Educator Licensure

Mississippi Licensure Guidelines require that all educators submit a completed application with any licensure request.

APPLICATION PROCESS

Read Licensure Instructions and Checklist to locate the license for which you are applying.
Collect documents required for your license and check off correlating boxes on Licensure Checklist
Complete Licensure Application
Send Licensure Application Packet and all documents required in your license category in a single,complete packet to the Mississippi Department of Education, Office of Educator Licensure, P.O. Box 771, Jackson, MS 39205-0771.

Incomplete packets will be returned to the applicant with no action taken.

The Office of Educator Licensure does not accept photocopies of Praxis scores.
We must receive them electronically from ETS or we must receive the original score report.

Licensure Application Packet

To file License Application online through ELMS (click here)
For paper License Application click here
- Licensure Application & Checklist
- Institutional Program Verification
Additional Forms
- Verification of Accreditation Child Development
- Mentorship/Induction/Evaluation Form

If a Mississippi school district has a teaching vacancy that cannot be filled with a certified teacher, the district can request a one-year license for a teacher that is not certified. Applications for district request licenses are linked below. All 1-year district requests must contain a plan of action through which the teacher agrees to obtain full certification.

• One-year License for Veteran Educators: this license is for teachers who hold full certification but are teaching out-of-field
- Local District Request Application Packet

• Three year Interim Certificate: this license is for teachers who are not certified. This license has been suspended for the 2011-2012 school year by order of the state superintendent of education.

One-Year Interim Certificate Renewal Speech/Language Clinicians (215)
- Local District Request Application Packet 2011-2012 only
One-Year Interim Certificate Renewal for Emotional Disability (206)
- Local District Request Application Packet 2011-2012 only

Core and Non-Core NCLB subject areas

Copies of the Mississippi Department of Educator Licensure forms have been created in a Portable Document Format (PDF) format. Adobe Acrobat Reader is required to read PDF documents. It is available free of charge from Adobe by clicking on the Acrobat logo.