qualify for California teaching credential with DETC degree?

Can one qualify for a qualify for California teaching credential with DETC degree?

 

It doesn't look like it according to the California Teacher Credentialing website....

"Applicants must satisfy all of the following requirements for the Five-Year Preliminary Teaching Credential:
1. Complete a baccalaureate or higher degree, except in professional education, from a regionally-accredited college or university.."

http://www.ctc.ca.gov/credentials/leaflets/cl560c.pdf

 

The way I look at it, and realize that I don’t know much about the world of academics and such, is that DETC degrees are professional credentials, just like their RA counterparts. What they are not is teaching credentials, unlike their RA counterparts.

 

An RA bachelors degree (or higher degree) is also required for the CA Emergency 30 Day Substitute Teaching Permit. From memory, the wording years ago used to say only "accredited" and they didn't care about higher degrees, only the bachelors.

Dave

 

I don't know a whole lot about teaching credentials.

But I gather that there's a teacher shortage and that quite a few people who don't exactly satisfy all of the requirements are getting provisional credentials. That's generated some controversy.

So it's possible that if you have a suitable degree from a school with recognized but non-RA accreditation, and if you are willing to teach in a rough inner-city LA school for a while, you may be able to get in.

In other words, there may be back-doors.

If you have a DETC bachelors and want to teach K-12 in California, you probably need to be talking to the state education people. Tell them about your DETC degree, emphasize the DofEd/Chea recognition, and ask what you can do short of earning a duplicate degree in the same subject.

 

Here's what I wrote to the California Commission on Teacher Education:

"Applicants must satisfy all of the following requirements for the Five-Year Preliminary Teaching Credential:
1. Complete a baccalaureate or higher degree, except in professional education, from a regionally-accredited college or university.."

http://www.ctc.ca.gov/credentials/leaflets/cl560c.pdf



Perhaps this should be revised to include DETC accredited schools. I understand that "regionally-accredited" is necessary to eliminate "fake-accredited" schools but shouldn't the national accredition of DETC also be acceptable?

 

Will any state take an DETC degree for teaching? M.Ed from Calcoast?

 

I wrote to the California Commission on Teacher Education regarding accepting a DETC degree for teacher credentials. Here's the reply.<br /> <br /> The Commission can only go by the Education Code of law. It would take an act from Congress to allow this to happen. <br /> <br /> Sincerely;<br /> <br /> Ellen Smith, Credential Analyst<br /> <br /> Information Services<br /> <br /> Certification, Assignment and Waivers Division

 

While at one time that may have been possible, that is most decidedly no longer the case. Schools must be compliant with No Child Left Behind. What that means in California (and, yes, NCLB is federal) is that you must have a regionally accredited bachelor's degree and a regionally accredited teaching credential. These either must be in your subject area or you must complete examinations to prove competence.

As to a teacher shortage, perhaps in math, science, and special education, but in nothing else.


Tom Nixon