Credit For Courses Taught

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If you are an enrolled student at TESC (applicants don't count) AND you teach credit courses at a Regionally Accredited college/university, you can get credit for the courses you teach. This might be duplicate credit depending on your background, but in my case I earned 28 free elective credits FOR FREE. They didn't charge me a dime. Just FYI they came in as transfer credit, not non course credit (like CLEPs)

Just to be clear:

The courses you teach HAVE to be for college credit.
The college HAS to be RA, not NA.
The courses CAN'T duplicate credit you have already earned. (this is open to interpretation in applied technology/career depts, probably worth a try if your not sure, arts and science transfer credits have less wiggle room)

What you have to do:
Call your adviser and tell them you need a "Credit For Courses Taught" application- it is not on the web site, they will snail mail it to you.

You need to document your courses using a photo copy of the official catalog course description FROM THE YEAR you taught/teach each class. The registration center where you work will be able to pull this info for you.

You will need to fill in some other misc, like dates and credits. (your HR department has this) Your department chair will need to send a letter and your entire packet into TESC. They will review it (yawn...mine took 3 months) and decide.

I know this option won't apply to everyone- but the reason it applied to me is because my culinary degree was from a NA college when I graduated and landed my teaching job. When I applied to TESC, they wouldn't take my transcript from my NA degree (even though the college is now RA), but since I was teaching many of those courses, they would allow me to get credit for teaching them. Apparently, if you TEACH a course for 12 years, they figure you probably have the knowledge of a student completing your course. (gosh thanks) Anyway, I know I have read about a few people who teach, so just tossing it out there.
Remember- it's free!

P.S. They will assign an alpha/numeric to the course, it probably won't appear on your transcript exactly as you teach it. ex. My CU208 Food Cost Accounting actually came in to TESC as ACC199 (note it was taken down from 200 level to a 100 level and changed to an accounting course, yet my 3 credit CUL125 Culinary Math course was turned into a 3 credit HOE which is an elective, not math.)

Hope someone can use this info!!