Bill Text: MN SF1493 | 2011-2012 | 87th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Teacher candidates basic skills exam pass requirement
Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 4-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-16 - HF substituted on General Orders HF1770 [SF1493 Detail]
Download: Minnesota-2011-SF1493-Engrossed.html
1.2relating to education; requiring teacher candidates to pass basic skills exam;
1.3amending Minnesota Statutes 2010, sections 122A.18, subdivision 2; 122A.23,
1.4subdivision 2; Minnesota Statutes 2011 Supplement, section 122A.09,
1.5subdivision 4.
1.6BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
1.7 Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2011 Supplement, section 122A.09, subdivision 4,
1.8is amended to read:
1.9 Subd. 4. License and rules. (a) The board must adopt rules to license public school
1.10teachers and interns subject to chapter 14.
1.11(b) The board must adopt rules requiring a person tosuccessfully complete pass a
1.12skills examination in reading, writing, and mathematics as a requirement for initial teacher
1.13licensure. Such rules must require college and universities offering a board-approved
1.14teacher preparation program to provide remedial assistance to persons who did not achieve
1.15a qualifying score on the skills examination, including those for whom English is a second
1.16language. The board must adopt rules requiring a person who enters a board-approved
1.17teacher preparation program on or after January 1, 2014, to pass a skills examination in
1.18reading, writing, and mathematics as a requirement for starting student teaching.
1.19(c) The board must adopt rules to approve teacher preparation programs. The board,
1.20upon the request of a postsecondary student preparing for teacher licensure or a licensed
1.21graduate of a teacher preparation program, shall assist in resolving a dispute between the
1.22person and a postsecondary institution providing a teacher preparation program when the
1.23dispute involves an institution's recommendation for licensure affecting the person or the
1.24person's credentials. At the board's discretion, assistance may include the application
1.25of chapter 14.
2.1(d) The board must provide the leadership and adopt rules for the redesign of teacher
2.2education programs to implement a research based, results-oriented curriculum that
2.3focuses on the skills teachers need in order to be effective. The board shall implement new
2.4systems of teacher preparation program evaluation to assure program effectiveness based
2.5on proficiency of graduates in demonstrating attainment of program outcomes. Teacher
2.6preparation programs including alternative teacher preparation programs under section
2.7122A.245
, among other programs, must include a content-specific, board-approved,
2.8performance-based assessment that measures teacher candidates in three areas: planning
2.9for instruction and assessment; engaging students and supporting learning; and assessing
2.10student learning.
2.11(e) The board must adopt rules requiring candidates for initial licenses tosuccessfully
2.12complete pass an examination of general pedagogical knowledge and examinations of
2.13licensure-specific teaching skills. The rules shall be effective by September 1, 2001.
2.14The rules under this paragraph also must require candidates for initial licenses to teach
2.15prekindergarten or elementary students tosuccessfully complete pass, as part of the
2.16examination of licensure-specific teaching skills, test items assessing the candidates'
2.17knowledge, skill, and ability in comprehensive, scientifically based reading instruction
2.18under section122A.06 , subdivision 4, and their knowledge and understanding of the
2.19foundations of reading development, the development of reading comprehension, and
2.20reading assessment and instruction, and their ability to integrate that knowledge and
2.21understanding.
2.22(f) The board must adopt rules requiring teacher educators to work directly with
2.23elementary or secondary school teachers in elementary or secondary schools to obtain
2.24periodic exposure to the elementary or secondary teaching environment.
2.25(g) The board must grant licenses to interns and to candidates for initial licenses
2.26based on appropriate professional competencies that are aligned with the board's licensing
2.27system and students' diverse learning needs. The board must include these licenses in a
2.28statewide differentiated licensing system that creates new leadership roles for successful
2.29experienced teachers premised on a collaborative professional culture dedicated to meeting
2.30students' diverse learning needs in the 21st century and formalizes mentoring and induction
2.31for newly licensed teachers that is provided through a teacher support framework.
2.32(h) The board must design and implement an assessment system which requires a
2.33candidate for an initial license and first continuing license to demonstrate the abilities
2.34necessary to perform selected, representative teaching tasks at appropriate levels.
2.35(i) The board must receive recommendations from local committees as established
2.36by the board for the renewal of teaching licenses.
3.1(j) The board must grant life licenses to those who qualify according to requirements
3.2established by the board, and suspend or revoke licenses pursuant to sections122A.20 and
3.3214.10
. The board must not establish any expiration date for application for life licenses.
