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1 | | Education, in cooperation with one or more not-for-profit |
2 | | organizations in the State that support excellence in teaching, |
3 | | which may be in partnership
with a university that offers |
4 | | 4-year baccalaureate and masters degree
programs and that is a |
5 | | recognized institution as defined in Section 21B-105 of this |
6 | | Code, may within
30 days after submission by the program |
7 | | sponsor approve
a course of study developed by the program |
8 | | sponsor that persons
in the program must successfully complete |
9 | | in order to satisfy one
criterion for issuance of an |
10 | | alternative certificate under this Section.
The Alternative |
11 | | Teacher Certification program course of study must include |
12 | | content and skills which have been approved by the State Board |
13 | | of Education,
in consultation with the State Teacher |
14 | | Certification Board, as meeting the requirement
for State |
15 | | teacher certification. |
16 | | The alternative certification program established under |
17 | | this Section shall be
known as the Alternative Teacher |
18 | | Certification program. The Alternative
Teacher Certification |
19 | | Program shall be offered by the submitting partnership,
and |
20 | | such partnership may be offered by one or more not-for-profit
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21 | | organizations in the State which support excellence in |
22 | | teaching. The program
shall be
comprised of the following 3 |
23 | | phases: (a) the first phase is the
course of study offered on |
24 | | an intensive basis in education theory,
instructional methods, |
25 | | and
practice
teaching; (b) the second phase is the person's |
26 | | assignment to a full-time
teaching position for one school |
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1 | | year; and (c) the third phase is a
comprehensive assessment of |
2 | | the person's teaching performance by school
officials and the |
3 | | partnership participants
and a recommendation by the program |
4 | | sponsor to the
State Board of Education that the person be |
5 | | issued a standard alternative
teaching certificate. Successful |
6 | | completion of the Alternative Teacher
Certification program |
7 | | shall be deemed to satisfy any other
practice or student |
8 | | teaching and subject matter requirements established by
law. |
9 | | A provisional alternative teaching certificate, valid for |
10 | | one year of
teaching
in the common schools and not renewable, |
11 | | shall be issued under this Section
21-5b to persons who at the |
12 | | time of applying for the provisional alternative
teaching |
13 | | certificate under this Section: |
14 | | (1) have graduated from an accredited college or |
15 | | university with a
bachelor's degree; |
16 | | (2) have successfully completed the first phase of the |
17 | | Alternative Teacher
Certification program as provided in |
18 | | this Section; |
19 | | (3) have passed the tests of basic skills and subject |
20 | | matter knowledge
required by Section
21-1a; and |
21 | | (4) (i) have been employed for a period of at least 5 |
22 | | years in an area
requiring application of the individual's |
23 | | education or (ii) have attained at least a cumulative grade |
24 | | average of a "B" if the individual is assigned either to a |
25 | | school district that has not met the annual measurable |
26 | | objective for highly qualified teachers required by the |
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1 | | Illinois Revised Highly Qualified Teachers (HQT) Plan or to |
2 | | a school district whose data filed with the State Board of |
3 | | Education indicates that the district's poor and minority |
4 | | students are taught by teachers who are not highly |
5 | | qualified at a higher rate than other students; however, |
6 | | this item (4)
does not apply with respect to a provisional |
7 | | alternative teaching certificate
for
teaching in schools |
8 | | situated in a school district that is located in a city
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9 | | having a
population in excess of 500,000 inhabitants. |
10 | | Assignment may be made under clause (ii) of this item (4) |
11 | | only if the district superintendent and the exclusive |
12 | | bargaining representative of the district's teachers, if |
13 | | any, jointly agree to permit the assignment.
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14 | | A person possessing a provisional alternative certificate |
15 | | under this Section
shall be treated as a regularly certified |
16 | | teacher for purposes of compensation,
benefits, and other terms |
17 | | and conditions of employment afforded teachers in the
school |
18 | | who are members of a bargaining unit represented by an |
19 | | exclusive
bargaining representative, if any. |
20 | | Until February 15, 2000, a standard alternative teaching |
21 | | certificate,
valid for 4 years for teaching
in the schools and |
22 | | renewable as provided in
Section 21-14, shall be
issued under |
23 | | this Section 21-5b to persons who first complete the |
24 | | requirements
for the provisional alternative teaching |
25 | | certificate
and who at the time of applying for a standard |
26 | | alternative teaching certificate
under this Section have |
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1 | | successfully completed the second and third phases of
the |
2 | | Alternative Teacher Certification program as provided in this |
3 | | Section.
