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NBR: Another related ? for teachers

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The post below had me thinking:

I have a 5 year prefessional license in Early Childhood Ed which expires this June.  I also have a 5 year professional license in Interevention Specialist which expires in June 2013.

I am not planning to use these to teach in a public school for at least another 5 years, probably even longer.  If you were me, would you take the classes to renew the licenses now before they expire?  Or would you wait and take the classes the year before I plan to use them?  I'm not aware of any penalty for having an expired license for a longer period of time rather then a shorter period of time... but am I wrong?

This other question will hopefully be answered in the post below too, but there is no other way to renew your license other than to teach in a district where there is an IPDC or to take college classes, right?

And also, why the heck are our licenses so damn expensive?  Does Kasich know how much we pay for them?Stick out tongue

Thank you for the advice!

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  • teacherjessteacherjess member
    My best advice is to never let a license expire. It is much harder to renew a license when you've let it lapse than it is to just continue it. To renew your license from a five-year to your next five-year, you'll need 18 CEUs, or the equivalent of two full college courses. If you let it lapse and pick it up again later in life, say in 8 years or whatever, I believe you have to take more than that to pick it back up again-- I believe it's something like 12 credits, or the equivalent of four college courses (or 36 CEUs). I could be wrong on the numbers, though. I would not let it lapse if you can avoid it. The paperwork from the state of Ohio is such a headache. I swear they make it as difficult and expensive as they can.
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  • teacherjessteacherjess member
    Also, there are a ton of ways to rack up CEUs to renew your license. DH just renewed his. He counted all his in-service hours, a technology presentation, time on a technology committee, one college grad course, one five-week physics refresher course, a video that he watched and then wrote a paper on, and mentoring time when he had a student teacher.
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  • andaileyandailey
    linzpinz - I fully agree with teacherjess's advice - I wouldn't let a license expire due to all the extra coursework necessary to renew a license after the fact. It is such a headache to renew your license - I just renewed my 5 yr. last year after receiving my Master's. And it costs $200 to renew everytime. Super annoying. Good luck!
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  • kel716kel716 member

    imageandailey:
    linzpinz - I fully agree with teacherjess's advice - I wouldn't let a license expire due to all the extra coursework necessary to renew a license after the fact. It is such a headache to renew your license - I just renewed my 5 yr. last year after receiving my Master's. And it costs $200 to renew everytime. Super annoying. Good luck!

    I completely agree.  I wouldn't let it expire.  And it actually costs more.  The classes (6 sem hours or other acceptable forms of PD) + $200 to ODE + FBI/BCI fingerprinting that has to be done every time you renew (~$70).  Cost = min $270 each time.  Add 6 additional hours for the lapse + the cost of the first license and I wouldn't want to pay that. 

     

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  • alloboscallobosc member
    All of the above are right.  Save yourself from it being a total PITA.
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