Driver Education
Teacher Requirements
Illinois State
Board of Education
a)
Approved Teachers – Persons authorized by the State Superintendent of
Education to conduct an approved driver education course.
b)
Teacher Preparation – All persons who teach a driver education course,
which is reimbursable or non-reimbursable, must be qualified according to the
minimum standards.
1) The
teacher must have the following:
A) The instructor must be a certified teacher.
B)
The instructor must hold a valid drivers license.
C)
The instructor must possess good physical
health as determined in accordance with Section 24-5 of The School Code.
2) The driver education teacher in a
nonpublic school is not required
to be certified but
must hold a baccalaureate degree, or equivalent as determined by the employing
school, in addition to meeting the requirements of Section 252.40(b) (3).
3)
The fully qualified instructor is required to
have sixteen (16) semester hours (just a note: these requirements will be increased to 24
semester hours starting 1 February 2012) of college credit in the field
of safety and driver education as follows:
A)
five (5) semester hours
in driver education,
B)
three (3) semester hours
in general safety,
C)
eight (8) semester hours
in subjects chosen from the following related areas:
i)
Additional safety courses;
ii)
Advanced psychology and sociology;
iii)
Health education;
iv)
Instructional materials.
D)
Teachers assigned to either simulation or multiple-car programs must have
preparation in the use of these methods which shall consists of as minimum of one semester hour or its equivalent in each area.
4)
Additional requirements will not be retroactive
as pertaining to those qualified under standards applicable prior to September
1, 1962, so long as they continue to teach driver education in the same
district, except in the event the method of instruction has been changed to
include simulation and/or multiple-car laboratory instruction. (See Section 252.40 (b) (3) (D)). The prescribed additional requirements effective July 1, 1969, must be met.
5)
When two or more teachers are assigned to driver
education, it is recommended that one teacher be designated as responsible for
the overall program. When schools have a
department chairman or a person designated to supervise the program, this
person must meet the minimum state requirements and be qualified to teach
driver education.
(Source: Amended at 10 Ill. Reg. 12922, effective July
22, 1986.)
* The
course of instruction required of each eligible student at the high school
level shall consist of a minimum of 30 clock hours of classroom instruction taught
by a certified high school teacher who has acquired special qualifications as
required by participation under the terms of Section 27-24.2 of this Act.
Please
be aware that the requirements for teaching driver education in
Beginning with applications received on or after 1
February 2012, an endorsement in safety and driver education shall be issued
when the applicant provides evidence of having completed 24 semester hours of
college credit in the field, with at least 12 semester hours at the upper-division
or graduate level, as defined by the institution offering the coursework,
distributed as follows:
1) 3 semester hours in injury
prevention or safety;
2) 12 semester hours in driving
education that include:
A) driving task
analysis (introduction to driver education);
B) teaching driver
education in the classroom;
C) teaching the laboratory
portion of the driver education course, including:
i)
on-street teaching under the supervision of a qualified driver education
teacher;
ii) the equivalent of at least
one semester hour’s preparation in and use of driving simulation;
iii) the equivalent of at least
one semester hour’s preparation in and use of multiple-car programs; and
D) advanced driver
education and emergency evasive driving;
3) 3 semester hours in first aid
and cardiopulmonary resuscitation; and
4) 6 semester hours chosen in any
combination from:
A) the use of
technology in instruction;
B) safety issues
related to alcohol and other drugs;
C) driver education
for students with disabilities; and
D) any other
safety-related area.
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