Certification
Submitting Documents to the Office of Teaching Initiatives
All documents submitted to the Office of Teaching Initiatives (OTI) must include:
- Your name as it appears in your TEACH account
- Last four digits of your social security number or date of birth
We recommend adding all of your former names (e.g., maiden name) and listing all of the colleges that you attended in your TEACH account, which provides additional identifying information. To get your maiden name or any previous names added to your account for transcript/documents purposes, you would not need a name change request. To do so, please follow the directions below:
- Login to TEACH
- Under "Profile Links", click "Update/Add Education, Employment, and Personal Information"
- Click "Edit Personal Info"
- Add or remove any previous or alternative names in the box provided
- Click "Submit" to save
Please note that applicants cannot add their first name into the maiden/former name field in TEACH. You may submit supporting documentation (e.g., court documents) to TCERT@nysed.gov to reflect a previous first name as necessary.
Please only send a document once to OTI. Sending the same document more than once delays the processing of all documents. It typically takes 2-4 weeks for a document to be entered in TEACH. To see if your document has been processed, go to the “Documents” table within the “Correspondence” section of your TEACH account. If your document is not listed in this table, then OTI has not entered the document into TEACH yet. You could resend the same document if you do not see your document in TEACH after six weeks.
Click on the type of document that you would like to submit to OTI for more information.
Education
- College transcripts (U.S. states and U.S. territories)
- College credit by exam score report (e.g., CLEP, Dantes/DSST, ACTFL, AP)
- College Documentation - Other (e.g., college recomendations, course descriptions, syllabi, letters)
- High School, High School Equivalency, and GED Transcripts and Diplomas
- Foreign Credentials for Education Completed Outside of the U.S.
Additional Certification Requirements
- Certification Exam Scores
- Mentoring Requirement
- Workshops
- Verification of Teaching, Educational Leadership, and Pupil Personnel Service Experience
- Verification of Occupational Experience Form
- Coaching
Educator Certificates
- Educator certificates from other U.S. states or U.S. territories
- National Board Teaching Certificate
Name Change
For all other documents not listed above, send them to: tcert@nysed.gov.
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**Supporting documents must be in .JPG or .PDF format. We cannot open compressed files (example: .HEIC, .ZIP), or cloud files (example: Dropbox, iCloud, Google Drive)** |