Types of licenses; dating of licenses
All licenses will be effective from July 1 in the school year in which the application is made.
The following types of licenses are available:
Collegiate Professional License. The Collegiate Professional License is a five-year, renewable license available to an individual who has satisfied all requirements for licensure, including the professional teacher's assessment (VCLA, VRA, and Praxis II Specialty Exams when applicable) prescribed by the Board of Education.
Postgraduate Professional License. The Postgraduate Professional License is a five-year, renewable license available to an individual who has qualified for the Collegiate Professional License and who holds an appropriate earned graduate degree from an accredited institution.
Technical Professional License. The Technical Professional License is a five-year, renewable license available to a person who has graduated from an accredited high school (or possesses a General Education Development Certificate); has exhibited academic proficiency, skills in literacy and communication, technical competency, and occupational experience; and has completed nine semester hours of specialized professional studies credit from an accredited college or university. The nine semester hours of professional studies course work must include human growth and development (three semester hours), curriculum and instructional procedures (three semester hours), and applications of instructional technology or classroom and behavior management (three semester hours). The Technical Professional License is issued at the recommendation of an employing educational agency in the areas of career and technical education, educational technology, and military science. Individuals seeking Military Science must have the appropriate credits issued by the United States Military. In addition to demonstrating competency in the endorsement area sought, the individual must:
- Hold a license issued by the appropriate Virginia board for those program areas requiring a license and a minimum of two years of satisfactory experience at the journeyman level or an equivalent;
- Have completed a registered apprenticeship program and two years of satisfactory experience at the journeyman level or an equivalent level in the trade; or
- Have four years of work experience at the management or supervisory level or equivalent or have a combination of four years of training and work experience at the management or supervisory level or equivalent.
Individuals holding the Technical Professional License who seek the Collegiate Professional or Postgraduate Professional License must meet the professional teacher's assessment requirement (Praxis I: Reading, Writing, and Mathematics).
Provisional License. The Provisional License is a nonrenewable license valid for a period not to exceed three years issued to an individual who has allowable deficiencies for full licensure as set forth in the Virginia Licensure Regulations for School Personnel. The individual must have a minimum of an undergraduate degree from a regionally accredited college or university (with the exception of those individuals seeking a Technical Professional License). The Provisional License, with the exception of those individuals seeking licensure through a career switcher program, will be issued for three years. Individuals must complete the requirements for the regular, five-year license within the validity period of the Provisional License
Provisional Special Education License. A Special Education Conditional License is a three-year, nonrenewable teaching license issued to an individual employed as a special education teacher in a public school or a nonpublic special education school in Virginia who does not hold the appropriate special education endorsement. The license is not applicable to individuals employed as speech pathologists. To be issued the Special Education Conditional License an individual must:
- Be employed by a Virginia public or nonpublic school and have the recommendation of the employing educational agency;
- Hold a baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university;
- Have an assigned mentor endorsed in special education; and
- Have a planned program of study in the assigned endorsement area and have completed a minimum of three to six semester hours in the core competencies of characteristics of students with disabilities and legal aspects associated with students with disabilities.
During the three years the Provisional Special Education License is valid, the individual must complete all requirements for the special education endorsement area, complete professional studies requirements, and meet Virginia's professional teacher's assessment (VCLA and VRA regionally accredited when applicable) requirement prescribed by the Board of Education.
Pupil Personnel Services License. The Pupil Personnel Services License is a five-year, renewable license available to an individual who has earned an appropriate graduate degree from a regionally accredited college or university with an endorsement for guidance counselor, school psychologist, school social worker, special education speech-language pathologist preK-12, or vocational evaluator. This license does not require teaching experience. |