Teacher Module Overview

Relevant Topics

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A Teacher's Authorization to Teach.

In the US, teachers obtain credentials that allow them to teach specific subject, or grade levels. The specifcspecif rules vary through all grade levels and across all the various States.

The authorization to teach a certain grade level a certain subject usually has a duration, there is a date where the teacher is no longer authorized to teach the class.

When a teacher is identified as the "teacher of record" or in other words, the student's official teacher, PEMS manages if the  assigned teacher is correctly authorized and if that authorization is still valid and not expired.