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1 1 Amend House File 670, as amended, passed, and
1 2 reprinted by the House, as follows:
1 3 #1. By striking everything after the enacting
1 4 clause and inserting the following:
1 5 "Section 1. Section 272.28 as enacted by 2001 Iowa
1 6 Acts, Senate File 476, or House File 672, is amended
1 7 by adding the following new subsection:
1 8 3. A teacher licensed pursuant to section 272.2,
1 9 subsection 13, paragraph "b", who meets the
1 10 requirements of section 272.2, subsection 13,
1 11 paragraph "c", is exempt from the requirement of
1 12 subsection 1.
1 13 Sec. 2. Section 284.7, as enacted by 2001 Iowa
1 14 Acts, Senate File 476, or House File 672, is amended
1 15 by adding the following new subsection:
1 16 NEW SUBSECTION. 6. The school district shall pay
1 17 an individual who is participating in a nontraditional
1 18 practitioner preparation internship program in
1 19 accordance with section 256.16, subsection 3, and who
1 20 is employed by the district as a teacher, a minimum
1 21 salary of not less than sixty percent of the salary
1 22 paid to a first-year beginning teacher, and shall
1 23 provide the individual with the same health or medical
1 24 insurance coverage offered to all full-time teachers
1 25 employed by the district.
1 26 Sec. 3. Section 256.7, Code 2001, is amended by
1 27 adding the following new subsection:
1 28 NEW SUBSECTION. 25. Prescribe standards and
1 29 procedures for the approval of nontraditional
1 30 practitioner preparation internship programs to be
1 31 offered by practitioner preparation institutions in
1 32 this state in accordance with section 272.2,
1 33 subsection 13.
1 34 Sec. 4. Section 256.16, Code 2001, is amended by
1 35 adding the following new subsection:
1 36 NEW SUBSECTION. 3. a. The state board shall
1 37 adopt rules requiring that all higher education
1 38 institutions providing a nontraditional practitioner
1 39 preparation internship program, at a minimum, meet the
1 40 standards and comply with the standards established
1 41 pursuant to section 256.7, subsection 25. A
1 42 nontraditional practitioner preparation internship
1 43 program is exempt from the student teaching or field
1 44 experience requirements of section 272.25. A
1 45 nontraditional practitioner preparation internship
1 46 program shall include coursework in education theory,
1 47 instructional methods, classroom management, and
1 48 practice teaching. The program shall consist of two
1 49 twelve-semester-hour, or the trimester or quarter
1 50 equivalent, courses of study.
2 1 b. The institution providing the nontraditional
2 2 practitioner preparation internship program shall
2 3 enter into a written agreement with a school district,
2 4 under terms and conditions as agreed upon by the
2 5 contracting parties, providing that the school
2 6 district will provide interns seeking a nontraditional
2 7 conditional teaching license with a one-year classroom
2 8 teaching experience in which the intern team teaches
2 9 with a practitioner, who is licensed in accordance
2 10 with chapter 272, and who shall be responsible for the
2 11 management of the classroom until the intern receives
2 12 a nontraditional conditional teaching license.
2 13 Interns teaching in a school district under the terms
2 14 of such a contract are entitled to the same protection
2 15 under section 670.8, as is afforded by that section to
2 16 officers and other employees of the school district,
2 17 during the time they are so assigned.
2 18 c. An individual must successfully complete the
2 19 first course of study prior to receiving a
2 20 nontraditional conditional license pursuant to section
2 21 272.2, subsection 13, paragraphs "a" and "b".
2 22 However, an intern shall not be issued a
2 23 nontraditional conditional license to teach until the
2 24 intern successfully completes the one-year classroom
2 25 teaching experience, except as provided in paragraph
2 26 "d".
2 27 d. Except as provided in section 272.6, if the
2 28 institution providing the approved internship program
2 29 and the school district employing an intern submit to
2 30 the board of educational examiners a recommendation
2 31 for licensure of the intern, and the intern has
2 32 completed at least six weeks of the classroom teaching
2 33 experience, the intern shall be issued a
2 34 nontraditional conditional teaching license by the
2 35 board of educational examiners.
