Missouri Laws 329.080 – Instructor trainee license, qualifications, application, fee
1. An instructor trainee shall be a licensed cosmetologist, esthetician or manicurist and shall hold a license as an instructor trainee in cosmetology, esthetics or manicuring. An applicant for a license to practice as an instructor trainee shall submit to the board the required fee and a written application on a form supplied by the board upon request that the applicant has successfully completed at least a four-year high school course of study or the equivalent, and holds a Missouri license to practice as a cosmetologist, esthetician or manicurist. Each application shall contain a statement that it is made under oath or affirmation and that its representations are true and correct to the best knowledge and belief of the person signing the application, subject to the penalties of making a false affidavit or declaration.
2. An applicant approved by the board shall be issued an instructor trainee license. The license shall be issued for a definite period needed to complete training requirements to become eligible for taking the examinations. An applicant shall be approved for an instructor trainee license only for those classified occupations for which the applicant is licensed at the time the instructor trainee application is submitted to the board.
Terms Used In Missouri Laws 329.080
- Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
- Board: the state board of cosmetology and barber examiners. See Missouri Laws 329.010
- Cosmetologist: any person who, for compensation, engages in the practice of cosmetology, as defined in subdivision (5) of this section. See Missouri Laws 329.010
- Cosmetology: includes performing or offering to engage in any acts of the classified occupations of cosmetology for compensation, which shall include:
(a) "Class CH - hairdresser" includes arranging, dressing, curling, singeing, waving, permanent waving, cleansing, cutting, bleaching, tinting, coloring or similar work upon the hair of any person by any means. See Missouri Laws 329.010
- following: when used by way of reference to any section of the statutes, mean the section next preceding or next following that in which the reference is made, unless some other section is expressly designated in the reference. See Missouri Laws 1.020
- Instructor: any person who is licensed to teach cosmetology or any practices of cosmetology pursuant to this chapter. See Missouri Laws 329.010
- Manicurist: any person who, for compensation, engages in any or all of the practices in paragraph (b) of subdivision (5) of this section. See Missouri Laws 329.010
- Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
- person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations. See Missouri Laws 1.020
- State: when applied to any of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" includes such district and territories. See Missouri Laws 1.020
- student: a person who is engaged in training within a cosmetology establishment or school, and while so training performs any of the practices of the classified occupations within this chapter under the immediate direction and supervision of a licensed cosmetologist or instructor. See Missouri Laws 329.010
- Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
- United States: includes such district and territories. See Missouri Laws 1.020
3. The instructor trainee shall be required to complete six hundred hours of instructor training within a Missouri licensed school of cosmetology consisting of a curriculum including both theory and practical training to include the following:
(1) Two hundred hours to be devoted to basic principles of student teaching to include teaching principles, lesson planning, curriculum planning and class outlines, teaching methods, teaching aids, testing and evaluation;
(2) Fifty hours of psychology as applied to cosmetology, personality and teaching, teacher evaluation, counseling, theories of learning, and speech;
(3) Fifty hours of business experience or management including classroom management, record keeping, buying and inventorying supplies, and state law; and
(4) Three hundred hours of practice teaching in both theory and practical application.
4. The six hundred hours required pursuant to subsection 3 of this section may be reduced as follows:
(1) Three years of experience as a licensed cosmetologist, esthetician, or manicurist may be substituted for three hundred hours of training. The three hundred hours will be partially reduced in proportion to experience as a licensee greater than six months but less than three; or
(2) Four and one-half college credit hours in teaching methodology, as defined by rule, may be substituted for three hundred hours of training. Applicants requesting credit shall submit to the board a certified transcript together with a course description certified by the administrating education institution as being primarily directed to teaching methodology. The three hundred hours will be partially reduced in proportion to college credit hours in teaching methodology of less than four and one-half hours; or
(3) Applicants who apply from states where the requirements are not substantially equal to those in force in Missouri at the time of application, may be eligible for the examination if they provide an affidavit verifying a current, valid instructor license in another state, territory of the United States, District of Columbia, or foreign country, state or province.