House File 2385 - Reprinted HOUSE FILE 2385 BY COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION (SUCCESSOR TO HF 2208) (As Amended and Passed by the House March 13, 2012 ) A BILL FOR An Act providing for the licensure of applicants with 1 professional employment experience in a profession related 2 to science, mathematics, engineering, or technology, 3 as teachers for secondary level science, mathematics, 4 engineering, or technology courses. 5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 6 HF 2385 (3) 84 kh/rj

H.F. 2385 Section 1. Section 272.2, Code Supplement 2011, is amended 1 by adding the following new subsection: 2 NEW SUBSECTION . 19. Adopt rules to license as a secondary 3 teacher endorsed to teach only science, mathematics, 4 engineering, or technology courses at the grade nine through 5 grade twelve level, an applicant who has not graduated from 6 an approved practitioner preparation program but who, at a 7 minimum, holds a bachelor’s degree with a major course of 8 study in science, mathematics, engineering, or technology from 9 an accredited postsecondary institution; has successfully 10 completed at least one semester credit hour in an online 11 methodology course at the university of northern Iowa; has at 12 least six thousand hours of successful, recent, and relevant 13 employment experience in a profession related to science, 14 mathematics, engineering, or technology; and successfully 15 passes the educational testing services’ Praxis II subject 16 examination for biology and general science if the endorsement 17 sought is to teach a science course, or the educational 18 testing services’ Praxis II mathematics content and knowledge 19 examination if the endorsement sought is for mathematics. 20 -1- HF 2385 (3) 84 kh/rj 1/ 1