CTLE for Professional Certificate Holders

Continuing Teacher and Leader Education (CTLE) Requirements for Classroom Teachers and School Leaders Holding a Professional Certificate and Level III Teaching Assistant Certificate Holders

NEW INFORMATION REGARDING CTLE HOURS

Information regarding TEACH Certification 5-year renewals: A TC Director contacted the TEACH Certification office recently to get information related to certification renewals and this is the response she received in case anyone else is wondering or is asked these questions:

Near the end of the Registration period, certificate holders will receive an email from NYSED prompting them to login to their TEACH account and attest to completing the 100-hour CTLE requirement, answer moral character questions, and select a new Registration status.

OTI is not currently asking teachers to submit proof of completion for the 100 CTLE hour requirement. Certificate holders should hold on to all CTLE certificates they have received. For a period of three years after they attest, OTI may require proof of completion in the event of an audit.

Please check their website’s homepage periodically for any updates

Office of Teaching Initiatives Home Page http://www.highered.nysed.gov/tcert/

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NEW as of July 1, 2016: the new regulations require CTLE certificate holders to maintain a record of completed CTLE that includes: the title of the program, total hours completed, number of hours targeting the needs of ELLs, the providing sponsor’s name (district, BOCES, teacher center, etc), attendance verification, and date/location of program. These records are to be kept for three (3) years after the 5-year cycle in which they were applied.

While members were always advised to keep their own records, now they are required to do so.

Be sure you keep paper copies of all CTLE certificates you receive from workshops and courses you complete. According to the state, teachers and teaching assistants are now responsible for maintaining their professional development hours log, including documentation. For more information, please click the following link: http://www.highered.nysed.gov/tcert/resteachers/ctle.html

Record-keeping and Reporting CTLE Hours

Districts and other approved CTLE sponsors are required to maintain records of the CTLE activities that they offered for a period of 8 years. Similarly,CTLEcertificateholdersarerequiredtomaintainrecordsof their own CTLE hours for 8 years – the 5-year registration cycle plus three additional years.

District-based CTLE activities should be included (to the extent they are known in advance) in the district Professional Development Plan (PDP) which is still required to be submitted to SED annually – see Part 100.2(dd) PDP regulations. These regulations still stipulate that school districts and BOCES are required to provide CTLE hours so that faculty and staff remain current with their profession, meet the learning needs of their students, and are able to maintain their certificates in good standing.

Districts and other approved CTLE sponsors are required to provide CTLE participants with access to a 'certificate of completion' for each CTLE activity that the participant completes. Original SED guidance was that this was to be a paper copy; updated SED guidance allows for this 'certificate of completion' to be paper or electronic.

Neither CTLE sponsors nor CTLE certificate holders are required to submit hours to SED unless they are specifically asked by SED to provide them. At the end of each 5-year registration cycle, CTLE certificate holders will attest to completing 100 CTLE hours on their TEACH accounts. SED may randomly audit both CTLE sponsors and CTLE certificate holders to ensure compliance with regulations.

The regulations governing Registration and CTLE requirements are found in Part 80.6 of Commissioner’s Regulations.