florrin...
There are 5 different certifications the are offered by the State of Maryland:
Professional Eligibility Certificate: initial certificate; valid for
5 years; issued to an applicant who meets all certification
requirements but is not employed
Standard Professional Certificate I: valid for 5 years; issued to an
applicant who meets all certification requirements and is employed by
a MD local school system
Standard Professional Certificate II: valid for 5 years; issued to an
applicant who completes the SPC 1 and submits verification of 3 years
of satisfactory professional experience; submits 6 semester hours of
acceptable credit and a professional development plan for the Advanced
Professional Certificate
Advanced Professional Certificate: valid for 5 years; issued to an
applicant who submits verification of 3 years of full-time
professional school-related experience, and a master's degree or a
minimum of 36 semester hours of post-baccalaureate course work (must
include 21 semester hours of graduate credit)
Conditional Certificate: a 2 year certificate; issued to an employed
applicant who has not met full certification requirements for a
professional certificate
To apply for the certificates, you must take and pass the following tests:
Praxis I Academic Skills Assessments consist of a reading component, a
writing component and a mathematics component.
Praxi II Content Area Assessments consist of testing the knowledge in
the content area and content pedagogy.
Information on these exams can be found at www.ets.org/praxis
Also, for Elementary, Early Childhood and Elementary Special
Education, you are required to take 12 semester hours in the following
reading content:
Processing/Acquisition of Reading Skills
Methods of Reading Instruction
Materials for Teaching Reading
Reading Assessment
Thanks for your question. If you need any additional clarification,
please let me know.
Regards,
-THV
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References:
Maryland Certification Information
http://www.fcps.org/dept/hr/hrroot/fcpshr/Certification.htm |
Request for Answer Clarification by
florrin-ga
on
28 Apr 2004 22:23 PDT
Hi THV-
"Conditional Certificate: a 2 year certificate; issued to an employed
applicant who has not met full certification requirements for a
professional certificate"
This is the type I am asking about. It talks about someone who has
"not met full certification requirements-" are there partial
requirements (beyond PRAXIS) that they require? I know in Virginia,
you have to have particular course work in your endorsement area
(elementary, math, science, horticulture, etc) to qualify for a
conditional license, but you do not have to have all the Ed.
requirements done (you have 3 years after recieving the provisional
license to obtain those). Does Maryland have similar minimum course
work requirements?
Thanks!
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