It is essential to remember that the IPSB teacher education reform project is designed around performance-based standards. The developmental levels, for licensing purposes, need a P-12 connection and should respect school configurations at the local level, while ensuring that educators will be thoroughly prepared for the developmental levels which they will teach. The Licensure Committee recommends a single Professional Educator License. It will be evidence of demonstrated proficiency in one or more content standards, and one or more developmental level standards. The IPSB definitions reflect initial licensure in Indiana.
School corporations maintain grade level configurations that logically serve their needs.
Therefore, to serve this need, the development level competencies reflected in the school setting designations on the license should be flexible enough to reflect each school corporation's organizational pattern. These definitions allow school districts to make appropriate decisions on staffing based on school configurations. Should school configurations change, this idea could be amended and updated through the IPSB plan to keep the educator preparation system current. The following pages detail the various licensing categories, the school settings and content areas which will appear on the license for an educator licensed in each. Note that this Framework reflects how a newly issued license will appear.