Core application evidence
Requirement
TeachMT review uses official transcripts, preparation and supervised-teaching verification, a fingerprint background check, the source license and experience evidence or the documents for another selected competency pathway.
Which application this evidence supports
Montana does not have reciprocity with any state for teacher licensure. It evaluates degree, approved preparation, supervised teaching and one of four competency pathways for a Class 2 Standard license.
What can change this answer
The Class 2 route requires a bachelor's or master's degree and approved preparation with supervised teaching, plus one complete competency pathway: a current unrestricted source license with two years of experience, the Montana Praxis, a passing student-teaching portfolio or a 3.00 preparation-program GPA. A teacher who misses a Class 2 requirement may fit Class 5A for Praxis only, Class 5B while enrolled in preparation or Class 5C when completed preparation is no longer recent.
Conditions to resolve before sending records
- •Montana states that it does not have reciprocity with any state for teacher licensure
- •The four Class 2 competency pathways cannot be mixed and matched
- •The preparation program must be AAQEP-, CAEP-, MACTE- or state-approved
- •A Class 1 Professional license adds a qualifying master's degree or National Board certification to Class 2 eligibility
- •Every Class 5 applicant needs a Montana residential address or qualifying Montana P-12 job offer
- •Class 5 licenses are nonrenewable and cannot be reinstated
Send identity documents and background records only where the state agency instructs. TeachPassport does not receive them.
Official sources
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