Highly Qualified Teacher Requirements

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Highly Qualified Teacher Requirements

• NCLB Monitoring
• 2007-08

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Presenter

• Bev Pratt
• Education Specialist
• Oregon Department of Education
• bev.pratt_at_state.or.us
• [phone]

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How has NCLB changed teacher qualification
requirements?

• Required all states who receive Title I-A funds
  to have all core academic teachers highly
  qualified by the end of 2005-06
• Extension given with HQT Plan approved by US
  Department

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What is the definition of a Highly Qualified
Teacher?

• Obtain full state licensure
• Holds a minimum of a bachelors degree
• Demonstrate subject matter competency

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Licenses Considered Full State Certification

• Basic and Standard Licenses
• Initial and Continuing Licenses
• Five Year License
• Approved NCLB Alternative Route Teaching License

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Demonstrating Subject Matter Competency

• Hold an undergraduate or graduate degree in the
  core academic subject matter area or
• Complete coursework equivalent to an
  undergraduate major in the core academic area
  (minimum 34 quarter hours) or
• Passing a rigorous state exam in the core
  academic subject matter area or

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Demonstrating Subject Matter Competency
(continued)

• High Objective Uniform State Standards of
  Evaluation (HOUSSE)

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Core Academic Subjects

• English (Language Arts)
• Mathematics
• Science
• Foreign Language
• The Arts
• Geography
• History
• Civics and Government
• Economics

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What happened to Social Studies?

• Pre 1989
• Post 1989

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Social Studies Teachers are they HQT

• Social Studies endorsement does not make a
  teacher HQ in all 4 areas of social studies
• Passing Praxis tests does make a social studies
  teacher HQ in all 4 areas

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Course Codes for Social Studies

• Middle schools must use 9000 series
• Must use code that most closely represents the
  area being taught
• High schools must use NCES codes
• Must use code that most closely represents the
  area being taught
• Cannot use general social science code

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Alternative Education and HQT

• Must be HQ in each core academic subject they are
  teaching
• Course codes must be used to reflect the
  different core academic areas being taught

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Special Education and HQT

• Only applies if SPED teacher is teaching core
  content
• If core content is 8th grade level or below may
  just pass ORELA
• If core content is above 8th grade must
  demonstrate in each area they are teaching

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Charter Schools and HQT

• Registered teachers
• Licensed teachers

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Staff Assignment Collection

• Opens January 15, 2008
• Collects data regarding courses that each teacher
  is teaching
• Matches course codes to teachers licensure
  information from TSPC
• Closes March 14, 2008

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Charter Schools and HQT Data Collection

• All Charter school teachers must be included in
  Staff Assignment Collection

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Special Education Teachers and HQT Reporting

• Course code must reflect what the teacher is
  teaching

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NCLB Accountability and LEA
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Who needs to be HQ?

• All teachers of core academic subjects
• School does not have to receive Title I funding
• Long term substitutes of 4 or more weeks

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What if my district does not take Title funds?

• Since Oregon takes federal Title funds all core
  academic subject classes must be taught by HQT

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LEA Responsibilities

• District HQT Plan
• Individual Teacher Plans for non HQT

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What if I cannot find a HQT?

• Procedure to follow
• Contact ODE
• Complete Individual Teacher Plan
• Send Copy of Plan to ODE

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Accountability

• If the LEA has failed to make progress toward
  meeting the annual measurable objective (AMO) for
  2 consecutive years the LEA shall develop an
  improvement plan that specifically addresses
  issue that prevented the LEA from meeting the
  AMO. 2141(a)

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Accountability

• HQT Plans
• The SEA enters into an agreement on the use of
  funds with any LEA that has not made progress
  toward meeting its annual measurable objectives
  (AMO) in meeting the highly qualified teacher
  challenge for three consecutive years and has
  also failed to make AYP for three years. 2141 (c)

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Reauthorization

• Things to Watch
• Highly Qualified and Effective Teachers
• HQT and Student Achievement Data
• Elimination of HOUSSETimes Up!
• Equity Plans and Teacher Level Data
• More Linkage to AYP ResultsPossible Offset to
  HQT
• More Flexibility for Rural Districts

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License Inquiry

• http//www.tspc.state.or.us/lookup_query.asp?op9
  id0

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Licensure

• http//www.tspc.state.or.us/new/core/licensure.asp
  ?op10id0

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Questions