Oregon Statutes 342.136 – Preliminary teaching license, personnel service license and administrative license; renewal
(1) A preliminary teaching license, personnel service license or administrative license shall qualify its holder to accept any assignment from preprimary through grade 12 for which the holder has completed the requirements established by the rules of the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission.
Terms Used In Oregon Statutes 342.136
- Administrative license: means a license issued under ORS § 342. See Oregon Statutes 342.120
- Approved educator preparation program: means a licensure program that:
(a) Prepares persons to become educators in any grade from preprimary through grade 12;
(b) Is offered by an approved educator preparation provider; and
(c) Meets the standards of the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission, as provided by ORS § 342. See Oregon Statutes 342.120
- Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
- Teacher: includes all licensed employees in the public schools or employed by an education service district who have direct responsibility for instruction or coordination of educational programs and who are compensated for their services from public funds. See Oregon Statutes 342.120
- Teaching license: means a license issued under ORS § 342. See Oregon Statutes 342.120
(2) A preliminary teaching license, personnel service license or administrative license shall be issued on application to an otherwise qualified applicant who has completed an approved professional education program and meets such other requirements as the commission may consider necessary to maintain and improve the quality of instruction in the public schools of the state.
(3) In addition to any requirements imposed under subsections (1) and (2) of this section, an applicant for a preliminary teaching license must complete a supervised clinical practice experience. The supervised clinical practice experience:
(a) May include student teaching, internships, observations and similar experiences;
(b) Must be under the direction of:
(A) A supervisor from the approved educator preparation program in which the applicant is enrolled; and
(B) A teacher who is from the school district where the applicant is completing the supervised clinical practice experience and who:
(i) Possesses a teaching license issued by the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission;
(ii) Has been an effective teacher for three or more years, as determined under rules adopted by the commission; and
(iii) Is trained to supervise the applicant during the applicant’s supervised clinical practice experience and to work in partnership with the applicant’s supervisor from an approved educator preparation program; and
(c) Must comply with other requirements adopted by the commission by rule.
(4) A preliminary teaching license, personnel service license or administrative license may be renewed if the applicant meets the requirements established by the commission by rule.
(5) The commission shall develop a process that allows a teacher holding a preliminary teaching license to continually renew the preliminary teaching license based on the completion of requirements established by the rules of the commission if the teacher does not qualify for a professional teaching license due to lack of employment. [1997 c.383 § 4; 2003 c.525 § 1; 2013 c.286 § 8; 2015 c.279 § 1; 2015 c.647 38,39]