Senate Study Bill 3019 - Introduced SENATE/HOUSE FILE _____ BY (PROPOSED DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION BILL) A BILL FOR An Act relating to qualifications for community college career 1 and technical education instructors. 2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 3 TLSB 5405XD (3) 88 kh/jh
S.F. _____ H.F. _____ Section 1. Section 260C.48, subsection 1, paragraph a, Code 1 2020, is amended to read as follows: 2 a. (1) Instructors in the subject area of career and 3 technical education shall be registered, certified, or 4 licensed in the occupational area in which the state requires 5 registration, certification, or licensure, and shall hold the 6 appropriate registration, certificate, or license for the 7 occupational area in which the instructor is teaching, and 8 shall meet either at least one of the following qualifications: 9 (1) (a) A Possess a baccalaureate or graduate degree in the 10 area or a related area of study or occupational area in which 11 the instructor is teaching classes. 12 (2) (b) Special Possess an associate degree in the 13 career and technical education field of instruction in which 14 the instructor is teaching, if such degree is considered 15 terminal for that field of instruction, and have at least three 16 thousand hours of recent and relevant work experience in the 17 occupational area or related occupational area in which the 18 instructor teaches classes. 19 (c) Have special training and at least six thousand hours of 20 recent and relevant work experience in the occupational area 21 or related occupational area in which the instructor teaches 22 classes if the instructor possesses less than a baccalaureate 23 degree in the area or related area of study or occupational 24 area in which the instructor is teaching classes and the 25 instructor does not meet the requirements of subparagraph (2) . 26 (2) If For purposes of subparagraph divisions (b) and (c), 27 if the instructor is a licensed practitioner who holds a career 28 and technical endorsement under chapter 272 , relevant work 29 experience in the occupational area includes but is not limited 30 to classroom instruction in a career and technical education 31 subject area offered by a school district or accredited 32 nonpublic school. 33 EXPLANATION 34 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 35 -1- LSB 5405XD (3) 88 kh/jh 1/ 2
S.F. _____ H.F. _____ the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly. 1 This bill provides another option by which an instructor may 2 qualify to teach at a community college in the subject area 3 of career and technical education (CTE). The bill permits an 4 instructor to teach CTE classes at a community college if the 5 instructor possesses an associate degree in the CTE field of 6 instruction in which the person is teaching, if such degree 7 is considered terminal for that field of instruction, and the 8 instructor has at least 3,000 hours of recent and relevant work 9 experience in the area in which the instructor teaches classes. 10 Currently, an instructor must have a baccalaureate or 11 graduate degree relating to the area in which the instructor is 12 teaching classes or, if the instructor possesses less than a 13 baccalaureate degree, must have special training and at least 14 6,000 hours of recent and relevant work experience in the area 15 in which the instructor teaches classes. In the latter case, 16 if the instructor is a licensed practitioner who holds a career 17 and technical endorsement under Code chapter 272, classroom 18 instruction can be used to meet the requirement relating to 19 relevant work experience, and the bill applies this language to 20 the new option as well. 21 -2- LSB 5405XD (3) 88 kh/jh 2/ 2