Paperwork:
Filing
Your
Certification
Application
- Successfully
complete all the coursework needed according to your Program of Study
and the Certification
Checklist, as determined in collaboration with your advisor.
For most people, this means you must wait until Graduation to be
eligible for certification (although there are exceptions).
- Take
the GACE I and GACE II in Library Media and achieve a passing score.
(If
not previously certified, you will need the GACE Basic as well.)
- Download
the application forms from the Georgia
Professional Standards Commission. If you are already
employed by a school system, it's best that you work through the
certification official employed by your system (although not
necessary). Your system HR person may originate the Program Recommendation Form.
(If not, Kate will do so - Step 4.)
- Send
the completed forms to Kate Character, 122 Aderhold Hall, Athens, GA,
30602, ellakate@uga.edu. It helps to include a copy of your GACE
scores along
with your application.
It can take several weeks for your papers to route their way through
the College. Once we have finished with them, they are sent straight to
the PSC.
- If
there seems to be a hold-up somewhere, contact MAF (mfitzger@uga.edu). Track
your
case
with
the PSC by logging onto the GPSC and accessing your
record.
- More
complete and detailed instructions and rules for becoming certified as
an educator in Georgia can be found at the PSC site.
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Updates 5-5-10:
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removed link to pre-2004 checklist.
4-15-09:
contact info; general update; no substantial change. 9-22-08:
shifted old checklist link of page bottom; changed contact number to
general office number.
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