Alternatively, beginning February 15, 2000, at the end |
4 | | of the 4-year
validity
period,
persons who were issued a |
5 | | standard alternative teaching certificate shall be
eligible, |
6 | | on
the same basis as holders of an Initial Teaching Certificate |
7 | | issued under
subsection (b) of
Section 21-2 of this Code, to |
8 | | apply for a Standard Teaching Certificate,
provided they
meet |
9 | | the requirements of
subsection (c) of Section 21-2 of this Code |
10 | | and further provided that a
person who
does not
apply for and |
11 | | receive a Standard Teaching Certificate shall be able to teach
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12 | | only in
schools situated in a school district that is located |
13 | | in a city having a
population in excess
of 500,000 inhabitants. |
14 | | Beginning February 15, 2000, persons who have completed the |
15 | | requirements for
a
standard alternative teaching certificate |
16 | | under this Section shall be issued an
Initial
Alternative |
17 | | Teaching Certificate valid for 4 years of teaching and not
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18 | | renewable. At the end of the 4-year validity period, these |
19 | | persons shall be
eligible, on the same
basis as
holders of an |
20 | | Initial Teaching Certificate issued under subsection (b) of
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21 | | Section 21-2 of
this Code, to apply for a Standard Teaching |
22 | | Certificate, provided they meet the
requirements of subsection |
23 | | (c) of Section 21-2. |
24 | | Such alternative certification program shall be |
25 | | implemented so that the first
provisional alternative teaching |
26 | | certificates issued under this Section are
effective upon the |
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1 | | commencement of the 1997-1998 academic year and the first
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2 | | standard alternative teaching certificates issued under this |
3 | | Section are
effective upon the commencement of the 1998-1999 |
4 | | academic year. |
5 | | The State Board of Education, in cooperation with the |
6 | | partnership or partnerships
establishing such Alternative |
7 | | Teacher Certification programs, shall adopt rules
and |
8 | | regulations that are consistent with this Section and that the |
9 | | State Board
of Education deems necessary to establish and |
10 | | implement the program. |
11 | | No one may be admitted to an alternative certification |
12 | | program under this Section after September 1, 2014 2013 , and |
13 | | those alternative certification candidates who are admitted on |
14 | | or before September 1, 2014 2013 must complete their coursework |
15 | | the program before January 1, 2016 2015, except that candidates |
16 | | admitted to an alternative certification program at Governors |
17 | | State University and participants in the Teacher Quality |
18 | | Partnership Grant program must be admitted on or before March |
19 | | 31, 2014, complete their coursework on or before August 31, |
20 | | 2015, and be entitled to certification on or before September |
21 | | 30, 2016 September 31, 2015 . An The alternative certification |
22 | | program at Governors State University shall provide the State |
23 | | Board of Education with the names of the candidates who will be |
24 | | eligible for certification under this exception . |
25 | | This Section is repealed on January 1, 2017 2016 . |
26 | | (Source: P.A. 97-607, eff. 8-26-11; 97-702, eff. 6-25-12; |
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1 | | 98-38, eff. 6-28-13.) |
2 | | (105 ILCS 5/21-5c) |
3 | | (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2016) |
4 | | Sec. 21-5c. Alternative route to teacher certification. |
5 | | The State Board
of Education, in consultation with the State |
6 | | Teacher Certification Board, shall
establish and implement one |
7 | | or more alternative route to teacher certification programs
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8 | | under which persons who meet the requirements of and |
9 | | successfully complete the programs
established by this Section |
10 | | shall be issued an initial teaching
certificate for teaching in |
11 | | schools in this State.
