Alabama Administrative Code › Title 290 - ALABAMA STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION › Chapter 290-3-2 - EDUCATOR CERTIFICATION › Section 290-3-2-.19 - Career And Technical Certificate To A Professional Educator Certificate

Current through Register Vol. 42, No. 9, June 28, 2024
(1)
Overview.
An individual holding a valid Master's Equivalent
			 Technical Education 4 Certificate or Sixth-Year Equivalent Technical Education
			 5 Certificate in a technical education program area or a valid Master's
			 Equivalent Health Science 3 Certificate or Sixth-Year Equivalent Health Science
			 4 Certificate may meet requirements for a Class B Secondary Professional
			 Educator Certificate in the same technical education program area or in health
			 science.
(2)
Limitations on
			 Issuance.
This approach is available only in health science and the
			 technical education program areas listed on the valid Master's Equivalent
			 Technical Education 4 Certificate or Sixth-Year Equivalent Technical Education
			 5 Certificate.
(3)
Application.
The applicant is required to submit to the Educator
			 Certification Section the current application for this approach and
			 documentation of having met all requirements as prescribed in Rule 290-3-2-.19 and on the application.
(4)
Requirements for Health Science.
All requirements must be
			 successfully completed prior to the date the application is received in the
			 Educator Certification Section.
(a)
			 Successful completion of the Alabama Special Requirements in Rule
			 290-3-2-.02(4).
(b) A valid Master's Equivalent Health
			 Science 3 Certificate or Sixth-Year Equivalent Health Science 4
			 Certificate.
(c) Verification of an
			 active Alabama license in a registered nursing, paramedical, or approved allied
			 health specialty.
(d) Verification
			 on an official transcript(s) of an earned bachelor's or higher degree in a
			 healthcare or related area from a regionally accredited senior institution. The
			 Office of Career and Technical Education of the Department must approve the
			 healthcare or related area.
1. The bachelor's
			 degree must be posted with a minimum overall GPA of at least 2.75 or the
			 master's or higher degree must be posted with a minimum overall GPA of at least
			 3.0. The overall GPA is the GPA posted on the official transcript of the degree
			 granting institution that was used as the basis for granting the
			 degree.
2. The GPA requirement does
			 not apply to an applicant holding a valid Professional Educator Certificate or
			 Professional Leadership Certificate.
(e) Verification on an official transcript of
			 earned credit, with a grade of "C" or above, for strategies for teaching
			 special needs students in inclusive settings at an Alabama institution with
			 State-approved programs. The credit must have been earned within the five years
			 prior to the date the application is received in the Educator Certification
			 Section.
(f) Verification of two
			 full scholastic years of full-time classroom teaching experience in grades 6-12
			 health science. Partial years cannot be combined to meet this requirement.
			 Experience must be verified on Supplement EXP.
(g) Verification of a current passing score
			 for the prescribed Praxis Principles of Learning and Teaching Test of the
			 Alabama Educator Certification Assessment Program (AECAP). This requirement
			 does not apply to an applicant holding a valid Professional Educator
			 Certificate or a valid Professional Leadership Certificate.