# Presentation: 725850

##  Highly Qualified Staff

-  Highly Qualified Staff

- Title I, as amended by the No Child Left Behind Act, sets high standards that teachers and para-professionals must meet.

## Highly Qualified Teachers

- All teachers of CORE academic subjects hired after the first day of the 2002-2003 school year and teaching in a program supported with Title I, Part A funds must be “highly qualified.”
- All teachers teaching in CORE academic subjects must be highly qualified by 2005-2006.

## Highly Qualified Teachers

- CORE academic subjects means English, reading or language arts, mathematics, science, foreign languages, civics and government, economics, arts, history, and geography.

## A Program Supported with Part A Funds Means

- Teacher paid with Title I funds in a targeted assistance school
- Any teacher in a schoolwide school
- A teacher employed with Part A funds to provide services to eligible private school students

## Highly Qualified Teachers

- Must have full State certification or have passed teacher licensing exam, and hold a license to teach.
- Certification or licensure requirements have not been waived on an emergency, temporary, or provisional basis.

## Highly Qualified Teachers

- Teacher can fulfill certification or licensure requirements if--
- The teacher has fulfilled certification/licensure requirements applicable to the years of experience the teacher possesses.

## Highly Qualified Teachers

- Teacher can fulfill certification or licensure requirements if--
- The teacher participates in an alternate route to certification program that meets certain requirements.

## Alternate Route to Certification

- Teachers--
- Must Receive High-quality professional development
- Must receive intensive supervision
- May works as a teacher for period not to exceed 3 years
- Must make satisfactory progress to full certification

## Highly Qualified Teachers

- New teachers
- Elementary—Bachelor’s degree and demonstrated competence in reading, math, writing, and other areas of elementary curriculum.
- Secondary—Bachelor’s degree and demonstrated competence in academic subjects which the teacher teaches.

## Highly Qualified Teachers

- Existing teachers
- Bachelor’s degree
- Demonstrated competence in all academic subjects based on a uniform State standard of evaluation (specific criteria)

## Highly Qualified Staff

- Teachers in public charter schools must meet certification/licensure requirements, if any, in the State’s charter school law.

## Highly Qualified Teachers

- SEA/LEA plans must establish annual measurable objectives that demonstrate progress in meeting the 2005-2006 goals.

## Title I Paraprofessionals

- Who is a Title I Paraprofessional?

## Title I paraprofessionals who provide instructional support must have

- A high school diploma or its equivalent
- AND

## Paraprofessionals who provide instructional support must have 

- Paraprofessionals who provide instructional support must have

- Completed two years of study at an institution of higher education;
- 				OR
- Obtained an associates (or higher) degree
- OR
- Demonstrate through a formal State or local assessment, knowledge of and ability to assist in instructing reading, writing and mathematics

## When do the new requirements have to be met?

- All paraprofessionals with instructional duties hired after January 8, 2002 must meet the new requirements.
- Existing paraprofessionals with instructional duties must meet these requirements by 2006
- All paraprofessionals must have a high school diploma or equivalent without regard to the date of hiring.

## Paraprofessionals in schoolwide schools

- All paraprofessionals with instructional duties must comply with the requirements without regard to the source of funding of the position.

## Paraprofessionals in targeted assistance schools

- All paraprofessionals with instructional duties who are paid for with Title I funds must comply with the new requirements.

## The new requirements do NOT apply to

- Individuals with non-instructional roles such as personal care services, clerical services, or cafeteria or playground supervision.

##          Title I Paraprofessionals

- Paraprofessionals who work as translators or whose duties consist solely of parent involvement activities
- Must have a secondary diploma or its equivalent
- Do not have to meet the other requirements

- A paraprofessional who has worked in another school in the district, either Title I or non-Title I, and is transferred to a Title I school is considered to be an existing paraprofessional and must comply with the requirements by 2006.

## Paraprofessionals must work under the direct supervision of a highly qualified teacher

- Teacher plans instructional activities
- Teacher evaluates achievement of students with whom paraprofessionals work
- Paraprofessional works in close and frequent proximity of the teacher

- Both Title I and Title II funds can be used to help teachers and paraprofessionals meet the new requirements

## Highly Qualified Staff

- An LEA must reserve 5 to 10 percent of its Title I funds to help teachers and paraprofessionals become “highly qualified” in fiscal years 2002 and 2003 and at least 5 percent in following years.
- An LEA may use additional funds to support ongoing training and professional development

## Highly Qualified Teachers

- Set aside funds may be used to help non-Title I teachers of core academic subjects in targeted assistance schools become highly qualified under certain circumstances.

## High Quality Teachers

- All Title I teachers in targeted assistance schools are highly qualified or given first priority in obtaining professional development paid for with Title I funds
- The funds are used only to help teachers of core academic subjects in the targeted assistance school

## High Quality Teachers

- The funds are NOT used to help teachers of CORE academic subjects in non-Title I schools.

## Parent’s Right to Know

- LEAs must notify parents of students attending Title I schools that parents may request information on the professional qualification of the student’s classroom teacher

## Parent’s Right to Know

- Whether the teacher meets State qualification/licensure requirements
- Whether the teacher is teaching under emergency or other provisional certification
- The baccalaureate degree major

## Parent’s Right To Know

- Whether the child receives services from a paraprofessional and the paraprofessional’s qualifications.
- Timely notice that child has been taught for four or more consecutive weeks by a teacher of core academic subjects who is not highly qualified.