Utah Admin. Code R277-301-5 - Professional Educator License Requirements
(1) The Superintendent shall issue a
professional educator license to an individual that applies for the license and
meets all requirements in this Section
R277-301-5.
(2) A professional educator license, license
area, or endorsement is valid until June 30 of the fifth school year after the
Superintendent issues or renews the license.
(3) The general requirements for a
professional educator license shall include:
(a) all general requirements for an associate
educator license under Subsection
R277-301-5(4);
(b) completion of:
(i) a bachelor's degree or higher from an
accredited institution; or
(ii)
skill certification in a specific CTE area as established by the
Superintendent;
(c) for
an individual with an early childhood, elementary, or special education license
area of concentration, completion of a literacy preparation
assessment;
(d) for an individual
with a pre-school special education license area of concentration,
demonstration of emergent literacy competencies, as defined by the
Superintendent; and
(e) one of the
following:
(i) a recommendation from a
Board-approved educator preparation program; or
(ii) a standard educator license in the area
issued by a licensing jurisdiction outside of Utah that is currently valid or
is renewable consistent with Section
53E-6-307.
(f) Notwithstanding, Subsection (c), a
license applicant in an APPEL program who has an established professional
learning plan before August 31, 2022, need not complete a literacy preparation
assessment.
(4) If an
educator preparation program makes a recommendation and the Superintendent
determines that the candidate does not meet all requirements in this rule, the
candidate may appeal as provided Subsection (12).
(5) The content knowledge requirements for a
professional educator license, license area, and endorsement shall include:
(a) all content knowledge requirements for an
associate educator license under Subsection
R277-301-4(5);
(b) demonstration of all content knowledge
competencies as established by the Superintendent; and
(c) passage of a content knowledge test
provided by the Superintendent, where required by the
Superintendent.
(6) An
applicant for a secondary or CTE content area endorsement that holds a
bachelor's degree or higher with a major in the content area from an accredited
university need not complete the requirement described in Subsection
(5)(c).
(7) The pedagogical
requirements for a professional educator license shall include demonstration of
all pedagogical competencies as established by the Superintendent.
(8) An individual holding a Utah level 1,
level 2, or level 3 educator license on January 1, 2020 meets the pedagogical
requirements described in Subsection (7).
(9) An individual holding a Utah professional
educator license and license area in early childhood education, elementary,
secondary, CTE, special education, or deaf education is considered to have met
the general teacher pedagogical competencies requirement of Subsection (7) if
applying to add any of the license areas in the subsection.
(10) An individual with an associate license
with a speech-language technician license area who completes a school-based
clinical experience meeting requirements established by the Superintendent
meets the requirements for a professional license.
(11) A license applicant who has received or
completed license preparation activities inconsistent with this rule may
present compelling information and documentation for review and approval or
denial by the Superintendent to satisfy the professional educator license
requirements.
(12) The
Superintendent shall designate a panel of at least three individuals, including
the director of an LEA-based educator preparation program and a Board licensed
educator not employed by the Board, to review an appeal and make a
recommendation to the Superintendent for the Superintendent's review and
decision described in Subsection (11).
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