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Child Development Teaching Permit Matrix, VS. teaching credentials

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    Learning Objectives

    • Explain the difference between a California Teaching Permit and a California Teaching Credential
    • Identify educational requirements and State requirements to qualify for a California teaching credential and a California teaching permit

    What is the difference between a Teaching Permit Matrix, VS teaching credential in California?

    Let me give you a general idea..they are both needed to teach children if you get hired by a California State funded preschool program. The difference between the two permits are: 1) age group that you will work with and 2) the educational requirements.

    Teaching Permit: California Preschool Teaching Permit

    The California Preschool Teaching Permit It is required for you to have if you get employment at a preschool center in California (ages 3 years old to 5 years old) receiving any subsidized funding from the State California or Federal funding.

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    California Teaching Credential

    The California Teaching Credential is required for you to have if you teach at any California public school from Kindergarten through High school ( Transitional Kinder and K through 12th grade). Also, the new Transitional Kindergarten requires the preschool teacher to have a California Teaching Credential.

    So, how do you obtain the Teaching permit and/or the Teaching Credential?

    Teach California will show you step by step all the educational requirements needed to become teacher in California

    In addition, watch this video from Basics 1: Basic Requirements for Becoming a Teacher in California, to learn about the basic requirements to teach in California:

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    California Teaching Permit

    The California teaching permit will allow you to work with preschool age children and school age after school programs at Child Development centers or after school programs in California that receive State of Federal funding.

    Private programs might or might not require you to have a teaching permit.

    The California Commission onTeaching Credentialing will show you step by step the requirements for the Teaching Permit. Yes, its exactly the same agency that will process Teaching Credentials too!

    Let’s watch the video ” An Overview of the California Child Development Permit by PEACH” to learn more about California Teaching Permits:

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    Let’s Practice

    Type your exercises here.

    • Explain what are the requirements needed to obtain a California teaching Credential
    • Access the following link California Teaching Permits and share what are the teaching permits that you think you qualify now or you will be able to qualify in the near future. Describe what are the requirements for those permits which you think qualify or will qualify.

    Licenses and Attributions:

    https://www.ctc.ca.gov/credentials/req-credentials

    This page titled Child Development Teaching Permit Matrix, VS. teaching credentials is shared under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license and was authored, remixed, and/or curated by Gloria San Jose Daims.

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