Effective July 15, 2007 505-2-.37 EXPERIENCE ... - GaPSC

505-2-.37 EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS FOR CERTIFICATION PURPOSES
Effective July 15, 2007
(1) Applicants for certification shall report work experience to the PSC for the following reasons:
(a) acceptable experience necessary to meet eligibility requirements for specified fields in
Technology/Career Education as outlined in PSC Rule 505-2-.39 and other appropriate field rules;
(b) acceptable experience which may be used to meet recency of study requirements as outlined in
PSC Rule 505-2-.20.
(c) acceptable experience necessary to establish eligibility for selected Permit fields, the certificate
field of Educational Leadership and the TSS endorsement, as outlined in the appropriate field rules;
(d) acceptable out-of-state experience which may be used to exempt selected Special Georgia
Requirements, as outlined in PSC Rule 505-2-.20;
(2) The PSC shall verify satisfactory experience for certification purposes. Local employing school
systems are responsible for verifying and evaluating satisfactory experience for salary purposes in
accordance with State Board of Education rules.
(3) Acceptable documentation for work experience shall include:
(a) Teaching experience as verified on the PSC Experience Verification Form, available on the PSC
web site at www.gapsc.com ;
(b) Other experience as verified in correspondence, on official organization letterhead, outlining dates
of employment, job title, job duties, and signed by the supervisor;
(c) If self-employed, copies of business or personal tax records that reflect self-employment work
experience in the field being requested.
(4) To satisfy work experience in the fields of Technology/Career Education, the applicant must have
worked for a minimum of two years in the field as outlined in the appropriate field rules.
(5) To satisfy recency of study requirements, the applicant must complete one year of out-of-state
teaching experience with a valid certificate within 5 years of the date of application. NOTE: recency may
also be met by specified course work or holding specified state or national credentials, as outlined in PSC
Rule 505-2-.20.
(6) To satisfy teaching experience for selected Permit fields, the certificate field of Educational
Leadership, the TSS endorsement and to satisfy out-of-state experience for exempting selected Special
Georgia requirements, the following criteria will be used:
(a) The applicant must hold, or have held, a certificate/license in the field in which the experience was
earned, and the experience and certificate must be from the same state/country.
(b) The applicant must have a minimum of 3 full years of acceptable, successful education
experience.
1. Only full-time experience will be accepted.
i. One year of full-time experience in a P-12 setting is defined as a minimum of 120 days working full
time in a PSC-approved educational setting, as defined in paragraph 3. below. No computations for
partial-year experience will apply.

ii. One year of full-time teaching experience at a college or university is defined as teaching 9
semester hours each semester for two consecutive semesters as a faculty member holding academic
rank. No adjunct experience will be accepted.
2. Applicants may earn 3 years of acceptable experience using any combination of full years of public
school, approved private school or approved college/university experience. For example, 2 years of
public school experience plus one year of college experience (all within 5 years of the date of application)
totals 3 years.
3. Experience may have been earned while holding a non-professional certificate.
4. Successful experience is defined as no unsatisfactory annual (or equivalent) performance
appraisals within the most-recent 3 teaching years.
(i) Acceptable experience must take place within the following settings:
(I) a U.S. public school;
(II) a U.S. private school regionally-accredited when the experience was earned;
(III) a PSC-accepted accredited college or university while employed as a faculty member holding
academic rank;
(IV) jurisdictions that have signed the NASDTEC Interstate Agreement, such as the District of
Columbia, overseas U.S. military schools, etc., as identified on the NASDTEC web site at
www.nasdtec.org;
(V) teaching in kindergarten, pre-kindergarten, or a Head Start Program, provided they are under the
legal jurisdiction of a public school board of education or are regionally/state accredited;
(VI) teaching in a school setting in a foreign country, as long as:
I. the applicant held the equivalent of a U.S. bachelor’s degree prior to the time the experience was
earned;
II. the applicant held a valid professional certificate issued by the appropriate governing body in the
field and subject taught at the time the experience was earned; and
III. the school was organized and conducted with educational curriculum similar to that found in U.S.
public schools (final decision to be made by the Professional Standards Commission).
(VII) Experience as a supply/substitute, a paraprofessional or as a member of a board of education
does NOT apply toward experience.
(7) If an applicant is a member of the military Reserve or National Guard and is called to active duty,
one full year of active duty status will be accepted as a successful year of educator experience. No more
than 2 full years of experience within the last 5 years may result from military active duty.
Authority O.C.G.A. 20-2-200