Site addresses licensure requirements for health education teachers.

Site addresses licensure requirements for health education teachers to earn content area endorsements.

a) Beginning July 1, 2004, no teacher may be assigned to teach a particular content area in any of grades 9 through 12 unless he or she holds a professional educator license in a teaching field and:

• 1) holds the applicable endorsement for the assignment (and, in the case of the educator license with stipulations endorsed for career and technical educator, has also completed the work experience required pursuant to subsection (c));

• 2) met the requirements of Section 1.730, 1.735, or 1.736, or their predecessor requirements, at a time when they were applicable to that assignment, as confirmed by the employing district's verification of the individual's qualifications;

• 3) meets the minimum requirements for that assignment identified in subsection (b) and has not exhausted the three-year period of eligibility available pursuant to 23 Ill. Adm. Code 25.100(m);

• 4) meets the requirements of Section 1.745, if applicable; or

• 5) is assigned pursuant to 23 Ill. Adm. Code 25.430 (Short-Term Approval for Teachers at All Grade Levels).

In accordance with Section 21B-200 of the School Code [105 ILCS 5/21B-200], teachers who hold an endorsement either in physical education or health shall be considered highly qualified if they meet the requirements stated in this Appendix D as relevant to general education assignments at the grade level of instruction and shall present evidence of meeting those requirements if requested to do so by their school districts of employment.