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Well you need 150 hours of professional development (PD) of
which 30 of those hours you may self certify (independent
study). The remaining 120 hours need to be approved SBEC
provider hours, district hours, or the equivalent in college level
coursework (about 8 credit hours). If mentored a teacher you
may count up to 45 hours as PD.

In reality though you dont do anything, just go to the SBEC
website and click renew and pay your fee, only a VERY small
number of renewal applications are randomly selected to verify
their PD hours. Its very likely your certificate will just be
renewed without doing anything.

The EC-4 is still renewable, TEA has in only very RARE instance
expired a certificate, though at some point talk is that the 4-8
generalist will be expired as Texas transitions to a purely
elementary and secondary model, so at some point the EC-6
Generalist is going to have to happen.

On 2/03/15, Diane wrote:
> Can anyone tell me what is required to renew your license in
Texas? I
> have an elementary education degree. Passed 2 certificate
areas....through
> 4th and 4-8 grade. I know that's changed to k-6th now. I
stopped working
> about 7 years ago to homeschool my kids and my youngest is
16 and
> about to graduate high school and start college so all three
kids are in
> college. I'm looking at going to go back to teaching but at a
private school.
> What do I do? More schooling? Retake test? I also have a
license in
> Oklahoma that I will be renewing which only requires a fee.
Thanks for your
> help.

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