329.080. Instructor trainee license, qualifications, application, fee. - Missouri Statutes

Instructor trainee license, qualifications, application, fee.

329.080. 1. An instructor trainee shall be a licensed cosmetologist,esthetician or manicurist and shall hold a license as an instructor traineein cosmetology, esthetics or manicuring. An applicant for a license topractice as an instructor trainee shall submit to the board the requiredfee and a written application on a form supplied by the board upon requestthat the applicant is of good moral character, in good physical and mentalhealth, has successfully completed at least a four-year high school courseof study or the equivalent, and holds a Missouri license to practice as acosmetologist, esthetician or manicurist. Each application shall contain astatement that it is made under oath or affirmation and that itsrepresentations are true and correct to the best knowledge and belief ofthe person signing the application, subject to the penalties of making afalse affidavit or declaration.

2. An applicant approved by the board shall be issued an instructortrainee license. The license shall be issued for a definite period neededto complete training requirements to become eligible for taking theexaminations. An applicant shall be approved for an instructor traineelicense only for those classified occupations of cosmetology for which theapplicant is licensed at the time the instructor trainee application issubmitted to the board.

3. The instructor trainee shall be required to complete six hundredhours of instructor training within a Missouri licensed school ofcosmetology consisting of a curriculum including both theory and practicaltraining to include the following:

(1) Two hundred hours to be devoted to basic principles of studentteaching to include teaching principles, lesson planning, curriculumplanning and class outlines, teaching methods, teaching aids, testing andevaluation;

(2) Fifty hours of psychology as applied to cosmetology, personalityand teaching, teacher evaluation, counseling, theories of learning, andspeech;

(3) Fifty hours of business experience or management includingclassroom management, record keeping, buying and inventorying supplies, andstate law; and

(4) Three hundred hours of practice teaching in both theory andpractical application.

4. For the purpose of meeting the minimum requirements forexamination, training completed within a school of cosmetology by aninstructor trainee shall be recognized by the board for a period of no morethan five years from the date it is received.

5. The six hundred hours required pursuant to subsection 3 of thissection may be reduced as follows:

(1) Three years of experience as a practicing cosmetologist may besubstituted for three hundred hours of training. The three hundred hourswill be partially reduced in proportion to experience greater than sixmonths but less than three; or

(2) Four and one-half college credit hours in teaching methodology,as defined by rule, may be substituted for three hundred hours of training.Applicants requesting credit shall submit to the board a certifiedtranscript together with a course description certified by theadministrating education institution as being primarily directed toteaching methodology. The three hundred hours will be partially reducedin proportion to college credit hours in teaching methodology of less thanfour and one-half hours; or

(3) Applicants who apply from states where the requirements are notsubstantially equal to those in force in Missouri at the time ofapplication, may be eligible for the examination if they provide:

(a) An affidavit verifying a current, valid instructor license inanother state, territory of the United States, District of Columbia, orforeign country, state or province; and

(b) Proof of full-time work experience of not less than one year as acosmetology instructor within the three-year period immediately precedingthe application for examination.

(RSMo 1939 § 9816, A.L. 1945 p. 959, A. 1949 H.B. 2069, A.L. 1959 S.B. 283, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1378, A.L. 1979 H.B. 960, A.L. 1981 S.B. 16, A.L. 1989 H.B. 738 & 720, A.L. 1995 S.B. 292, A.L. 1997 H.B. 309)

Prior revision: 1929 § 9095