TCL offers online and site-based graduate credit for courses through regionally accredited university partners or non-credit PD courses

Teaching Certificates

Initial, Standard, Professional

You must have recent teaching experience or college credit hours for renewal of the teaching certificate. Nebraska teaching experience is reported automatically via NSSRS system. Three options to meet the requirement for renewal:

• Submit the verification of Experience Form indicating teaching for one year within the past five years half time or more in a legally operated school system while holding or qualifying to hold a regular teaching certificate OR
• Have completed six graduate semester hours in education or your content area, within the past five years while holding or qualifying to hold a teaching certificate that has not expired
• If your certificate has expired more than five years, fifteen specific graduate semester hours in education are required within the past five years. Courses shall include:
• A course on instructional techniques
• A practicum consisting of 100 or more clock hours of contact with students in the classroom setting
• A course or courses which address current issues in education, including but not limited to special education, gifted education, reading and writing in the content area, and school law, AND
• Remaining coursework directly related to the applicant’s area of endorsement on expired certificate

Administrative Certificates

Standard, Professional

Prior to expiration or less than five years expired:

• Verification of Employer Experience form for one year, half time or more, of administrative experience, within the past five years AND
• Official transcripts indicating completion of six graduate semester hours in Educational Administration at an approved teacher education institution within five years prior to the date of application

Five or more years after expiration:

• Official transcripts indicating fifteen pre-approved graduate semester hours within five years prior to the date of application, completed at a college offering approved administrative educational program AND
• An Institutional Verification form signed by the Certification Officer at the approved teacher education institution where the pre-approved fifteen graduate semester hours were completed