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Certificate Information


Additional information about Michigan certification can be found at the state's Department of Education website.

From Personnel:

"Each Superintendent should have received a notice from the Department of Education about the change for renewing a provisional and advancing to a professional certificate. The change in [the] statute, which is effective July 1, 2007, requires the completion of a three (3) semester hour credit course of study in remedial reading. The text of the section [is] in the school code (MCL 380.1531 section 4). It would be wise to notify any current teacher who has a provisional certificate of the requirement that will be necessary after July 1, 2007."

  Certification Alert

The following is provided to alert you to a new law (see below) passed in April, 2006, and essential information regarding the impact for MEA members.

Essential Information

*A new law, Public Act 118 of 2006, which was passed in April 2006, requires that teachers applying for the renewal of a provisional certificate or initial issuance of a professional education certificate after July 1, 2007, must have completed a 3 credit course with appropriate field experiences in the diagnosis, remediation, and differentiation of reading instruction.

*These 3 credits must be taken during the first 6 years of employment as a classroom teacher and may be part of the teacher’s 18 semester hour planned program.

*These 3 credits are in addition to the 3 semester hours of reading for secondary teachers and 6 semester hours of reading for elementary teachers which are required for the issuance of a provisional certificate.

*If a teacher is eligible to renew a provisional certificate or advance to a professional education certificate prior to July 1, 2007, and does so, he/she will not have to meet this new mandate.

Actual Language of the Law

The Revised School Code Section 1531 (4) of the Michigan School Code 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1531).

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

(4) Except as otherwise provided in this act, the superintendent of public instruction shall only issue a teaching certificate to a person who has met the elementary or secondary, as applicable, reading credit requirements established under superintendent of public instruction rule. If a person holds a teaching certificate, then beginning July 1, 2007, notwithstanding any rule to the contrary, the superintendent of public instruction shall not renew the person's provisional teaching certificate or advance the person's certification to professional certification unless the person, during the first 6 years of his or her employment in classroom teaching, successfully completes at least a 3-credit course of study with appropriate field experiences in the diagnosis and remediation of reading disabilities and differentiated instruction. To meet this requirement, the course of study should include the following elements, as determined by the department to be appropriate for the person's certification level and endorsements: interest inventories, English language learning screening, visual and auditory discrimination tools, language expression and processing screening, phonemics, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, comprehension, spelling and writing assessment tools, and instructional strategies.

Updated: July 31, 2006

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