S-5130

   Amend Senate File 2411 as follows:
   1.  Page 4, by striking lines 1 through 35 and inserting: 
   <final year of the practitioner preparation program.  A student shall be credited a minimum of one week, but not more than fourteen weeks, of work experience as a substitute teacher or a para-educator toward the requirements associated with the fourteen-week student teaching experience, if all of the following requirements are satisfied:
   (a)  The board of educational examiners has issued a substitute license, substitute authorization, or a para-educator certificate to the student.
   (b)  The student works as a substitute teacher or a para-educator for at least one-half of each school day during the student teaching experience.
   (c)  The student’s work experience takes place in the classroom of a cooperating teacher who is appropriately licensed in the subject area and grade level endorsement for which the student is being prepared.
   (d)  The student bears the primary responsibility for planning, instruction, and assessment within the classroom during the student teaching experience.>

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MOLLY DONAHUE