2 36 e. Prior to licensure as an administrator or a
2 37 provisional teacher, unless the requirement is waived
2 38 in accordance with this subsection for interns seeking
2 39 licensure under section 272.2, subsection 13,
2 40 paragraph "b", an individual shall successfully
2 41 complete the second twelve-semester-hour, or the
2 42 trimester or quarter equivalent, course of study in
2 43 accordance with section 272.2, subsection 13. The
2 44 institution providing the approved practitioner
2 45 preparation internship program may waive all or part
2 46 of the second course of an intern's study based upon
2 47 the institution's comprehensive evaluation of the
2 48 intern.
2 49 f. The institution that delivers the coursework to
2 50 a practitioner pursuant to this subsection shall,
3 1 along with the school district that employs the
3 2 conditional practitioner, supervise the conditional
3 3 practitioner during the practitioner's year of
3 4 employment under a nontraditional conditional license,
3 5 and shall, in consultation with the practitioner's
3 6 evaluator at the school district of employment, submit
3 7 to the board of educational examiners a comprehensive
3 8 evaluation of the practitioner's performance by July 1
3 9 following the practitioner's year of employment under
3 10 a nontraditional conditional license. If the
3 11 comprehensive evaluation establishes that the
3 12 conditional practitioner's performance fails to meet
3 13 the standards of the approved nontraditional
3 14 practitioner preparation internship program, the
3 15 individual shall not be admitted to a second course of
3 16 study offered by an approved nontraditional
3 17 practitioner preparation internship program.
3 18 g. The tuition charged by an institution for
3 19 participation in an approved nontraditional
3 20 practitioner preparation internship program shall not
3 21 exceed the resident tuition rate for one full-time
3 22 semester of study established for institutions of
3 23 higher learning under the control of the state board
3 24 of regents.
3 25 Sec. 5. Section 272.1, Code 2001, is amended by
3 26 adding the following new subsection:
3 27 NEW SUBSECTION. 5A. "Nontraditional conditional
3 28 license" means the authority that is given to allow a
3 29 person to legally serve as a practitioner on a
3 30 temporary basis while the person completes a
3 31 nontraditional practitioner preparation internship
3 32 program.
3 33 Sec. 6. Section 272.2, subsection 13, Code 2001,
3 34 is amended to read as follows:
3 35 13. Adopt rules to provide for nontraditional
3 36 preparation and licensing options for licensing
3 37 persons who hold, at a minimum, a bachelor's degree
3 38 from an accredited college or university, but who do
3 39 not meet other requirements for licensure. At a
3 40 minimum, the rules shall provide for the following:
3 41 a. An individual who possesses at least a master's
3 42 degree in business administration, public
3 43 administration, or a comparable degree, or who
3 44 possesses at least a bachelor's degree from an
3 45 accredited postsecondary institution and life
3 46 experience equivalent to a master's degree in a
3 47 management field as determined by rule, and who has
3 48 been employed for at least ten of the last fifteen
3 49 years in a management position, may be issued a one-
3 50 year, nonrenewable, nontraditional conditional
4 1 administrator's license if the individual successfully
4 2 completes a nontraditional practitioner preparation
4 3 internship program in accordance with section 256.16,
4 4 subsection 3. An individual may be issued an
4 5 administrator's license if the individual successfully
4 6 completes one year of employment as an administrator
4 7 under a nontraditional conditional license and
4 8 successfully completes the second course of study set
4 9 forth in section 256.16, subsection 3. However, an
4 10 individual licensed pursuant to this paragraph shall
4 11 be licensed only to serve as an administrator in a
4 12 school district with an actual enrollment of five
4 13 thousand five hundred or more pupils.
