1. For purposes of this chapter and for developing teacher evaluation criteria under chapter 279, the Iowa teaching standards are as follows:
a. Demonstrates ability to enhance academic performance and support for and implementation of the school district's student achievement goals.
b. Demonstrates competence in content knowledge appropriate to the teaching position.
c. Demonstrates competence in planning and preparing for instruction.
d. Uses strategies to deliver instruction that meets the multiple learning needs of students.
e. Uses a variety of methods to monitor student learning.
f. Demonstrates competence in classroom management.
g. Engages in professional growth.
h. Fulfills professional responsibilities established by the school district.
2. A school board shall provide for the following:
a. By July 1, 2002, for purposes of comprehensive evaluations for beginning teachers required to allow beginning teachers to progress to career teachers, standards and criteria that are the Iowa teaching standards specified in subsection 1 and the model criteria for the Iowa teaching standards developed by the department in accordance with section 256.9, subsection 50. These standards and criteria shall be set forth in an instrument provided by the department. The comprehensive evaluation and instrument are not subject to negotiations or grievance procedures pursuant to chapter 20 or determinations made by the board of directors under section 279.14. A local school board and its certified bargaining representative may negotiate, pursuant to chapter 20, evaluation and grievance procedures for beginning teachers that are not in conflict with this chapter. If, in accordance with section 279.19, a beginning teacher appeals the determination of a school board to an adjudicator under section 279.17, the adjudicator selected shall have successfully completed training related to the Iowa teacher standards, the model criteria adopted by the state board of education in accordance with subsection 3, as enacted by this Act, and any additional training required under rules adopted by the public employment relations board in cooperation with the state board of education.
b. By July 1, 2004, for purposes of performance reviews for teachers other than beginning teachers, evaluations that contain, at a minimum, the Iowa teaching standards specified in subsection 1, as well as the model criteria for the Iowa teaching standards developed by the department in accordance with section 256.9, subsection 50. A local school board and its certified bargaining representative may negotiate, pursuant to chapter 20, additional teaching standards and criteria. A local school board and its certified bargaining representative may negotiate, pursuant to chapter 20, evaluation and grievance procedures for teachers other than beginning teachers that are not in conflict with this chapter.
3. The state board shall adopt by rule pursuant to chapter 17A the model criteria developed by the department in accordance with section 256.9, subsection 50.
2001 Acts, ch 161, §4; 2002 Acts, ch 1152, §9, 10
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