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Renewing Your Teaching Certification
How To Renew Your Nebraska Teaching Certificate
1. Apply to the Graduate College
Admission to the UNL Graduate College
You will need to make application as an unclassified graduate
student (1100 Seaton Hall, 472-2878, www.unl.edu/gradstudies).
The PIN number needed to access the NRoll or eNroll registration
system will be issued to you by the Graduate Office
once you are admitted.
2. Decide whether the Nebraska
Department of Education [ (402) 471-0739 ]
will require you to take 6 hours or 15 hours
6 credit hours is required
for:
-Currently certified teachers who within five years prior
to date of application have not taught two consecutive
years in the
same school district at least half-time in their endorsed
area(s)
- Those teachers whose certificates have expired less than
5 years
Choose six graduate hours from:
Teaching, Learning & Teacher Education (TEAC)
Educational Psychology (EDPS)
Special Education & Communication Disorders (SPED or
SLPA)
Family & Consumer Sciences (FACS)
or your endorsement area.
Human Relations Training
Requirement:
If you have not previously taken a human relations training
course, one must be included in your renewal program.
We offer TEAC 861 each semester for this purpose. This
course would be a part of (not in addition to) your 6-hour
or 15-hour program.
3. If you need to take 15
hours, you will need to contact Diane Sealock to determi
ne
which courses will be appropriate in each of the categories
15 credit hours is required
for:
-Those teachers whose certificates have expired more than
5 years
The Nebraska Department of
Education requires that you complete:
1) a course in instructional techniques
2) a practicum consisting of 100 clock
hours of contact with students in the classroom setting
3) a course which addresses current issues in education, such
as special education, gifted education,
reading and writing in the content area, and school law
4) course work directly related to the applicant's
area of endorsement
Contact Diane Sealock @ 472-8623
or dsealock1@unl.edu for
assistance in determining which
courses would be appropriate in each of the four categories.
4. Complete all required coursework
We offer appropriate classes
on-line at http://cehs.unl.edu/online/index.shtml as
well as classes that meet one
night/week on campus during fall and spring semesters and
daytime in the summer.
http://unlsched.unl.edu/nusched/index.jsp
Out-of-State Teachers:
If the Nebraska Department of Education has determined
that you need to meet the State of Nebraska's requirements
for either mainstreaming or human relations training, we
offer these classes each semester:
- Mainstreaming:
SPED 801A (Elementary) or SPED 801B (Secondary) - Human Relations Training:
TEAC 861
5. Complete the Application for the Nebraska Educator Certificate
- Apply online at: www.nde.state.ne.us/TCERT
(Note: You will need to direct payment to the NDE at the time you apply)
- Complete an Institutional Recommendation form (name and social security number only) and turn it in to Dr. Tom Wandzilak, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 104 Henzlik, P.O. Box 880371, Lincoln, NE 68588-0371. Or fax to 472-1701
6. Order a transcript
You are responsible for ordering
a UNL transcript (107 Canfield or fax to 472-8220) to
be sent to the NDE once student
teaching grades/degrees are posted.
