House Journal: Page 1923: Monday, May 7, 2001
8 adding the following new subsection:
9 NEW SUBSECTION. 51. Develop a core knowledge and
10 skill criteria model, based upon the Iowa teaching
11 standards, for the evaluation, the advancement, and
12 for teacher career development purposes pursuant to
13 chapter 284. The model criteria shall further define
14 the characteristics of quality teaching as established
15 by the Iowa teaching standards.
16 Sec. 15. Section 272.2, subsection 1, Code 2001,
17 is amended to read as follows:
18 1. a. License practitioners, who do not hold or
19 receive a license from another professional licensing
20 board, and professional development programs, except
21 for programs developed and offered by practitioner
22 preparation institutions or area education agencies
23 and approved by the state board of education.
24 Licensing authority includes the authority to
25 establish criteria for the licenses, including but not
26 limited to, establish issuance and renewal
27 requirements, creation of create application and
28 renewal forms, creation of create licenses that
29 authorize different instructional functions or
30 specialties, development of develop a code of
31 professional rights and responsibilities, practice,
32 and ethics, and the authority to develop any other
33 classifications, distinctions, and procedures which
34 may be necessary to exercise licensing duties. A code
35 of professional rights and responsibilities, practice,
36 and ethics shall address but not be limited to the
37 habitual failure of a practitioner to fulfill
38 contractual obligations under section 279.13.
39 b. Notwithstanding section 272.28, subsection 1, a
40 teacher shall be licensed in accordance with rules
41 adopted pursuant to chapter 272, Code 2001, if the
42 teacher successfully completes a beginning teacher
43 mentoring program approved pursuant to chapter 256E on
44 or before June 30, 2002, or is employed by a school
45 district that does not offer a beginning teacher
46 mentoring and induction program approved in accordance
47 with this chapter during the school year beginning
48 July 1, 2001.
49 c. Notwithstanding section 272.28, subsection 1, a
50 teacher shall receive an educational license if the
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1 teacher meets the licensing requirements of this
2 chapter and, prior to July 1, 2003, successfully
3 completes a two-year beginning teacher mentoring and
4 induction program approved pursuant to this chapter.
5 Sec. 16. Section 272.2, Code 2001, is amended by
6 adding the following new subsection:
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