The State Board of Education may
approve |
12 | | a course of study
that persons in such programs must |
13 | | successfully complete in order to
satisfy one criterion for |
14 | | issuance of a certificate under this Section. The
Alternative |
15 | | Route to Teacher Certification programs course of study must |
16 | | include
content and skills which have been approved by the |
17 | | State Board of
Education, in consultation with the State |
18 | | Teacher Certification Board, as meeting the
requirement for |
19 | | State teacher certification. |
20 | | Programs established under this Section shall be
known as |
21 | | Alternative Route to Teacher Certification programs. The |
22 | | programs
may be offered by a university that offers 4-year |
23 | | baccalaureate and masters degree programs and that is a |
24 | | recognized institution as defined in Section 21B-105 of this |
25 | | Code, by one or more not-for-profit
organizations in the State, |
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1 | | or a combination thereof. The programs shall be comprised of |
2 | | the following 3
phases: (a) a
course of study offered on an |
3 | | intensive basis in education theory,
instructional methods, |
4 | | and
practice teaching; (b) the person's assignment to a |
5 | | full-time
teaching position for one school year, including the |
6 | | designation of a
mentor teacher to advise and assist the person |
7 | | with that
teaching assignment; and (c) a comprehensive |
8 | | assessment of the person's
teaching performance by school |
9 | | officials and program participants
and a recommendation by the |
10 | | program sponsor to the
State Board of Education that the person |
11 | | be issued an initial
teaching certificate. Successful |
12 | | completion of Alternative Route to
Teacher
Certification |
13 | | programs shall be deemed to satisfy any other
practice or |
14 | | student teaching and subject matter requirements established |
15 | | by
law. |
16 | | A provisional alternative teaching certificate, valid for |
17 | | one year of
teaching
in the common schools and not renewable, |
18 | | shall be issued under this Section
21-5c to persons who at the |
19 | | time of applying for the provisional alternative
teaching |
20 | | certificate under this Section: |
21 | | (1) have graduated from an accredited college or |
22 | | university with a
bachelor's degree; |
23 | | (2) have been employed for a period of at least 5 years |
24 | | in an area
requiring application of the individual's |
25 | | education; |
26 | | (3) have successfully completed the first phase of the |
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1 | | Alternative Teacher
Certification program as provided in |
2 | | this Section; and |
3 | | (4) have passed the tests of basic skills and subject |
4 | | matter knowledge
required by Section 21-1a. |
5 | | An initial teaching certificate, valid for teaching
in the |
6 | | common schools,
shall be
issued under Section 21-3 or 21-5 to |
7 | | persons who first complete the
requirements
for the provisional |
8 | | alternative teaching certificate
and who at the time of |
9 | | applying for an initial teaching certificate
have successfully |
10 | | completed the second and third phases of
the Alternative Route |
11 | | to Teacher Certification program as provided in this
Section. |
12 | | A person possessing a provisional alternative certificate |
13 | | or an initial
teaching certificate earned under this Section
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14 | | shall be treated as a regularly certified teacher for purposes |
15 | | of compensation,
benefits, and other terms and conditions of |
16 | | employment afforded teachers in the
school who are members of a |
17 | | bargaining unit represented by an exclusive
bargaining |
18 | | representative, if any. |
19 | | The State Board of Education may adopt rules
and |
20 | | regulations that are consistent with this Section and that the |
21 | | State Board
deems necessary to establish and implement the |
22 | | program. |
23 | | No one may be admitted to an alternative certification |
24 | | program under this Section after September 1, 2014 2013 , and |
25 | | those alternative certification candidates who are admitted on |
26 | | or before June 30, 2014 September 1, 2013 must complete their |
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1 | | coursework the program before January 1, 2016 2015, except that |
2 | | candidates admitted to an alternative certification program at |
3 | | Governors State University and participants in the Teacher |
4 | | Quality Partnership Grant program must be admitted on or before |
5 | | March 31, 2014, complete their coursework on or before August |
6 | | 31, 2015, and be entitled to certification on or before |
7 | | September 30, 2016 September 31, 2015 . An The alternative |
8 | | certification program at Governors State University shall |
9 | | provide the State Board of Education with the names of the |
10 | | candidates who will be eligible for certification under this |
11 | | exception . |
12 | | This Section is repealed on January 1, 2017 2016 . |
13 | | (Source: P.A. 97-607, eff. 8-26-11; 97-702, eff. 6-25-12; |
14 | | 98-38, eff. 6-28-13.)".
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