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Post by justanothercoach on May 7, 2019 8:01:03 GMT -6
So what I am seeing is you don't need to be certified in Oklahoma, as long as you have more years of service than life. well, you HAVE to be working to completing your 'alt certification.' Must have your degree and have passed a subject area test. You get 3 years to complete the other two tests and the professional development hours to get your certification. from what it sounds like you can get maybe get 1 extra year if your admin knows the right people and they want to keep you around.
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Post by jmstreeter on May 7, 2019 8:18:19 GMT -6
How many emergency certifications can you receive? not sure i u understand your question What I am asking is, how many emergency certifications can a teacher receive? For instance, our coach on staff is finishing the school year on his 2nd emergency certification, can he receive a 3rd emergency cert for next school year?
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Post by justanothercoach on May 7, 2019 9:31:17 GMT -6
good question. from my understanding your only supposed to get 1. but, if your admin is willing to ask for a 2nd they usually get it. i haven't seen anyone get a 3rd.
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Post by Lebowski on May 8, 2019 8:40:11 GMT -6
2 years is the max for the same subject.
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Post by jmstreeter on May 8, 2019 8:50:56 GMT -6
2 years is the max for the same subject. Can you get another emergency certification in another subject?
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Post by Lebowski on May 8, 2019 8:51:36 GMT -6
I would think you can.
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Post by jmstreeter on May 8, 2019 9:00:09 GMT -6
So basically, you can switch subjects every 2 years to get an emergency cert and still keep your teaching job?
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Post by justanothercoach on May 8, 2019 9:31:56 GMT -6
So basically, you can switch subjects every 2 years to get an emergency cert and still keep your teaching job? i guess, your only supposed to be able to get certified in subject areas that you're degree is in. if your degree is not in that specific area you need so many college hours. but I don't know how closely they check that. i was a PE major and have some science certs also. I don't know if I have the required number of hours that they ask for. I just put down that I did. this was awhile ago too, i don't know if they even ask that anymore.
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Post by bigern809 on May 8, 2019 10:05:45 GMT -6
Sounds like Texas. You can be HQ (highly qualified) in a content area to teach it. Meaning you have enough college hours in the respective area. That's how I could potentially teach Forensics and some of the CJ classes we offer. Psychology and SOciology as well and have my cert in English.
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Post by riddog on May 8, 2019 19:46:58 GMT -6
The bad thing about the highly qualified thing is that if a school is short a teacher in a subject area, then admin sometimes looks at anyone who might be Highly Qualified to teach tha subject. Happened to me my last year. I had enough Science that I was HQ and guess what I had to teach?
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Post by bolt92 on May 9, 2019 8:20:33 GMT -6
I bet you are teaching science. You should just tell them if it is Biology that you are teaching that you are a young earth creationist and that you don't mind teaching evolution as theory as long as you can present the scientific evidence from the other side. I bet they will find someone else to teach Biology then!
I am still going through the process of getting switched from Oklahoma to Texas. Apparently as of last April, you just have to pay for the out of state Texas transfer cert and they will send you a temporary one. At the end of your first year, you send a testing exemption letter to the OSDE to fill out and send to TEA and your Texas school district verifies that you spent a probationary year in Texas, and they give you a standard cert without testing again in Texas. Keeping fingers crossed as I don't want to take any of my cert tests again.
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Post by jmstreeter on May 9, 2019 8:49:58 GMT -6
I bet you are teaching science. You should just tell them if it is Biology that you are teaching that you are a young earth creationist and that you don't mind teaching evolution as theory as long as you can present the scientific evidence from the other side. I bet they will find someone else to teach Biology then! I am still going through the process of getting switched from Oklahoma to Texas. Apparently as of last April, you just have to pay for the out of state Texas transfer cert and they will send you a temporary one. At the end of your first year, you send a testing exemption letter to the OSDE to fill out and send to TEA and your Texas school district verifies that you spent a probationary year in Texas, and they give you a standard cert without testing again in Texas. Keeping fingers crossed as I don't want to take any of my cert tests again. Is it that easy to do, well is that the process you are going thru instead of having to retake state certification test. I thought you would get a 1 year provisional and you had to get certified during your probationary year. Then my buddy who is a HC in Ft. Worth said you get a 3 year provisional. So what's the actual process for an Oklahoma teacher to get certified in the great state of Texas?
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Post by bolt92 on May 9, 2019 9:14:17 GMT -6
I haven't finished the process yet, but this is the road that I have traveled and hope to complete sometime next month.
Step 1: Be a certified Oklahoma Teacher Step 2: Create an online account with TEA Step 3: Pay $164 fee and submit your Oklahoma teaching license and all college transcript for a review of credentials and an additional $52 for your 1 year certification Step 4: Receive you temporary 1 year certificate Step 5: Teach for a year in Texas and either 1) apply for exemption of Texas tests which consists of two forms (1 to be filled out by the OSDE verifying what test you passed in Oklahoma and 1 to be filled out by you current Texas school district to verify that you taught the entire year and are in good standing) or 2) take the appropriate Texas Cert Tests Step 6: Apply for a Standard Certificate in Texas
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Post by bolt92 on May 9, 2019 9:16:36 GMT -6
Standard cert costs $78
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Post by jmstreeter on May 9, 2019 9:37:45 GMT -6
I haven't finished the process yet, but this is the road that I have traveled and hope to complete sometime next month. Step 1: Be a certified Oklahoma Teacher Step 2: Create an online account with TEA Step 3: Pay $164 fee and submit your Oklahoma teaching license and all college transcript for a review of credentials and an additional $52 for your 1 year certification Step 4: Receive you temporary 1 year certificate Step 5: Teach for a year in Texas and either 1) apply for exemption of Texas tests which consists of two forms (1 to be filled out by the OSDE verifying what test you passed in Oklahoma and 1 to be filled out by you current Texas school district to verify that you taught the entire year and are in good standing) or 2) take the appropriate Texas Cert Tests Step 6: Apply for a Standard Certificate in Texas Well I have already paid the $164 back in December of 2016 and they did a review of my credentials. So what's next?
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Post by justanothercoach on May 9, 2019 9:40:14 GMT -6
they just passed it last year. in texas they recognize reciprocity. so this is the first year that you don't have to retake certification test from out of state. my wife follows that stuff pretty close. she's from the dallas area and the move south may happen some day. so she tries to stay up to date on what we got to do if we ever make the move. i was pretty jacked because i'm not the best test taker and it's been awhile since i've taken them.
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Post by bolt92 on May 9, 2019 9:43:31 GMT -6
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Post by justanothercoach on May 9, 2019 9:48:16 GMT -6
we are still north of the border. haven't made the move yet. so we haven't done anything. probably won't for awhile. we are both in a good situation right now.
but you know how this business is. never know what happens a year from now.
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Post by bolt92 on May 9, 2019 9:58:29 GMT -6
Amen brother!
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Post by jmstreeter on May 9, 2019 10:42:47 GMT -6
Paying $164 and some additional $$ is worth it instead of having to go thru the testing phase again any day!!!!
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