Alternative Authorization - Teacher to New Endorsement

This alternative authorization allows a local education agency to request additional endorsement for a candidate.

The person has to hold a license and this route is only for adding an endorsement.

The maximum number of years allowed to complete various options under this alternative authorization ranges from 1 to 3 years.

Supervised clinical experience or mentoring is a required component.

This alternative authorization allows a local education agency to request additional endorsement for a candidate. This authorization is valid for one (1) year and may be renewed for two (2) additional years with evidence of satisfactory progress on one (1) of the following options:

a. Option I -- An official statement of competency in a teaching area or field from the college of

education of an accredited college or university is acceptable in lieu of courses if the statement is created in consultation with the department or division in which the competency is established and is approved by the director of teacher education of the recommending college or university. Candidate has up to three years to complete the requirements.

b. Option II -- Master's degree or higher. By earning a graduate degree in a content specific area,

candidates may add an endorsement in that same content area to a valid instructional certificate. Successful completion of a one (1) year, state board approved mentoring program must be completed during the first year to maintain the endorsement.

c. Option III -- Content area assessment and mentoring. A candidate may add an endorsement by

successfully completing a state board-approved content areas assessment and a one-year, state board-approved mentoring program within the first year of authorization.

d. For all candidates moving to an initial certification in a career technical education endorsement

area, the candidate will be required to complete or have completed coursework in principles and foundations of career technical education and career technical student organizations, training in occupational analysis and curriculum design, and a minimum of two hundred (200) internship/externship hours in the career technical education endorsement area.