4 14 b. An individual who possesses at least a
4 15 bachelor's degree from an accredited postsecondary
4 16 institution, who has been employed for at least five
4 17 consecutive years in an area requiring knowledge and
4 18 practical application of the individual's
4 19 postsecondary academic background, who can document,
4 20 to the satisfaction of the state board of educational
4 21 examiners, successful experience working with
4 22 children, may be issued a one-year, nonrenewable
4 23 nontraditional conditional license to teach students
4 24 in grades nine through twelve in the area of the
4 25 individual's academic background and employment
4 26 experience if the individual meets the requirements of
4 27 section 256.16, subsection 3. In addition to these
4 28 requirements, an individual seeking a nontraditional
4 29 conditional license to teach special education
4 30 students in grades nine through twelve shall document,
4 31 to the satisfaction of the state board of educational
4 32 examiners, five years of successful experience working
4 33 with children requiring special education. An
4 34 individual may be issued a provisional license to
4 35 teach students in grades nine through twelve in the
4 36 area of the individual's academic background and
4 37 employment experience if the individual successfully
4 38 completes one year of teaching under a nontraditional
4 39 conditional license and successfully completes the
4 40 second course of study set forth in section 256.16,
4 41 subsection 3.
4 42 c. A person issued a nontraditional conditional or
4 43 provisional teaching license pursuant to paragraph "b"
4 44 shall successfully complete, at a minimum, a one-year
4 45 beginning teacher mentoring and induction program.
4 46 However, a school district may offer the individual a
4 47 second year of participation in the program if, after
4 48 conducting a comprehensive evaluation, the school
4 49 district determines that the individual is likely to
4 50 successfully complete the mentoring and induction
5 1 program by the end of the second year.
5 2 d. An approved nontraditional practitioner
5 3 preparation internship program, and the school
5 4 district or accredited nonpublic school with which the
5 5 institution administering the program has a written
5 6 agreement in accordance with section 256.16,
5 7 subsection 3, shall provide information to the board
5 8 and any documentation regarding the student's
5 9 participation in the program that the board may
5 10 reasonably request.
5 11 Sec. 7. Section 272.2, Code 2001, is amended by
5 12 adding the following new subsection:
5 13 NEW SUBSECTION. 16. a. Administer the Praxis II
5 14 examination for knowledge of pedagogies and for not
5 15 more than one content area to each individual who is
5 16 applying for a nontraditional conditional license in
5 17 accordance with subsection 13, paragraph "b".
5 18 b. Examination fees for the examination required
5 19 under this subsection shall be paid by the board.
5 20 Costs incurred for additional content area
5 21 examinations shall be paid by the applicant.
5 22 c. The results of the examinations administered
5 23 pursuant to paragraph "a" shall be separately
5 24 maintained from the results of any examinations
5 25 administered to traditionally prepared students.
5 26 d. This subsection is repealed effective June 30,
5 27 2003.
5 28 Sec. 8. DEPARTMENTAL STUDIES. The department of
5 29 education shall do the following:
5 30 1. Compile and report, in consultation with the
5 31 board of educational examiners, information relating
5 32 to nontraditional practitioner preparation internship
5 33 programs, including the number of programs available
5 34 and geographic areas in which they are available, the
5 35 number of individuals who apply for a nontraditional
5 36 conditional license, the number of individuals
5 37 possessing a nontraditional conditional license who
5 38 apply for a provisional license, the subject areas in
5 39 which persons who possess nontraditional conditional
5 40 licenses are teaching and where they are teaching.
5 41 The department shall submit its findings and
5 42 recommendations in a report to the senate and house of
5 43 representatives standing committees on education by
5 44 December 1, 2002.
5 45 2. Analyze and compare, in consultation with the
5 46 board of educational examiners, the requirements for
5 47 practitioner licensure or endorsement that require a
5 48 master's degree and the master's degree requirements
5 49 established by approved practitioner preparation
5 50 graduate programs. The institutions offering approved
6 1 practitioner preparation programs shall submit
6 2 information to the department as requested by the
6 3 department. The department shall submit its findings
6 4 and recommendations in a report to the senate and
6 5 house of representatives standing committees on
6 6 education by December 1, 2001."
6 7 #2. By renumbering as necessary.
6 8 HF 670S
6 9 kh/cc/26
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