Application for Issuance of Teacher Assistant Certicate
Excerpts from the Education Code
Student Teaching; Requirements and Limitations on Fees
10020. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as preventing school districts from hiring, employing, or
otherwise using teacher aides, instructional aides, or teacher-assistants under the terms of existing law and
nancial support formulas. The commission may study the various roles of such paraprofessionals and routinely
report its ndings.
Public and private colleges, universities, and community colleges may develop cooperative programs with
school districts or school governing boards to place undergraduate and graduate students in public and private
classrooms as teacher aides or assistants. Such assignment may be, at the discretion of the institution, the
basis for securing college credit.
A certicate to serve as a temporary teacher-assistant shall be issued, by the county superintendent of
schools of the county in which service is to be rendered, to the holder of recommendation from an accredited
college, university, or community college. The certicate shall authorize the holder to serve as a
teacher-assistant. No such certicate shall be granted for a period exceeding two years.
The teacher-assistant certicate shall not be used in lieu of a teaching credential. The holder of such a
certicate shall work under the immediate supervision of a credentialed classroom teacher to whom the
teacher-assistant is assigned, who shall be present in the classroom while the teacher-assistant is performing
his classroom duties or who shall be available at all times to provide guidance and direction to the
teacher-assistant.
(Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)
Paraprofessionals; Temporary Teacher-Assistant Certicate
44323. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as preventing school districts from hiring, employing, or
otherwise using teacher aides, instructional aides, or teacher-assistants under the terms of existing law and
nancial support formulas. The commission may study the various roles of such paraprofessionals and routinely
report its ndings.
Public and private colleges, universities, and community colleges may develop cooperative programs with
school districts or school governing boards to place undergraduate and graduate students in public and private
classrooms as teacher aides or assistants. Such assignment may be, at the discretion of the institution, the
basis for securing college credit.
(Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)
Employment of Certicated Teacher-Assistant
44926. The governing board of any school district may employ any qualied person who possesses a
temporary certicate to serve as a teacher-assistant in a program conducted in cooperation with a California
teacher training institution. No person shall be so employed unless he is enrolled as a student in a cooperating
California teacher training institution at the time the service is rendered. Service by a person under a
teacher-assistant certicate shall not be included in computing the service required as a prerequisite to the
attainment of, or eligibility to, classication as a permanent employee of a school district. The governing board
may make such payments as it deems proper for the services rendered.
Any person employed under this section shall not be subject to the provisions of Chapter 1 (commencing
with Section 22000) to Chapter 27 (commencing with Section 24600), inclusive, of Part 13 of Division 1 of
Title 1.
(Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)
Form No. 503-103-1 (BACK) 11/10/2010