Registration of Instructor Trainees

PURPOSE: This rule establishes the requirements an applicant shall meet to qualify for an instructor training program. (1) Any person desiring to enroll as an instructor trainee shall contact the school of intended enrollment and complete an instructor trainee enrollment form supplied by the board. At least two (2) weeks prior to the anticipated commencement of the instructor trainee’s program of instruction, the properly completed form shall be submitted by the school to the board and shall include or be accompanied by the following: (A) Proof of successful completion of a twelfth grade education (diploma or General Educational Development (GED) certificate); (B) A sworn statement by the applicant that he/she is in good physical and mental health; (C) Two (2) United States passport photographs measuring two inches by two inches (2" × 2") that have been taken within the last five (5) years and the enrollment fee. (2) No person shall be given credit for any training received in a school until a properly completed instructor trainee enrollment form has been received and approved by the board and an instructor trainee license is returned to the school. The applicant shall only be eligible for an instructor trainee license for the classified occupation(s) of cosmetology for which the applicant is currently licensed as an operator. If the enrollment school is not licensed to teach and instruct in all classified occupations of the trainee, the instructor trainee shall be limited to the instructor license classification of the school. The instructor trainee license shall expire on the expiration date. (3) For the purpose of meeting the minimum requirements for examination, training completed within a school of cosmetology by an instructor trainee shall be recognized by the board for a period of no more than five (5) years from the date it is received. (4) Change of Status. For any instructor trainee desiring to make a change to his/her original enrollment application, continue training at the time application is made for examination or continue training beyond the expiration of the instructor trainee license, an application for change of status shall be made to the board on a form supplied by the board. The form shall be accompanied by the instructor trainee license and the enrollment fee and shall be postmarked no later than three (3) days from the effective date of the change of status. The change of status application shall include an interim certificate which shall be good for twenty (20) days from the date of application and shall be retained by the school to serve as the training license for the instructor trainee until the amended license is received from the board. (5) Any instructor trainee applicant requesting credit for college courses in teaching methodology must submit to the board a certified transcript together with a course description certified by the administering education institution that shows the college course was primarily directed to teaching methodology. Four and one-half (4 1/2) college credit hours in teaching methodology may be substituted for three hundred (300) hours of training (one hundred (100) hours for each three (3) college credit hour course). The three hundred (300) hours will be partially reduced in proportion to college credit hours in teaching methodology of less than four and one-half (4 1/2) hours. (6) Any instructor trainee applicant requesting credit for fulltime work experience as a licensed Class CA, Class CH, Class MO or Class E shall submit to the board an affidavit of work experience completed by each employer on a form supplied by the board. Three (3) years of experience may be substituted for three hundred (300) hours of training. The three hundred (300) hours will be proportionately reduced for experience greater than six (6) months but less than three (3) years. (7) After completing six hundred (600) hours of instructor training and successfully passing the instructor examination, an instructor may teach any of the classifications of cosmetology provided he/she possesses a current operator and instructor license in the appropriate classification(s) for which he/she desires to teach. AUTHORITY: sections 329.080, RSMo 2000 and 329.025.1, RSMo Supp. 2007.* Original rule filed Aug. 1, 2007, effective Feb. 29, 2008. *Original authority: 329.025, RSMo 2005 and 329.080, RSMo 1939, amended 1945, 1949, 1959, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1989, 1995, 1997.