Conn. Agencies Regs. § 10-145d-610

Current through June 15, 2024

Section 10-145d-610 - Prior authorizations

To receive an endorsement on the basis of prior authorization, an applicant may file an application and present evidence of meeting the following requirements, in addition to meeting the assessment requirements, as appropriate:

(a) Any person who holds a secondary guidance counselor certificate may serve as a school counselor in grades five through 12;

(b) Any person who served as a health occupations instructor prior to July 1, 1989, in a vocational-technical school with a certificate endorsed for service as an instructor in licensed practical nursing, occupational subjects in vocational-technical schools (formerly skilled trades) or school nurse teaching, may continue to serve in that capacity;

(c) Any person employed continuously by one approved private special education facility prior to September 1, 1980, may not be required to hold appropriate certification so long as they remain employed in the same position by the same approved private special education facility;

(d) Any person who holds or held a certificate endorsed to serve as library-teacher, or for teaching any subject or any grade level and who served as a school library media specialist before September 1, 1978, may be eligible for endorsement for school librarymedia specialist;

(e) Any person who served as a health occupations instructor prior to July 1, 1989, under a certificate for trade and industrial occupational subjects in comprehensive high schools (formerly occupational subjects), school nurse teacher or health education, may continue to serve in that capacity;

(f) Any person who held a secondary teaching or special services certificate and served as a teacher-coordinator of cooperative work education, diversified occupations prior to July 1, 1989, may be eligible for cooperative work education endorsement in accordance with the following:

(1) The holder of a provisional teaching certificate may be eligible for endorsement of such certificate for cooperative work education; or

(2) The holder of a professional educator certificate who has completed at least 30 school months of successful teaching as a teacher-coordinator of cooperative work education may be eligible for endorsement on the professional educator certificate for cooperative work education; or

(3) The holder of a professional educator certificate who has completed less than three years of successful service as a teacher-coordinator of cooperative work education, may be eligible for issuance of a provisional educator certificate for cooperative work education.

(g) Any person who holds an elementary, secondary academic subjects, or mentally handicapped certificate, and prior to September 1, 1974, who taught children at the corresponding grade levels who are emotionally disturbed, socially maladjusted, perceptually handicapped or who have learning disabilities, may be eligible for an endorsement for comprehensive special education;

(h) Any person who, prior to July 1, 1991, served as a department chairperson, and who was not required to hold the intermediate administrator or supervisor certificate, may be eligible for endorsement for department chairperson;

(i) Any person who, on July 1, 1989, held a standard or permanent secondary academic or special subject or field teaching certificate, and who taught in an adult high school credit diploma program, may be eligible for a professional educator certificate for the adult high school credit diploma program;

(j) Any person who, on July 1, 1989, held a provisional teaching certificate for a secondary academic or special subject or field and who taught in an adult high school credit diploma program, may be eligible for a provisional educator certificate for the adult high school credit diploma program;

(k) Any person who, on July 1, 1989, held a standard or permanent certificate and who served as an assessor in an external diploma program or who taught in adult noncredit mandated programs not requiring secondary academic or special subject or field certification, may be eligible for a professional educator certificate for the external diploma program and noncredit mandated programs certificate;

(l) Any person who, on July 1, 1989, held a provisional teaching certificate and who served as an assessor in an external diploma program or who taught in adult noncredit mandated programs not requiring secondary academic or special subject or field certification, may be eligible for a provisional educator certificate for the external diploma program and noncredit mandated programs certificate;

(m) Any person who holds or held an elementary certificate or a secondary foreign language certificate who, prior to July 1, 1993, was authorized to serve as a bilingual educator, may be eligible for an endorsement for bilingual education endorsement;

(n) Any person who holds or held a secondary foreign language certificate who taught elementary foreign language under such certificate prior to July 1, 1989, may be eligible for an endorsement for foreign language instruction at the elementary level;

(o) Any person who holds an elementary or secondary certificate in English or a foreign language, who, prior to July 1, 1993, was allowed to serve as a teacher of English for speakers of other languages, may be eligible for an endorsement to serve as a teacher of English to speakers of other languages upon completion of at least three semester hours of credit in each of the following:

(1) Methods of teaching English to speakers of other languages; and

(2) Culture and intergroup relations: including awareness of cross-cultural similarities and contrasts, the nature of specific minority American and foreign cultures, multicultural education and the effects of culture on language and cognition; or

Linguistics and academic assessment of limited-English-proficient students; including testing and evaluation techniques applicable to the determination of language dominance, language proficiency, and bilingualism of limited-English-proficient students; and the development of an instructional plan appropriate to the needs of limited-English-proficient students.

(p) Notwithstanding any other provisions to the contrary, any person who holds or held a provisional teaching or provisional educator certificate endorsed for early childhood and who has successfully taught for 30 school months in a program approved by the National Academy of Early Childhood Programs may be eligible for a professional educator endorsement if the applicant meets requirements in Section 10-145d-433;

(q) Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 10-145d-423 of these Regulations, any athletic director employed by a board of education on July 31, 1998, and remaining so employed in the same position, shall not be required to hold a certificate unless such athletic director evaluates certified staff.

Conn. Agencies Regs. § 10-145d-610

Effective July 1, 1995; Amended August 6, 1998