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Postpone Your Teaching Career

If you plan to postpone your teaching career, you still need to process your Professional Educator License after graduation.

  1. Complete the regular teacher licensure process (entitlement program, graduation, application via ELIS for an Illinois Educators Licensure) as soon as possible.
  2. Register your license online (ELIS) or in person with any Regional Office of Education (ROE).
  3. Regularly renew your registration even though you are not currently teaching.

Graduation

In order to officially graduate from Illinois State as an Education major, you must meet all requirements for ISBE entitlement. If you do not have all requirements for the ISBE licensure (such as passage of the edTPA test), you have not completed the entitlement program. We cannot, therefore, notify the ISBE that you have completed your entitlement program (ISBE regulation).

If Illinois State cannot notify the ISBE, then Illinois State cannot award you your degree or officially graduate you.

If you are unable to meet all entitlement requirements at the time you anticipated graduating Illinois, your only options are to either postpone graduation until you can meet those requirements or change your major to a noneducation major and then meet those major requirements.

Delays in License Application and Renewal

Failure to apply for your teaching license or failing to regularly renew your registration can cause delays, additional costs, loss of endorsements and/or loss of approval for your entitlement program.

The ISBE is continually revising and updating the standards for teacher licensure. Current time limits for the initial application is within 12 months from when the entitlement notification was given to the ISBE and six months from issuance of license to have it registered with an ROE.

Late to Apply

If you waited too long after completing your approved entitlement program to apply for licensure, you will need to:

  • Complete the State-approval Program Verification Form #ISBE 80-09 if it has been over one year since your graduation.

    Mail, fax, or bring in the ISBE 80-09 form (with the top section completed) to the Evaluation Services Office for verification and signatures. We will forward the form directly to Springfield and then you will need to work with your ROE to complete the application process.

    U.S. Mail:
    Campus Box 2202
    Normal, IL 61790

    Fax: (309) 438-2338

    In Person: Moulton Hall 107

  • Complete additional course work and/or skills testing to comply with the current laws and standards.

Late to Renew

If you completed your application but failed to renew your registration while you were not teaching, you will need to pay back fees and potentially take additional course work to regain your status as a certified teacher.

See the ISBE website for more information.