Professional teaching license colorado

Site Index. Families Educators Districts Communities. You are here Home. Preparing to Apply This checklist is for You Will Need A copy of the certificate verifying completion of an induction program specific to the license you wish to advance i. Assistive Communication for Every Classroom 5 Hours.

This course also shows teachers how to improve learning using various low-tech and high-tech Assistive Communication devices. It instructs teachers on how to identify and choose suitable devices and how to explore the laws promoting and supporting the use of these devices in the classroom. Teachers will also gain a clear understanding of their role in the evaluation and implementation of Assistive Communication technology in the classroom. The suggestions, ideas and templates provided in the course will help teachers confidently apply these strategies in the classroom.

Building School-wide Initiatives 5 Hours. Teachers will be introduced to a range of successful strategies to collaborate at a wider level to address learning issues faced by schools, and implement corresponding, well-designed interventions. Providing a new and fresh direction that helps teachers understand the basic principles of art and design while applying these in planning and creating bulletin boards that reinforce learning in the classroom. Bullying: Prevention and Policies for Schools 5 Hours.

The goal of this course is to help teachers understand the different aspects of bullying and to provide recommended strategies and techniques to deal with both victims and bullies. Enables teachers to help students respond effectively to verbal comments. Includes video role plays that model and demonstrate methodologies.

Child Abuse Prevention 5 Hours. Teachers will be introduced to the basics and fundamental facts of child abuse and neglect, its types, indicators and risk factors. The course primarily aims at educating teachers on the abuse, its legal implications and the legislative statutes addressing them in their role as mandatory reporters.

Classroom Collaboration 5 Hours. Explore the benefits of using teamwork as a key element in K classrooms, along with successful strategies to involve students in the various aspects of collaborative instruction. Building on a strong research base, this course empowers teachers to understand and implement effective practices of collaboration in their own classrooms.

Classroom Management for Positive Behaviors 5 Hours. As educators, we want to be able to ensure that all students have access to a positive school environment that is conducive to learning. Classroom Management for Positive Behaviors presents an instructive approach that ensures creating this environment with efficient behavioral practices and interventions in order to support academic success. This concept uses prevention to reduce new problem behaviors from occurring and eliminates the problem behaviors that already exist.

Classroom Organization for the 21st Century 5 Hours. Effective classroom organization aids teachers as they strive to make their lives and classrooms more structured and a lot less stressful. The ideas in this course present effective ways for teachers to be organized with practical steps in planning enabling teachers to avoid last minute time crunches. Discover methods for detecting students with weak cognitive skills and tools to strengthen those skills.

Teachers will receive understanding, as well as ways to apply development techniques in the classroom. Cultural Competency and Responsive Teaching 5 Hours. This cultural competency and responsiveness training helps teachers assess their own cultural lens and examine potential bias that impacts the classroom framework with equitable sensitivity to all learners across languages, genders, religions, races, cultural backgrounds, and special needs. Curriculum Development 5 Hours. Empower students to face the dynamic world around them with confidence, by implementing novel ideas in curriculum development, within classrooms.

With this framework, teachers are equipped to create powerful, yet practical plans that enable students to learn more effectively. Differentiation for Gifted Learners in the Classroom 5 Hours.

Better understand gifted and talented education by learning how to identify, instruct and assess these students. Explore related topics, issues, and resources geared towards our gifted population.

Preparing to Apply This checklist is for Individuals seeking to renew an active or expired Colorado professional teacher license Not in the right place? Qualifications: Completion of 90 contact hours six 6 semester hours of applicable professional development activities : For active licensees, applicable activities must have been completed within the seven years of your active license.

For those with expired licenses, applicable activities must be completed within the seven years immediately preceding the submission date of your application to renew. Effective June 30, extended by Colorado HB , teachers holding professional licenses will be required to complete a minimum of 10 contact hours of professional learning as follows: A minimum of one 1 contact hour related to behavioral health that is culturally responsive and trauma- and evidence-informed; and A minimum of one 1 contact hour related to increasing awareness of laws and practices pertaining to educating students with disabilities in the classroom, including but not limited to Child Find and inclusive learning environments.

English Learner Professional Learning designation - mandatory for those with an elementary, English language arts, math, science, social studies or any middle-level endorsement -- on licenses that expire on or after Sept. You may satisfy them now during this renewal process by: completion of a CDE-approved program Completing the EL matrix , aligning any completed coursework or PD activities to the required standards and elements Each element as it relates to its associated standard specifically must be addressed.

A minimum of 45 hours is required to satisfy this requirement. By submitting an application, you are verifying that you have submitted fingerprints for CDE licensure purposes , provided all requested documentation and answered all questions truthfully. Within 45 days of receipt of an application including applicable background checks , CDE will evaluate the application. Upon determination of qualification, CDE will notify the applicant and the corresponding certificate will be available for view or print in the individual's COOL account.

If for some reason CDE is not able to access all documentation in the application, the application will be deemed "incomplete" and CDE will notify the applicant via a system notification sent to the email address associated with the account and specify the information needed to complete it.

This includes notification that we have yet to receive your background checks! An applicant has 60 days from the date of this notification to cure the deficiency i.

Additional time is not granted to those who receive this notification due to background checks, and additional deficiency noticed also will need to be cured within the original day period.

Requests for reconsideration do not apply to background checks.