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October 10, 2005
Monday Certification Q&A: The Initial Certificate
We'll include a weekly certification 'factoid' each Monday afternoon. This is just for fun, but may also serve to fill in a gap in your Illinois certification knowledge base, answer a question you've always wondered about, or point out a useful resource or website. Here we go!
Q: What is an "initial certificate"?
A: The Illinois State Board of Education website provides the following information:
Illinois has a three-tiered certification system: 1) Initial, 2) Standard and 3) Master teaching certificates. Initial teaching certificates are issued to teachers who have less than four years of teaching.Initial certificate holders, whether employed in public or nonpublic schools, are required to move from Initial to Standard certification. To do so, you must accrue four years of teaching on a valid certificate and complete one of the professional development options.
You can read more about this topic at http://isbe.net/certification/html/new_teacher.htm
Posted by n-battaglia at October 10, 2005 02:38 PM