Amendment H-8007 to HF 2081
Relating to teachers, including the assessments administered to practitioner preparation program admission candidates and to practitioner preparation program students prior to students’ completion of a practitioner preparation program, field experiences, and certain specified licenses for teachers created by the board of educational examiners, and including notice, effective date, and applicability provisions
Adopted · February 28, 2022
Filed February 9, 2022 in the House by
What it changes
- Page 1, after line 9 by inserting: “Sec. ___. Section 256.16, subsection 1, paragraph d, Code 2022, is amended to read as follows: d. Require that each student admitted to an approved practitioner preparation program participate in pre-student teaching field experiences that include both observation and participation in teaching activities in a variety of school settings. These Pre-student teaching field experiences for students participating in an initial teacher preparation program shall comprise a total of at least fifty eighty hours in duration, at least ten hours of which shall occur prior to a student’s acceptance in an approved practitioner preparation program. Pre-student teaching field experiences for students participating in a teacher intern preparation program shall comprise a total of at least fifty hours in duration. The student teaching experience shall be a minimum of fourteen weeks in duration during the student’s final year of the practitioner preparation program. The program shall make every reasonable effort to offer the student teaching experience prior to a student’s last semester, or equivalent, in the program, and to expand the student’s student teaching opportunities beyond one semester or the equivalent.”
- Title page, line 5, after “program,” by inserting “field experiences,”
- By renumbering as necessary.