Interns are required to meet certain time taught requirements as part of their phase II requirements.  


Interns must teach for 3 years on an Interim Teaching Certificate (ITC), in the discipline area(s) and grade ranges of the endorsements on their ITC, which may include intervention, pull-out teaching, summer school, afterschool, and field-based teaching in combination with a classroom teaching assignment.  


Time Taught

  • Candidates are no longer required to complete a  minimum number of instructional days per year 
  • Candidate needs to have teaching experience for 600 student contact hours in their discipline area(s) and grade ranges of the endorsements on their ITC, with a minimum of 50 student contact hours per endorsement area.
  • Part-time and full-time is no longer a concern 
  • Candidate cannot obtain employment outside of their ITC area.  If they do, they need to test in that new endorsement area to receive credit.  
  • Candidate is still required to be on an ITC all three years before adding a new endorsement area on to their standard. 
  • Candidate must teach 600 contact hours and within that they must have 50 within each endorsement area and a total of 3 years on their ITC.  



Examples: 

If John Smith has an active ITC in Mathematics 6-12 and he teaches the required 600 contact hours in Math 6-12 but is then pulled to teach Math to 5th graders, his time as a 5th grade teacher would NOT count toward his overall 3 years required on an ITC because it is outside the discipline area and grade ranges of the endorsement on his ITC.    


John Smith has the option to take the test that covers Math for 5th graders and then the hours would count.  The ITC alone would not cover the school because John is teaching outside of the ITC subject area.  IF he is covering the area temporarily, he would need to get a permit through his district.  


  • In order for an intern to show proof of time taught, they must complete a Michigan Work Experience Form.  (See MI - Work Experience Form) AND we will need a letter from the school on school letterhead requesting the number of instructional days a candidate taught and how many hours a day the candidate taught in their endorsement area.  


SPED Time Taught:

  1. SPED Time Taught 
    1. Candidate pursuing initial ITC area in our program, must complete 600 contact hours/50 in initial endorsement area BEFORE moving onto SPED.  Once SPED is on their ITC they are just finishing out the 3 years on their ITC because they will have achieved their 50 contact hours in SPED Prior.   
  2. 8 weeks of time taught in SPED while in our program 
    1. This MUST be done while in our program on an ITC after completing their SPED coursework.  Per the state, "The purposeof the specials education 8-week student teaching requirement is to activate that special eduation knowledge earned through the coursework."