Testing and assessment treatment
Requirement
Applicants must meet the academic preparation, student-teaching and competency-testing requirements for the specific Hawaiʻi field and grade level requested.
Which out-of-state path this covers
Hawaiʻi assigns Provisional, Standard or Advanced licensure by documented recent full-time P-12 teaching experience, and it independently reviews whether an out-of-state credential has a Hawaiʻi equivalent.
What can change this answer
Less than three years of qualifying full-time teaching in the last five years can support the three-year nonrenewable Provisional license; at least three years in the last five can support the renewable five-year Standard license; at least five years in the last eight can support the ten-year Advanced license.
Documents you may need
Plan to document the source credential, state-approved preparation, applicable tests and contracted full-time P-12 experience; HTSB makes the final Hawaiʻi equivalency determination.
Where the testing answer can change
- •An out-of-state license cannot itself authorize teaching in a Hawaiʻi public or charter school
- •Reciprocity does not guarantee that HTSB will recognize the source license as equivalent
- •Only contracted full-time P-12 teaching in Hawaiʻi, another U.S. state or a U.S. territory counts toward the published experience thresholds
- •HTSB requires the academic preparation, student teaching and competency testing that apply to the requested field
Register and send scores only for the exact exam code named by the state agency.
Official sources
Check again by 2026-11-01