No funding identified for this panel. Iowa Teaching Standards and Components Establishes the Iowa Teaching Standards that will be used to define good teaching. Fulfills professional responsibilities established by the school district. Department of Education develops models of core knowledge and skill criteria that further define good teaching. Establishes the Iowa Teaching Standards that will be used to define good teaching.
Criteria become exclusive right of school board.
Evaluator Training Establishes evaluator training program to improve skills of Iowa administrators to evaluate teachers. SAME except includes teachers as evaluators. Department of Education required to determine the number of evaluators needed. In second year, FY03, require participating districts to add the equivalent of two days outside of instructional time unless the district has ten or more days. Add two days in first year.