Cosmetology Instructor Training Schools and Instructor Trainees

PURPOSE: This rule establishes the requirements a school must meet to qualify for the instructor training program. (1) No school shall be approved for instructor training unless one (1) instructor has been instructing students for at least one (1) year. (2) Minimum Equipment and Supplies. It is required that all schools approved by the board for instructor training have on hand the following equipment and training supplies: (A) One (1) complete visual aid teaching system which shall be adequate to materially aid in the proper training education of cosmetology. This visual aid teaching system may include, but is not limited to, the following items: video recorder, overhead projector, film projector, educational films and screen; (B) One (1) chalk board, at least size four feet by six feet (4' × 6'); and (C) A reference library for instructor trainees containing the following materials: cosmetology textbooks, a current instructor’s manual, textbook on psychology and trade publications. All textbooks and manuals must be current. (3) Curriculum for instructor training shall include both theory and practical clinic training to include the following: (A) Two hundred (200) hours—basic principles of student teaching to include: teaching principles, lesson planning, curriculum planning and class outlines, teaching methods, teaching aids, testing and evaluation; (B) Fifty (50) hours—psychology, as applied to cosmetology, personality and teaching; teacher evaluation, counseling, theories of learning and speech; (C) Fifty (50) hours—business experience or management including: classroom management, record keeping, buying and inventorying supplies, and state law; and (D) Three hundred (300) hours—practice teaching in both theory and practical application. (4) Training and Calculation of Hours. (A) All schools in Missouri approved by the board for instructor training shall provide a minimum of six hundred (600) hours of training in a curriculum defined by section 329.080, RSMo. Instructor trainee applicants desiring credit for college courses in teaching methodology or for practical experience as a licensed Class CA, Class CH, Class MO and Class E shall submit a request to the board in accordance with 20 CSR 2085-8.010. (B) All instructor trainees shall be enrolled in a course of study of no less than three (3) hours per day and no more than twelve (12) hours per day, with a weekly total that is not less than fifteen (15) hours and no more than seventy-two (72) hours per week. (C) Each school or public institution shall define for its own purpose what constitutes a full-time, part-time or evening instructor trainee, but will be required to designate one of these classifications for each instructor trainee enrolled in its program of training and supply this information to the board on the instructor trainee enrollment form. (D) No instructor trainee shall be permitted to change his/ her designated status of enrollment except by the submission of a properly completed change of status form to the board in accordance with 20 CSR 2085-8.010(4). (E) No portion of an instructor trainee’s minimum training requirements may be obtained in course work or demonstrations outside the school of his/her enrollment unless a specific request for this program of instruction is submitted to the board by the school on a form supplied by the board no fewer than fourteen (14) days prior to the next regular meeting of the board and approval is given by the board prior to the requested program. Requests received fewer than fourteen (14) days prior to the next meeting shall be placed on the agenda for the following meeting. The required ratio of instructor supervision shall be maintained and instructor trainee attendance at the activity verified. Credit shall not be given for time in transit to and from the activity. (F) Every school shall provide continuous and adequate supervision of its instructor trainees by a licensed instructor. Under no circumstances shall an instructor trainee be left solely in charge of a school. (5) Trainee Enrollment. It shall be the responsibility of the school to submit instructor trainee enrollment forms to the board at least two (2) weeks prior to the anticipated commencement of an instructor trainee’s studies. The application shall be properly completed on a form supplied by the board and shall be accompanied by the following: proof of successful completion of a twelfth grade education (diploma or general educational development (GED) certificate), a sworn statement by the applicant that he/she is in sufficient physical and mental health to study as an instructor trainee and to be an instructor, two (2) United States passport photographs measuring two inches by two inches (2" × 2") taken within the last five (5) years and the enrollment fee. (A) No instructor trainee shall receive any credit for training received at a school until the application is received and approved by the board and the instructor trainee license is returned to the school. The instructor trainee license is not transferable and shall be conspicuously displayed within the school with a two inch square (2" x 2") photograph taken within the last five (5) years. (B) All schools’ training instructors are required to provide each instructor trainee with an identifying badge designating “Instructor Trainee” to be worn by the instructor trainee at all times during his/her training course. (6) Any school which has been approved for instructor training by the board shall submit proof to the board that a substitute instructor will be available to that school to assume continuous, uninterrupted instruction. Satisfactory proof will be demonstrated by a contract of agreement, an affidavit or AND INSURANCE other evidence found to be adequate and trustworthy and which verifies that a substitute instructor will be available. (7) Termination of Trainees. Within two (2) weeks of the termination of training of any instructor trainee, it shall be the responsibility of the holder of the license to operate a school to submit to the board a properly completed termination form for the trainee. The form shall be approved by the board and shall contain or be accompanied by the following information: (A) The name and address of the instructor trainee; (B) The number of training hours completed by the instructor trainee in theory and practical application, allocated by subject area in each category; (C) The date of the instructor trainee’s termination; (D) The instructor trainee license; and (E) A certification of payment/nonpayment of contractual fees that is completed by the school on a form supplied by the board. (8) Transfers. Any instructor trainee desiring to change schools shall contact the school in which he/she is currently enrolled and request termination. The school shall terminate the instructor trainee as required by 20 CSR 2085-12.090(7) within two (2) weeks of the trainee’s request to be terminated. (9) Under no circumstances shall instructor trainees be allowed to practice cosmetology for compensation during training hours. Every school shall allow its instructor trainees to perform only bona fide demonstrations on members of the general public. A bona fide demonstration is one performed for the instruction of students where one (1) or more students actually observe or participate in the work being performed by the instructor trainee. AUTHORITY: sections 329.080, RSMo 2000 and 329.025.1, 329.040, 329.050 and 329.085, RSMo Supp. 2006.* Original rule filed Aug. 1, 2007, effective Feb. 29, 2008. *Original authority: 329.025, RSMo 2005; 329.040, RSMo 1939, amended 1945, 1959, 1979, 1981, 1987, 1989, 1995, 1997, 2001; 329.050, RSMo 1939, amended 1945, 1949, 1961, 1981, 1989, 1995, 1996, 2001, 2005; 329.080, RSMo 1939, amended 1945, 1949, 1959, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1989, 1995, 1997; and 329.085, RSMo 1989, amended 1995, 1997, 2001.