3.4(k) The board must adopt rules that require all licensed teachers who are renewing
3.5their continuing license to include in their renewal requirements further preparation in
3.6the areas of using positive behavior interventions and in accommodating, modifying, and
3.7adapting curricula, materials, and strategies to appropriately meet the needs of individual
3.8students and ensure adequate progress toward the state's graduation rule.
3.9(l) In adopting rules to license public school teachers who provide health-related
3.10services for disabled children, the board shall adopt rules consistent with license or
3.11registration requirements of the commissioner of health and the health-related boards who
3.12license personnel who perform similar services outside of the school.
3.13(m) The board must adopt rules that require all licensed teachers who are renewing
3.14their continuing license to include in their renewal requirements further reading
3.15preparation, consistent with section122A.06, subdivision 4 . The rules do not take effect
3.16until they are approved by law. Teachers who do not provide direct instruction including, at
3.17least, counselors, school psychologists, school nurses, school social workers, audiovisual
3.18directors and coordinators, and recreation personnel are exempt from this section.
3.19(n) The board must adopt rules that require all licensed teachers who are renewing
3.20their continuing license to include in their renewal requirements further preparation
3.21in understanding the key warning signs of early-onset mental illness in children and
3.22adolescents.
3.23EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective the day following final enactment.
3.24 Sec. 2. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 122A.18, subdivision 2, is amended to read:
3.25 Subd. 2. Teacher and support personnel qualifications. (a) The Board of
3.26Teaching must issue licenses under its jurisdiction to persons the board finds to be
3.27qualified and competent for their respective positions.
3.28(b) The board must require a person who enters a board-approved teacher preparation
3.29program before January 1, 2014, tosuccessfully complete pass an examination of skills
3.30in reading, writing, and mathematics before being granted an initial teaching license to
3.31provide direct instruction to pupils in prekindergarten, elementary, secondary, or special
3.32education programs. The board must require colleges and universities offering a board
3.33approved teacher preparation program to provide remedial assistance that includes a
3.34formal diagnostic component to persons enrolled in their institution who did not achieve
3.35a qualifying score on the skills examination, including those for whom English is a
4.1second language. The colleges and universities must provide assistance in the specific
4.2academic areas of deficiency in which the person did not achieve a qualifying score.
4.3To be granted an initial teaching license, the board must require a person who enters
4.4a board-approved teacher preparation program on or after January 1, 2014, to pass an
4.5examination of skills in reading, writing, and mathematics before entering that program.
4.6School districts must provide similar, appropriate, and timely remedial assistance that
4.7includes a formal diagnostic component and mentoring to those persons employed by the
4.8district who completed their teacher education program outside the state of Minnesota,
4.9received a one-year license to teach in Minnesota and did not achieve a qualifying score
4.10on the skills examination, including those persons for whom English is a second language.
4.11The Board of Teaching shall report annually to the education committees of the legislature
4.12on the total number of teacher candidates during the most recent school year taking the
4.13skills examination, the number who achieve a qualifying score on the examination, the
4.14number who do not achieve a qualifying score on the examination, the distribution of all
4.15candidates' scores, the number of candidates who have taken the examination at least once
4.16before, and the number of candidates who have taken the examination at least once before
4.17and achieve a qualifying score.
4.18(c) A person who has completed an approved teacher preparation program and
4.19obtained a one-year license to teach, but has not successfully completed the skills
4.20examination, may renew the one-year license for two additional one-year periods. Each
4.21renewal of the one-year license is contingent upon the licensee:
4.22(1) providing evidence of participating in an approved remedial assistance program
4.23provided by a school district or postsecondary institution that includes a formal diagnostic
4.24component in the specific areas in which the licensee did not obtain qualifying scores; and
4.25(2) attempting to successfully complete the skills examination during the period
4.26of each one-year license.
4.27(d) (c) The Board of Teaching must grant continuing licenses only to those persons
4.28who have met board criteria for granting a continuing license, which includessuccessfully
4.29completing passing the skills examination in reading, writing, and mathematics.
4.30(e) (d) All colleges and universities approved by the board of teaching to prepare
4.31persons for teacher licensure must include in their teacher preparation programs a common
4.32core of teaching knowledge and skills to be acquired by all persons recommended
4.33for teacher licensure. This common core shall meet the standards developed by the
4.34interstate new teacher assessment and support consortium in its 1992 "model standards for
4.35beginning teacher licensing and development." Amendments to standards adopted under
4.36this paragraph are covered by chapter 14. The board of teaching shall report annually to
5.1the education committees of the legislature on the performance of teacher candidates
5.2on common core assessments of knowledge and skills under this paragraph during the
5.3most recent school year.
