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New certification requirements in New York State

5/11/2016

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In March 2016 the New York State Board of Regents met and decided on new regulations to be upheld by all New York State teachers and teaching assistants. According to the meeting there were a few important changes that have confused a lot of people. If you read on their news website, it lists all the new information but does not compare it to the old. My intention is to do that here to the best of my ability.

Here is the text from the NY State Education website that as of this posting has yet to be updated with the new rules.
Professional Development for Certificate Holders

Professional Development requirements for holders of advanced-level certificates vary by type of certificate.

Professional: Holders of the Professional classroom teaching certificate must complete 175 hours of professional development every five years. Satisfaction of this requirement maintains the validity of the certificate. For more information on acceptable professional development activities, and how to report and record hours completed, go to Professional Development for Professional Certificate Holders.

Level III Teaching Assistant: Holders of the Level III Teaching Assistant certificate must complete 75 hours of professional development every five years. Satisfaction of this requirement maintains the validity of the certificate. For more information on acceptable professional development activities, and how to report and record hours completed, go to Professional Development for Teaching Assistant Level III Certificate.

​Permanent: Holders of the Permanent certificate do not have to meet a continuing professional development requirement. The certificate is good for life, unless revoked for cause.
As it stood before this change the major things to know were:
  • Teachers with "Professional" certificates needed to document and complete 175 hours of PD every five years.
  • Level III Teaching Assistants needed to document and complete 75 hours of PD every five years.
  • Teachers with "Permanent" certificates did not need to document anything.

Those rules have now all changed. With the adoption of Subpart 80-6 (what a descriptive name, no?), now it seems the following is in effect (with some caveats, of course):
  • Teachers with "Professional" certificates need to document and complete 100 hours of PD every five years (a reduced number)
  • Level III Teaching Assistants need to document and complete 100 hours of PD every five years (an increased number)
  • Teachers with "Permanent" certificates need to document and complete 100 hours of PD every five years (a severely increased number).
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This all comes into effect on July 1, 2016 so if anyone has not completed the old requirements they will get to bypass them and essentially get a "reset" of the clock. The five years starts again on the registrants birth month of the 2016-2017 school year (so since my birthday is in April, I will register before then and start documenting afterward). 
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