Beginning Teacher Support Program (BTSP)

Initial (Standard Professional 1) licenses are issued to teachers with fewer than three years of appropriate teaching experience (normally considered to be public school experience) in their initial licensure area. All teachers who hold initial (Standard Professional 1) licenses after January 1, 1998, are required to participate in a three year induction period with a formal orientation, mentor support, observations and evaluation prior to the recommendation for continuing (Standard Professional 2) licensure.

Teachers with three or more years of appropriate experience (as determined by the Licensure Section) are not required to participate in the Beginning Teacher Support Program, nor are student service personnel (e.g., media coordinators, counselors), administrators, and curriculum-instructional specialists. Employers may request an exemption from the Beginning Teacher Support Program for teachers with equivalent non-public experience. It is the responsibility of the employer requesting the exemption to verify experience.
Completion of the Beginning Teacher Support Program requirements in one teaching area satisfies the Beginning Teacher Support Program requirement for all other teaching areas.

Once a continuing license has been earned in one teaching area, additional teaching areas do not require a Beginning Teacher Support Program experience. For the full State policy, please click here: http://www.dpi.state.nc.us/docs/recruitment/beginning/policysupportprogram.pdf

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Beginning Teacher Support Program (BTSP)