Special Education Staffing
The Office of Special Education Services offers guidance for administrators, teachers, and support staff for filling district-level special education staffing needs.
HOUSSE
Special Education teachers who teach a content area in a special education setting must be dually certified. The HOUSSE is not a pathway to any type of certification, including special education certification. The HOUSSE may be used for a certified special education teacher's qualification to serve as TOR for grading purposes in a special education classroom when they do not hold the appropriate subject area certification. The HOUSSE can only be used by certified special education teachers. Since HOUSSE is not a certification pathway, it will never appear on teaching certificates. A copy of the approved HOUSSE documents and all supporting documentation should be kept by the school district for review by the Regional Accreditation Officer. Documents can be found here.
• Middle Level or Secondary HOUSSE
Additional Resources and Guidance
• Early Childhood or Elementary Education Subject Area Test
• Middle School or Secondary Education
HB 2329 provides for an exemption to the requirements of all teacher certification examinations for deaf teacher candidates. In order to be considered for an exemption as provided by HB 2329, the teacher candidate must be deaf with a hearing loss so severe that the person cannot process linguistic information with or without accommodations and whose primary language and teaching environment is American Sign Language.
