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11 Child Development Teaching Permit Matrix, VS. teaching credentials
California CD permits and Teaching credentials
Gloria San Jose Daims
Learning Objectives
- Explain the difference between a California Teaching Permit and a California Teaching Credential
- Identify educational requirements and State requirements to qualify for a California teaching credential and a California teaching permit
What is the difference between a Teaching Permit Matrix, VS teaching credential in California?
- Let me give you a general idea..they are both needed to teach children if you get hired by a California State funded preschool program.
- The difference between the two permits are: 1) age group that you will work with and 2) different educational requirements.to get the credential or the permit
Teaching Permit: California Preschool Teaching Permit
- The California Preschool Teaching Permit It is required for you to have if you get employment at a preschool center in California (ages 3 years old to 5 years old) receiving any subsidized funding from the State California or Federal funding.
California Teaching Credential
- The California Teaching Credential is required for you to have if you teach at any California public school from Kindergarten through High school ( Transitional Kinder and K through 12th grade).
- Also, the new Transitional Kindergarten requires the preschool teacher to have a California Teaching Credential.
- Teach California will show you step by step all the educational requirements needed to become teacher in California
- In addition, watch this video from Basics 1: Basic Requirements for Becoming a Teacher in California, to learn about the basic requirements to teach in California.
So, how do you obtain the Teaching permit and/or the Teaching Credential?
- The website Teach California will show you step by step all the educational requirements needed to become teacher in California
- In addition, watch this video from Basics 1: Basic Requirements for Becoming a Teacher in California, to learn about the basic requirements to teach in California:
California Teaching Permit
- The California teaching permit will allow you to work with preschool age children and school age after school programs at Child Development centers or after school programs in California that receive State of Federal funding.
- Private programs might or might not require you to have a teaching permit.
- The California Commission onTeaching Credentialing will show you step by step the requirements for the Teaching Permit. Yes, its exactly the same agency that will process Teaching Credentials too!
- Let’s watch the video ” An Overview of the California Child Development Permit by PEACH” to learn more about California Teaching Permits:
Let’s Practice
Type your exercises here.
- Explain what are the requirements needed to obtain a California teaching Credential
- Access the following link California Teaching Permits and share what are the teaching permits that you think you qualify now or you will be able to qualify in the near future. Describe what are the requirements for those permits which you think qualify or will qualify.
Licenses and Attributions:
- ECE SMC,(2019, March 4) “California Child Development Permit by PEACH” Publisher: YouTube https://youtu.be/7pPZj2_k1Yk License: CC BY
- Teach California, (2018, March 26h) “Requirements for Becoming a Teacher in California” Publisher: YouTube https://youtu.be/zbM3deds-KE. License: Public domain
- California Commission on Teaching Credentialing ,(2021, January 14th) “Credential Requirements” https://www.ctc.ca.gov/credentials/req-credentials