Bill Text: FL H0921 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: State-Approved Teacher Preparation Programs

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2010-04-30 - Died in Committee on PreK-12 Policy (EPC) [H0921 Detail]

Download: Florida-2010-H0921-Introduced.html

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HB 921

1	A bill to be entitled
2	An act relating to state-approved teacher preparation
3	programs; amending s. 1004.04, F.S.; specifying that the
4	State Board of Education adopt rules that require certain
5	students in state-approved teacher preparation programs to
6	assist teachers with low-performing students in reading as
7	part of certain field experiences; providing an effective
8	date.
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10	Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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12	Section 1. Subsection (2) of section 1004.04, Florida
13	Statutes, is amended to read:
14	1004.04 Public accountability and state approval for
15	teacher preparation programs.-
16	(2) UNIFORM CORE CURRICULA.-
17	(a) The State Board of Education shall adopt rules
18	pursuant to ss. 120.536(1) and 120.54 that establish uniform
19	core curricula for each state-approved teacher preparation
20	program.
21	(b) The rules to establish uniform core curricula for each
22	state-approved teacher preparation program must include, but are
23	not limited to, a State Board of Education identified foundation
24	in scientifically researched, knowledge-based reading literacy
25	and computational skills acquisition; classroom management;
26	school safety; professional ethics; educational law; human
27	development and learning; and understanding of the Sunshine
28	State Standards content measured by state achievement tests,
29	reading and interpretation of data, and use of data to improve
30	student achievement.
31	(c) These rules must include the requirement that a
32	student in a state-approved teacher preparation program, as part
33	of a preservice field experience course, internship, or student
34	teaching assignment at the elementary school level, assist
35	teachers who are teaching low-performing students in reading in
36	a public elementary school in the school district in which the
37	program is located.
38	(d)(c) These rules shall not require an additional period
39	of time-to-degree but may be phased in to enable teacher
40	preparation programs to supplant courses, including pedagogy
41	courses, not required by law or State Board of Education rule
42	with the courses and assignments identified pursuant to
43	paragraphs paragraph (b) and (c).
44	Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2010.

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