) Prior to July 1, 2003, any applicant who
				  holds or held a five-year provisional teaching certificate shall have completed
				  either a master's degree or not fewer than 30 semester hours of credit beyond
				  the bachelor's degree. Such course work need not necessarily lead to a master's
				  degree and may include graduate or undergraduate courses. Except as otherwise
				  provided in endorsement areas, it shall consist of:
(i) A master's degree at an approved
				  institution; or
(ii) An
				  individually planned program consisting of at least 30 semester hours of credit
				  beyond the bachelor's degree, which includes at least 15 semester hours of
				  credit in general academic courses in addition to the credits offered for the
				  requirements for the provisional certificate. Exceptions to the requirement of
				  15 semester hours of credit in general academic courses may be granted when a
				  higher education institution or the Department determine that the applicant has
				  in the combined program of undergraduate and post-baccalaureate preparation met
				  this requirement.
(D) On
				  and after July 1, 2003, except as otherwise provided, any applicant who holds
				  or held a provional teaching or provisional educator certificate shall have
				  completed, at an approved institution, either a master's degree or at least 30
				  semester hours of graduate credit.