HF2733 - Teacher Licensing Clarification

• Board of Teaching must adopt rules by January 1, 2016, allowing applicants trained out-of-state to demonstrate qualifications through recognition of out-of-state teaching licenses, completion of state-approved teacher preparation programs, teaching experience, content knowledge, or classroom performance measures.

• Applicants with out-of-state teaching licenses can receive professional five-year teaching licenses or up to four initial professional one-year teaching licenses based on comparable content fields, grade levels, and completion of required exams and human relations preparation.

• Alternative teacher preparation program candidates receive a two-year intern teacher license (renewable for one additional year) and must have a bachelor's degree, pass board-adopted skills examinations in reading/writing/mathematics, and obtain qualifying scores on content and pedagogy exams.

• Board of Teaching must establish criteria for determining "similar content field" and "similar licensure area" to streamline licensing procedures for out-of-state trained teachers and recognize their professional credentials.

• Clarifies license types and terminology, replacing references to "temporary" licenses with "initial professional one-year teaching licenses" and "limited-term" intern licenses with standardized naming conventions.