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Clarifications
Standard Certificate Holders
- These changes impact all certified teachers. Teachers
need to renew their certificates when they are up, not when they have
completed the professional development activity. (i.e. Even if a teacher
has completed all 120 CPDUs during their first two years of a five year
cycle, they do not complete the Statement of Assurance until their five
years are up.)
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- National Board Clarification:
- If you are Nationally Board Certified, you have until the end of
your 10 year certificate to complete your professional development
requirement. You will be asked to pay the fees for renewing
your standard certificates.
- If you went through National Board Process but did not obtain
the certificate, you can use the process as your professional
development activity.
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- The LPDC recommends completing this process even if teachers are
retiring. If you have further questions regarding this, please
contact the ROE at 630-682-7150.
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- Teachers can record their professional development activities at
any time into CERTS, but teachers can only submit their statement of
assurance between Sept. 1st and March 1st. in the year their
certificate expires.
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- Fee payment cannot begin until after April 1st - More information
will be posted to this site as soon as it becomes available.
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- Just a reminder that teachers whose certificates are up this year
can begin collecting activities for their next renewal cycle after
April 1st.
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Information regarding
Standard Certificate
Renewal - REVISED |
Initial Certificate Holders
- The KEY piece in being able to move from an Initial to Standard
Certificate is to have completed 4 years of full time teaching.
IF you do not have 4 years and your certificate expires this year, you
will renew your initial certificate for another 4 years. You
will receive information on this after April 1st from Human Resources.
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- The timeline for moving from and Initial to Standard Certificate
has changed again. You can submit your Statement of Assurance at
any point but you cannot request a letter verifying employment until
after May 1st. The letter verifying employment, the Application
for Teaching Certificate form (form 73-03C), the Certificate
Registration form (form 73-10), and appropriate fees can then be
submitted to the DuPage Regional Office of Education in Wheaton.
The regional office has promised to fulfill their end of this process
because of the short amount of time left to make sure you get moved
from and Initial to Standard by the end of June 30, 2005.
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- As more information becomes available, it will be posted on this
website.
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Information regarding Initial
to Standard Certification - REVISED |
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Forms needed for Initial to Standard Certificate
Holders: |
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73-03C
Teaching Certificate Form
73-10 Certificate Registration
Form |
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Directions on how to write on PDF
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Information from the ISBE
Ready to enter claims into CERTS? Select the link below and it will
take you straight to CERTS.
https://isbes2.isbe.net/Certs/Default.asp
Don't forget to check OTIS to make sure that your information is up to
date.
https://isbes1.isbe.net/otis/SecureLogin.asp?cookies=True
Just a note regarding degree information: "In the past ISBE did not
track and record Degree Majors. Now, due to NCLB requirements, we have
started gathering degree major data which allows more teachers to be
considered highly qualified. If you have a degree listed above with an
unknown major, or other inaccurate data, you can click on the "Edit Degree"
link to the right of the degree you wish to update. In most cases we already
have your transcripts on file for degrees that are required for
certification." (direct from the OTIS website under Degrees)
- An official transcript needs to be forwarded to the Regional Office of
Education in order to have the certificates "approved".
- At this point in time it is highly recommended to complete this task
but not required.
- Because of NCLB it may become required in the near future.
- Human Resources cannot forward the transcripts you have on file
with them to the Regional Office because state regulations require that
they maintain official transcripts.
Need information regarding claims you had previously submitted or to look
up certificate number? Select the old website for claim entry.
http://www.generalasp.com/recertification/default.asp
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