5.4EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective the day following final enactment.
5.5 Sec. 3. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 122A.23, subdivision 2, is amended to read:
5.6 Subd. 2. Applicants licensed in other states. (a) Subject to the requirements
5.7of sections122A.18, subdivision 8 , and
123B.03 , the Board of Teaching must issue
5.8a teaching license or a temporary teaching license under paragraphs (b) to (e) to an
5.9applicant who holds at least a baccalaureate degree from a regionally accredited college
5.10or university and holds or held a similar out-of-state teaching license that requires the
5.11applicant to successfully complete a teacher preparation program approved by the issuing
5.12state, which includes field-specific teaching methods and student teaching or essentially
5.13equivalent experience.
5.14(b) The Board of Teaching must issue a teaching license to an applicant who:
5.15(1) successfully completed all exams and human relations preparation components
5.16required by the Board of Teaching; and
5.17(2) holds or held an out-of-state teaching license to teach the same content field and
5.18grade levels if the scope of the out-of-state license is no more than one grade level less
5.19than a similar Minnesota license.
5.20(c) The Board of Teaching, consistent with board rules and paragraph (h), must
5.21issue up to three one-year temporary teaching licenses to an applicant who holds or held
5.22an out-of-state teaching license to teach the same content field and grade levels, where
5.23the scope of the out-of-state license is no more than one grade level less than a similar
5.24Minnesota license, but has not successfully completed all exams and human relations
5.25preparation components required by the Board of Teaching.
5.26(d) The Board of Teaching, consistent with board rules, must issue up to three
5.27one-year temporary teaching licenses to an applicant who:
5.28(1) successfully completed all exams and human relations preparation components
5.29required by the Board of Teaching; and
5.30(2) holds or held an out-of-state teaching license to teach the same content field
5.31and grade levels, where the scope of the out-of-state license is no more than one grade
5.32level less than a similar Minnesota license, but has not completed field-specific teaching
5.33methods or student teaching or equivalent experience.
6.1The applicant may complete field-specific teaching methods and student teaching
6.2or equivalent experience by successfully participating in a one-year school district
6.3mentorship program consistent with board-adopted standards of effective practice and
6.4Minnesota graduation requirements.
6.5(e) The Board of Teaching must issue a temporary teaching license for a term of
6.6up to three years only in the content field or grade levels specified in the out-of-state
6.7license to an applicant who:
6.8(1) successfully completed all exams and human relations preparation components
6.9required by the Board of Teaching; and
6.10(2) holds or held an out-of-state teaching license where the out-of-state license is
6.11more limited in the content field or grade levels than a similar Minnesota license.
6.12(f) The Board of Teaching must not issue to an applicant more than three one-year
6.13temporary teaching licenses under this subdivision.
6.14(g) The Board of Teaching must not issue a license under this subdivision if the
6.15applicant has not attained the additional degrees, credentials, or licenses required in a
6.16particular licensure field.
6.17(h) The Board of Teaching must require an applicant for a teaching license or a
6.18temporary teaching license under this subdivision to pass a skills examination in reading,
6.19writing, and mathematics before the board issues the license.
6.20EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective the day following final enactment.
1.3amending Minnesota Statutes 2010, sections 122A.18, subdivision 2; 122A.23,
1.4subdivision 2; Minnesota Statutes 2011 Supplement, section 122A.09,
1.5subdivision 4.
1.6BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
1.7 Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2011 Supplement, section 122A.09, subdivision 4,
1.8is amended to read:
1.9 Subd. 4. License and rules. (a) The board must adopt rules to license public school
1.10teachers and interns subject to chapter 14.
1.11(b) The board must adopt rules requiring a person to
1.12skills examination in reading, writing, and mathematics as a requirement for initial teacher
1.13licensure. Such rules must require college and universities offering a board-approved
1.14teacher preparation program to provide remedial assistance to persons who did not achieve
1.15a qualifying score on the skills examination, including those for whom English is a second
1.16language. The board must adopt rules requiring a person who enters a board-approved
1.17teacher preparation program on or after January 1, 2014, to pass a skills examination in
1.18reading, writing, and mathematics as a requirement for starting student teaching.
1.19(c) The board must adopt rules to approve teacher preparation programs. The board,
1.20upon the request of a postsecondary student preparing for teacher licensure or a licensed
1.21graduate of a teacher preparation program, shall assist in resolving a dispute between the
1.22person and a postsecondary institution providing a teacher preparation program when the
1.23dispute involves an institution's recommendation for licensure affecting the person or the
1.24person's credentials. At the board's discretion, assistance may include the application
1.25of chapter 14.
