Teaching experience pathways for landscape architecture educators

Turn your teaching experience into licensure credentials

As a landscape architecture educator, your teaching experience is valuable — not just in the classroom, but also on your path to professional licensure. Through collaborative research efforts with our partners in landscape architecture and regulation, we've developed clear pathways that recognize your teaching experience toward CLARB Certification.

How teaching experience counts

Our specialized criteria recognize qualified teaching as professional experience that meets the rigorous standards required for CLARB Certification (and licensure in participating jurisdictions).

Supervision requirements

Teaching experience must be conducted under the supervision of a licensed landscape architect or a licensed professional in a related field.

Subject matter requirements

Your teaching experience must fall within CLARB's defined regulated areas of practice. These are determined by CLARB’s job task analysis and correspond with the four sections of the Landscape Architect Registration Examination (L.A.R.E.):

• Inventory, Analysis and Project Management (project management, inventory and data collection, stakeholder engagement process, physical analysis, and contextual analysis)
• Planning and Design (stewardship and design principles, master planning, schematic design, and design development)
• Construction Documentation and Administration (construction plans and details, construction specifications and bidding, and construction administration)
• Grading, Drainage, and Stormwater Management (stormwater management, grading and earthwork, and drainage systems)

Calculating experience credit for educators

To achieve CLARB Certification, you must demonstrate through current, verified documentation within your CLARB Record that you satisfy the requirements for education, experience and examination.

Education and examination requirements are detailed in the CLARB Uniform Standard. The experience requirement may be satisfied through full- or part-time employment as an educator:

Full-time teaching

• Defined as FTE 1.0 (Full Time Equivalent) for at least two consecutive months
• 75% (or 9 months for every one year) of full-time teaching experience is credited toward the experience requirement

Part-time teaching

• Defined as FTE 0.5 or 0.75 for at least four consecutive months
• Counts for 33% credit (up to 4.5 months experience annually)
• 33% (or 4.5 months for every one year) of part-time teaching experience is credited toward the experience requirement

Experience earned in teaching positions below FTE 0.5 do not qualify toward experience requirements.

Why pursue CLARB Certification?

CLARB Certification is a professional credential that verifies you meet or exceed the CLARB Uniform Licensure Standard requirements for education, experience and examination. This credential:

• Carries CLARB's recommendation for licensure
• Gives regulatory boards confidence in your qualifications
• Streamlines the licensure application process
• Makes obtaining licensure in multiple jurisdictions simpler and more efficient

Get started today

Don't wait to turn your valuable teaching experience into professional credentials. Establish your CLARB Record today and begin the pathway to CLARB Certification and licensure.

Questions about how your specific teaching experience applies? Contact the CLARB Support Team for personalized guidance.