Florida

Earn Graduate Credits and Professional Development Credits toward your Florida License Renewal with our online self-paced professional development courses.

Florida educators must be certified to teach in our public schools and in many of our private schools. Educators include classroom teachers, school administrators, and other support professionals, such as guidance counselors and media specialists

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• Graduate Credits Option: Teach & Kids Learn (TKL) provides accredited university graduate credits courses. We provide official transcripts. and letter grades upon the successful completion of your selected course. When selecting your course, choose any of our Graduate Credit level courses from our registration page.

1 Graduate Credit = 1 Semester Credit

We always recommend that you follow any pre-approval requirements in your district before you register for courses. However, many teachers have been successful using our courses to advance on their district’s salary scale—and have typically been able to use our university/college-level course offerings.

Please contact us if you need assistance with the submission of your district approval forms, course syllabus, etc.

State Requirements:

Six (6) semester hours of college credit including at least one (1) semester hour in teaching students with disabilities (SWD) must be earned during each renewal period to renew your certificate. See the information below on Acceptable College Credit Equivalencies for Renewal, Appropriate Topics for Renewal Credit, and retaining all subjects on your certificate.

Renewal requirements must be completed during the last validity period of the Professional Certificate and prior to the expiration of the Professional Certificate. It is the responsibility of each applicant to obtain current information regarding renewal requirements from the employing school district or Bureau of Educator Certification.

The application form and appropriate fee must be submitted during the last year of the validity period of the certificate and prior to the expiration of the Professional Certificate. However, a late renewal application may be submitted after the expiration of the Professional Certificate if the following criteria are met:

• Appropriate renewal requirements, including the requirement for credit in teaching SWD, are completed prior to the expiration of the Professional Certificate, and
• Renewal application form, application fee, and an additional $30.00 late fee are submitted to the Bureau of Educator Certification prior to July 1 of the year following the expiration of the certificate.

College-level credits used for certificate renewal must be awarded by an accredited or approved institution (Word), or the American Council on Education (ACE), and must be reflected on an official transcript. You may view a list of Florida’s accredited state universities and state colleges and community colleges.

College-level credit for CLEP, DANTES Subject Standardized Test, Excelsior, other examination, life experience, or other methods must be reflected on an official transcript from an accredited or approved institution (Word), or the American Council on Education (ACE).

College remedial credit is not acceptable.

A grade of at least “C” must be earned in each college course used for renewal. A grade of “pass” or “satisfactory” is an acceptable grade.

In the event a subject is deleted from the certificate at the request of the certificate holder or due to noncompletion of renewal requirements, all requirements which are in effect when an application is submitted to add the subject to the certificate again must be completed.

For more information, visit the Florida Department of Education website.