2.1(d) The board must provide the leadership and adopt rules for the redesign of teacher
2.2education programs to implement a research based, results-oriented curriculum that
2.3focuses on the skills teachers need in order to be effective. The board shall implement new
2.4systems of teacher preparation program evaluation to assure program effectiveness based
2.5on proficiency of graduates in demonstrating attainment of program outcomes. Teacher
2.6preparation programs including alternative teacher preparation programs under section
2.8performance-based assessment that measures teacher candidates in three areas: planning
2.9for instruction and assessment; engaging students and supporting learning; and assessing
2.10student learning.
2.11(e) The board must adopt rules requiring candidates for initial licenses to
2.12
2.13licensure-specific teaching skills. The rules shall be effective by September 1, 2001.
2.14The rules under this paragraph also must require candidates for initial licenses to teach
2.15prekindergarten or elementary students to
2.16examination of licensure-specific teaching skills, test items assessing the candidates'
2.17knowledge, skill, and ability in comprehensive, scientifically based reading instruction
2.18under section
2.19foundations of reading development, the development of reading comprehension, and
2.20reading assessment and instruction, and their ability to integrate that knowledge and
2.21understanding.
2.22(f) The board must adopt rules requiring teacher educators to work directly with
2.23elementary or secondary school teachers in elementary or secondary schools to obtain
2.24periodic exposure to the elementary or secondary teaching environment.
2.25(g) The board must grant licenses to interns and to candidates for initial licenses
2.26based on appropriate professional competencies that are aligned with the board's licensing
2.27system and students' diverse learning needs. The board must include these licenses in a
2.28statewide differentiated licensing system that creates new leadership roles for successful
2.29experienced teachers premised on a collaborative professional culture dedicated to meeting
2.30students' diverse learning needs in the 21st century and formalizes mentoring and induction
2.31for newly licensed teachers that is provided through a teacher support framework.
2.32(h) The board must design and implement an assessment system which requires a
2.33candidate for an initial license and first continuing license to demonstrate the abilities
2.34necessary to perform selected, representative teaching tasks at appropriate levels.
2.35(i) The board must receive recommendations from local committees as established
2.36by the board for the renewal of teaching licenses.
3.1(j) The board must grant life licenses to those who qualify according to requirements
3.2established by the board, and suspend or revoke licenses pursuant to sections
3.4(k) The board must adopt rules that require all licensed teachers who are renewing
3.5their continuing license to include in their renewal requirements further preparation in
3.6the areas of using positive behavior interventions and in accommodating, modifying, and
3.7adapting curricula, materials, and strategies to appropriately meet the needs of individual
3.8students and ensure adequate progress toward the state's graduation rule.
3.9(l) In adopting rules to license public school teachers who provide health-related
3.10services for disabled children, the board shall adopt rules consistent with license or
3.11registration requirements of the commissioner of health and the health-related boards who
3.12license personnel who perform similar services outside of the school.
3.13(m) The board must adopt rules that require all licensed teachers who are renewing
3.14their continuing license to include in their renewal requirements further reading
3.15preparation, consistent with section
3.16until they are approved by law. Teachers who do not provide direct instruction including, at
3.17least, counselors, school psychologists, school nurses, school social workers, audiovisual
3.18directors and coordinators, and recreation personnel are exempt from this section.
3.19(n) The board must adopt rules that require all licensed teachers who are renewing
3.20their continuing license to include in their renewal requirements further preparation
3.21in understanding the key warning signs of early-onset mental illness in children and
3.22adolescents.
3.23EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective the day following final enactment.
3.24 Sec. 2. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 122A.18, subdivision 2, is amended to read:
3.25 Subd. 2. Teacher and support personnel qualifications. (a) The Board of
3.26Teaching must issue licenses under its jurisdiction to persons the board finds to be
3.27qualified and competent for their respective positions.
3.28(b) The board must require a person who enters a board-approved teacher preparation
3.29program before January 1, 2014, to
3.30in reading, writing, and mathematics before being granted an initial teaching license to
3.31provide direct instruction to pupils in prekindergarten, elementary, secondary, or special
3.32education programs. The board must require colleges and universities offering a board
3.33approved teacher preparation program to provide remedial assistance that includes a
3.34formal diagnostic component to persons enrolled in their institution who did not achieve
3.35a qualifying score on the skills examination, including those for whom English is a
4.1second language. The colleges and universities must provide assistance in the specific
4.2academic areas of deficiency in which the person did not achieve a qualifying score.
