Source: https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/122A.19
Timestamp: 2019-06-19 12:33:45
Document Index: 679489907

Matched Legal Cases: ['art 3', 'art 8', 'art 11', 'art 9', 'art 1', 'art 1', 'art 3']

122A.188 122A.20
The Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board, hereinafter the board, must grant teaching licenses in bilingual education and English as a second language to persons who present satisfactory evidence that they:
(1) possess competence and communicative skills in English and in another language;
(2) possess a bachelor's degree or other academic degree approved by the board, and meet such requirements as to course of study and training as the board may prescribe, consistent with subdivision 4; and
(3) meet all other requirements for a teaching license provided in sections 122A.18 to 122A.184.
Subd. 2.Persons holding teaching licenses.
The board may license a person who holds a teaching license in any tier under sections 122A.181 to 122A.184, respectively, and who presents the board with satisfactory evidence of competence and communicative skills in a language other than English under this section.
(a) For the purpose of licensing bilingual and English as a second language teachers, the board may approve programs at colleges or universities designed for their training.
(b) Programs that prepare English as a second language teachers must provide instruction in implementing research-based practices designed specifically for English learners. The programs must focus on developing English learners' academic language proficiency in English, including oral academic language, giving English learners meaningful access to the full school curriculum, developing culturally relevant teaching practices appropriate for immigrant students, and providing more intensive instruction and resources to English learners with lower levels of academic English proficiency and varied needs, consistent with section 124D.59, subdivisions 2 and 2a.
Any person licensed under this section is eligible for employment by a school board as a teacher in a bilingual education or English as a second language program in which the language for which the person is licensed is taught or used as a medium of instruction. A board may prescribe only those additional qualifications for teachers licensed under this section that are approved by the board.
1977 c 306 s 6; 1980 c 609 art 3 s 4-7; 1986 c 444; 1998 c 397 art 8 s 92-94,101; art 11 s 3; 1999 c 241 art 9 s 9; 2012 c 239 art 1 s 33; 2014 c 272 art 1 s 18; 1Sp2017 c 5 art 3 s 17