790-X-1-.09. Qualifications For Continuing Education Instructors.
| (1) A continuing education instructor is defined as an instructor who is approved to teach only continuing education courses. All instructors who are approved to teach prelicense and post license courses are also approved to teach continuing education courses and are not required to qualify under this rule.
(2) Every continuing education instructor applicant must apply for approval on a form prescribed by the Commission along with the appropriate fee. No instructor may begin teaching a course offered for continuing education credit until he/she has received written approval from the Commission. (a) Continuing education instructor applicants should not have been found guilty of violating any provision of the Real Estate License Law or any rule, regulation or order of the licensing authority in any state. (b) Continuing education instructors will be periodically reviewed and evaluated by the Alabama Real Estate Commission. (c) Continuing education instructors must attend Commission sponsored orientation courses and seminars when directed to do so by the Commission. Failure to do so will result in instructor approval being revoked in accordance with Rule 790-X-1-.17. (3) Instructor Qualifications. A person seeking approval to teach approved continuing education courses may seek approval in his/her principal occupation by possessing one of the following: (a) Bachelor's degree in the field of instruction plus at least two years experience in the field of instruction; (b) Teaching experience consisting of at least 75 hours in the application field within 3 years immediately preceding the date of the instructor's application plus 3 years full time experience in the field of instruction; (c) Six years full time experience in the profession, trade or occupation in the field of instruction; (d) Any combination of at least six years of full time experience relevant to the application field and college level education with course work in the field of instruction. (4) All instructor applicants qualifying under (3) above must submit documentation of qualifications and a resume outlining experience, education and/or teaching experience in the applicable field. (5) Continuing education instructors who hold an active Distinguished Real Estate Instructor designation from the Real Estate Educators Association will be automatically approved upon submission of an active DREI certificate or other official documentation from REEA, the appropriate instructor application, and the application fee. All instructors who are approved based on a DREI designation must maintain an active designation in order to maintain instructor approval. If a DREI designation becomes inactive or expires, the instructor’s approval immediately expires and the individual must qualify through regular application procedures as stated in paragraph (3). It is the instructor’s responsibility to provide proof of renewal of the DREI designation within ten days of its renewal or to notify the Commission of failure to renew the designation to active status within ten days of its becoming inactive or expiring. Failure to do so will subject the instructor to disciplinary action under Rule 790-X-1-.17. These instructors must comply with all requirements specified in paragraph (2) above. (6) Approved instructors shall not earn continuing education credit for teaching courses.
Statutory Authority: Code of Ala. 1975, §§ 34-27-6, 34-27-8, 34-27-35.. |
History:
Filed August 27, 1986. Ed. Note: Former Rule 790-X-1-.10 entitled ''Withdrawal of Approval''
was moved in its entirety to become Rule 790-X-1-.17. Amended: Filed August 15, 1988; January 31, 1989;
December 9, 1992. Amended: Filed August 25, 1993; effective September 29, 1993. Amended: Filed January
18, 1994; effective February 22, 1994. Amended: Filed August 29, 2000; effective October 3, 2000
(Ed. Note: Former Rule 790-X-1-.10 was moved in its entirety to become 790-X-1-.09, as per this certification).
Amended: Filed September 18, 2001; effective October 23, 2001. Amended: Filed November
25, 2003. Amended: Filed June 17, 2005; Effective October 3, 2005