Supervisory Endorsement - Special Education Requirements

Supervisory Endorsement Special Education

Students who earn the unlimited LBS1 Special Education Certificate are eligible for the supervisory endorsement on their LBS1 Certificate by adding two courses and meeting other state requirements. The two courses are:

EDL510	Administration and Organization Development of Schools
SPE561	Administration and Supervision of Programs for Exceptional Children and Adolescents.

The other state requirements are:

1. The educator must hold an LBSI unlimited certificate

2. Master's degree

3. At least two years of teaching experience

4. A minimum of eight semester hours of graduate professional education coursework which includes at least one course primarily and explicitly related to the supervision of personnel (see SPE561 above), and one course primarily and explicitly related to the administration and organization of schools (see EDL510 above).

Director of Special Education Endorsement

Administrators can add the Director of Special Education endorsement to existing administrative certificates through the transcript evaluation process. The Director of Special Education endorsement requirements are as follows:

• Master’s degree

• Administrative certificate (Type 75)

• Passage of the director of special education test (#180)

• Minimum of two years of full-time teaching or school service personnel experience (excluding school nurse)
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• 30 semester hours of coursework across five areas including the following:
  
  • Survey/introduction to special education (SPE500)
  • Psychological and educational assessment and remediation (SPE501)
  • Supervision of special education programs/staff (SPE561)
  • Guidance and counseling,
  • Methods courses from each side of the LBSI spectrum or a general LBSI methods course
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LBS I Spectrum
Specific Learning Disability      Mental Retardation
Emotional Disturbance              Orthopedic Impairment

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Individuals should already have taken an administration and organization of schools course (EDL510) for their Type 75 Certificate.

Early Childhood Special Education

Students may earn an Early Childhood Special Education Approval on a Type 04 Early Childhood certificate or a Special Education certificate by having the following 4 courses required by the Illinois State Board of Education:

SPE510	Early Childhood Special Education Language Development & Challenges
SPE532	Early Childhood Special Education Curriculum, Instruction & Methods
SPE533	Early Childhood Special Education Diagnostic Assessment
SPE534	Early Childhood Special Education Collaboration, Family & Community