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Relating to practitioner preparation programs, including the duration of the student teaching experience, and including applicability provisions
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 1, 2022
- Stopped: SubcommitteeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2022 session adjourned on May 24, 2022, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary Colleges that train future teachers would change how long their student teaching requirement lasts for certain people. If a student has already worked as a substitute teacher, they can reduce their required student teaching weeks by the amount of time they spent subbing. This rule applies to students who start their teacher training programs on or after July 1, 2021.1
Read the official explanation
This bill relates to practitioner preparation programs, including the duration of the student teaching experience. Current law provides that all higher education institutions providing practitioner preparation are to require students admitted to the higher education institution’s practitioner preparation program to participate in a student teaching experience for a minimum of weeks during the student’s final year of the program. The bill requires the higher education institutions providing these programs to reduce the duration of the student teaching experience for certain specified students who have worked as substitute teachers by the amount of weeks the students worked as substitute teachers. The bill applies to students admitted to an approved practitioner preparation program on or after July 1, 2021.