-: Typically it's five years minimum of classroom experience
and then you also need to be like a classroom leader.
To be a classroom leader, your administration recognizes
you as you're the person who's getting consistently
top scores on state assessments, you've shown
a lot of growth within your students from beginning
of year to end of the year on various assessments.
Then they'll put you off into a professional development,
which is like a coaching class
and they teach you how to be coach.
Once you have passed that, then now they're making
you take an advanced coaching academy,
which is connected with the University of Florida,
which is about a half a year course,
which you have to do video tape lessons and conversations
with teachers and you learn a lot more
and deeper knowledge of how to be a coach.
Once you graduate, then you get a certificate
from the University of Florida stating
that you are a certified coach, which is a great thing.
It's a great thing to add to your resume,
but it's a lot of work, but it's definitely well worth it
to advance into the coaching profession.
After you graduate with your teaching certificate,
there are somethings that you could add on,
such as your gifted endorsement, that's a huge thing.
Also, you can also become ESA endorsed and ESE endorsed
and those endorsements are huge because it gives you
a wide range of skills, working with different groups
of students that will allow you to move up.