4.3To be granted an initial teaching license, the board must require a person who enters
4.4a board-approved teacher preparation program on or after January 1, 2014, to pass an
4.5examination of skills in reading, writing, and mathematics before entering that program.
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4.11The Board of Teaching shall report annually to the education committees of the legislature
4.12on the total number of teacher candidates during the most recent school year taking the
4.13skills examination, the number who achieve a qualifying score on the examination, the
4.14number who do not achieve a qualifying score on the examination, the distribution of all
4.15candidates' scores, the number of candidates who have taken the examination at least once
4.16before, and the number of candidates who have taken the examination at least once before
4.17and achieve a qualifying score.
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4.28who have met board criteria for granting a continuing license, which includes
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4.31persons for teacher licensure must include in their teacher preparation programs a common
4.32core of teaching knowledge and skills to be acquired by all persons recommended
4.33for teacher licensure. This common core shall meet the standards developed by the
4.34interstate new teacher assessment and support consortium in its 1992 "model standards for
4.35beginning teacher licensing and development." Amendments to standards adopted under
4.36this paragraph are covered by chapter 14. The board of teaching shall report annually to
5.1the education committees of the legislature on the performance of teacher candidates
5.2on common core assessments of knowledge and skills under this paragraph during the
5.3most recent school year.
5.4EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective the day following final enactment.
5.5 Sec. 3. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 122A.23, subdivision 2, is amended to read:
5.6 Subd. 2. Applicants licensed in other states. (a) Subject to the requirements
5.7of sections
5.8a teaching license or a temporary teaching license under paragraphs (b) to (e) to an
5.9applicant who holds at least a baccalaureate degree from a regionally accredited college
5.10or university and holds or held a similar out-of-state teaching license that requires the
5.11applicant to successfully complete a teacher preparation program approved by the issuing
5.12state, which includes field-specific teaching methods and student teaching or essentially
5.13equivalent experience.
5.14(b) The Board of Teaching must issue a teaching license to an applicant who:
5.15(1) successfully completed all exams and human relations preparation components
5.16required by the Board of Teaching; and
5.17(2) holds or held an out-of-state teaching license to teach the same content field and
5.18grade levels if the scope of the out-of-state license is no more than one grade level less
5.19than a similar Minnesota license.
5.20(c) The Board of Teaching, consistent with board rules and paragraph (h), must
5.21issue up to three one-year temporary teaching licenses to an applicant who holds or held
5.22an out-of-state teaching license to teach the same content field and grade levels, where
5.23the scope of the out-of-state license is no more than one grade level less than a similar
5.24Minnesota license, but has not successfully completed all exams and human relations
5.25preparation components required by the Board of Teaching.
5.26(d) The Board of Teaching, consistent with board rules, must issue up to three
5.27one-year temporary teaching licenses to an applicant who:
5.28(1) successfully completed all exams and human relations preparation components
5.29required by the Board of Teaching; and
5.30(2) holds or held an out-of-state teaching license to teach the same content field
5.31and grade levels, where the scope of the out-of-state license is no more than one grade
5.32level less than a similar Minnesota license, but has not completed field-specific teaching
5.33methods or student teaching or equivalent experience.
6.1The applicant may complete field-specific teaching methods and student teaching
6.2or equivalent experience by successfully participating in a one-year school district
6.3mentorship program consistent with board-adopted standards of effective practice and
6.4Minnesota graduation requirements.
6.5(e) The Board of Teaching must issue a temporary teaching license for a term of
6.6up to three years only in the content field or grade levels specified in the out-of-state
6.7license to an applicant who:
6.8(1) successfully completed all exams and human relations preparation components
6.9required by the Board of Teaching; and
6.10(2) holds or held an out-of-state teaching license where the out-of-state license is
6.11more limited in the content field or grade levels than a similar Minnesota license.
6.12(f) The Board of Teaching must not issue to an applicant more than three one-year
6.13temporary teaching licenses under this subdivision.
6.14(g) The Board of Teaching must not issue a license under this subdivision if the
6.15applicant has not attained the additional degrees, credentials, or licenses required in a
6.16particular licensure field.
6.17(h) The Board of Teaching must require an applicant for a teaching license or a
6.18temporary teaching license under this subdivision to pass a skills examination in reading,
6.19writing, and mathematics before the board issues the license.
6.20EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective the day following final enactment.
