Georgia educator certification

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Find a Georgia educator's (teacher's) certification status:

1. Go to Georgia Professional Standards Commission's Check Certification Status
2. Enter his or her first and/or last name in the appropriate boxes
3. Submit

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Instructions provided in handout dated 2012-08-23 from Principal Julie Martin:

Specifically, you have the right to request the following information about each of your child's classroom teachers:

• Whether the teacher has met the Georgia Professional Standards Commission requirements for certification for the grade level and subject areas in which the teacher provides instrucation;
• Whether the teacher is teaching under emergency or other provisional status through wich Georgia qualifications or certivication criteria have been waived;
• The college major and any graduate certification or degree held by the teacher;
• Whether the student is provided services by paraprofessionals, and if so, their qualifications.

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If you would like to receive any of the information listed above for your child's teacher, please contact Mrs. Kimberly Y. Cooper, Teacher Quality Analyst at 678-676-0349 in the Division of Human Resources. For additional information regarding the federal "highly qualified" teacher requirements and Georgia policies, please visit the Georgia Professional Standards Commission website at www.gapsc.com.