(a) The following types of experience may be counted as experience:
  (1) Experience as a director, assistant director, or caregiver working directly with children, obtained in any operation regulated by DFPS, whether paid or unpaid;
  (2) Experience as a director, assistant director, or caregiver working directly with children in a licensed or certified operation in another state or country;
  (3) One year experience providing skill-based instruction or as a caregiver in a recreational or youth development program, where children in pre-kindergarten through grade six are in care for at least two hours a day, three days a week;
  (4) One year of full-time classroom teaching in a public or private accredited school in grades pre-kindergarten through grade six, during a customary school year;
  (5) Substitute or part-time classroom teaching in a public or private accredited school in grades pre-kindergarten through grade six, if the total length of time adds up to one year of full-time teaching during a customary school year; or
  (6) One year of post-graduate study in child development, early childhood education, or a closely related field.
(b) You must have obtained all work experience in a full-time capacity or its equivalent in a part-time capacity. Full-time is defined as 30 hours per week.

Source Note: The provisions of this §744.1021 adopted to be effective September 1, 2010, 35 TexReg 7469; transferred effective March 9, 2018, as published in the Texas Register February 16, 2018, 43 TexReg 909