Educator Certification, Recertification and Preparation

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

1. Certificate Types
   
   
2. 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
     
     
3. Professional Teaching Certificates
   • Additional Endorsements On Special Certificates
   • Special Education Information Splitting Initial Special Certificates
   • Requirements for Subsequent Illinois Certificates
   • Provisional Certificates
     
     
4. 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
     
     
5. 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
     
     
6. Testing for Certificates
   • Testing for Applicants from Other States
     
     
7. 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
     
     
8. Moving from Initial to Standard Level Certificates
   
   
9. Standard Certificate Renewal Process
   
   
10. Master Teaching Certificates
    
    
11. 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
      
      
12. Administrative Certificates
    • Provisional Certificates
    • General Administrative
    • Chief School Business Official
    • Superintendent
    • Director of Special Education
      
      
13. Administrative Certificate Renewal
    
    
14. Registration of Certificates

Appendix: Endorsement Structure Beginning 7/1/04