Teacher Certification

What are the Requirements to become a Certified ETL Teacher?

  1. Every ETL teacher candidate is required to have a doctorate, master’s or master’s degree in progress in relation to education, social work, special education or a related field.

What is the Certification Process?

  1. Every ETL teacher candidate is required to successfully complete a 6-9 month intensive, one-on-one group and classroom training as well as hands-on training in the field.

    Certification process involves the following:

  1. Completion of the ETL Course I

  1. Completion of ETL Course II

  1. Completion of ETL Course III (Vocational Training)

  1. Completion of ETL Course IV (Sexuality)

  1. Completion of ETL Course V (Autism)

  1. Completion of ETL Course VI (Urgent Support)

    ETL teacher candidates will also go through additional training on:

*Tourette’s Syndrome

*Brain Injury

*Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

*Aging

*OCD

*Cri du Chat

*PICA

*Cohen

*Prader Willi Syndrome

*Angelman Syndrome

*Advocacy Training

In order to keep ETL teacher’s skills sharpened and stay updated with the most current studies
in the field, ETL provides the following:

  1. Every six weeks, all ETL family members are required to attend one day of Educational Review as part of a continuing education and receiving therapeutic support.

  1. Every two years, ETL teachers are required to go through a one-day recertification process.

  1. Every ETL teacher is offered field support as needed.

  1. Every ETL teacher is assigned and ETL coach, who provides therapeutic support, assistance, checks and balances in a weekly basis.

  1. Every ETL teacher is assigned a facilitator to assist them with paperwork, scheduling, therapeutic checks/balances on a daily basis.

  1. Every ETL facilitator and office mentor are required to go with an ETL teacher in the field on a quarterly basis

  1. The ETL office mentor will provide additional therapeutic support and checks/balances to ETL teachers on a daily basis.

  1. Every new certified ETL teacher is provided with nine months of mentoring in addition to all of the above therapeutic support and checks/balances.