California Code of Regulations › Title 5 - Education › Division 1 - California Department of Education › Chapter 11 - Special Programs › Subchapter 20 - Education Technology Staff Development Program › Section 11970 - Definitions

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
For purposes of the Education Technology Staff Development
					 Program pursuant to Education Code sections
					 44730-
					 44731 the
					 following definitions shall apply:
(a)
				  "Action plan" as used in Education Code section
				  44731(d)
				  means a written document that outlines how the use of education technology will
				  be integrated into the curriculum through the incorporation of education
				  technology into any professional development. This plan should explain how
				  education technology will be successfully included in existing professional
				  development programs such as, the Instructional Time and Staff Development
				  Reform Program, the beginning Teacher Support and Assessment Program; the
				  Mentor Teacher Program; the Bilingual Teacher Training Program; Inter-segmental
				  Staff Development; Demonstration Programs in Intensive Instruction; Teacher
				  Instructional Training in Math; Reading Instruction Training in Grades 4-12;
				  Special Education; Administrator Training; and, National Board Certification.
While each participating school must have an action plan
					 for its grades 4 through 8 teachers and staff, the action plan may be developed
					 at the school district level if that is how staff development program decisions
					 have been made historically in the school district.
(b) "Classroom" as used in Education Code
				  section
				  44731(a)
				  means a room in which students in grades 4 through 8 receive core curriculum
				  instruction for some or all of the school day. Core curriculum instruction
				  includes language arts, math, science, and history. Excluded from this
				  definition of classroom are libraries, computer labs, multi-purpose rooms and
				  gymnasiums.
(c) "Internet access"
				  as used in Education Code section
				  44731(a)
				  means a networked connection to the Internet either through (1) one computer in
				  the classroom that is also connected to an LCD panel, television, or other
				  device that allows it to be viewed by the entire class or (2) all the computers
				  in the classroom necessary to meet the definition of "sufficient number of
				  computers in the classroom." The number of classrooms with Internet access is
				  determined on the date the local governing board certifies the application;
				  however, connections to be completed under an E-Rate funding commitment letter
				  by the end of the state fiscal year in which the application for this program
				  is made may also be counted.
(d)
				  "Sufficient number of computers" as used in Education Code section
				  44731(a)
				  means one computer per ten students in the classroom. The number of computers
				  per classroom is determined on the date the local governing board certifies the
				  application.
(e) "Up-to-date
				  computers" as used in Education Code section
				  44731(a)
				  means multimedia computers with access to a CD-ROM, internally or over a
				  network, that have the capacity to access web-based resources.
1. New
					 subchapter 20 (section
					 11970) and section filed 3-23-99 as
					 an emergency; operative 3-23-99 (Register 99, No. 13). A Certificate of
					 Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 7-21-99 or emergency language will be
					 repealed by operation of law on the following day.
2. Certificate of
					 Compliance as to 3-23-99 order transmitted to OAL 7-21-99 and filed 8-31-99
					 (Register 99, No. 36).
Note: Authority cited: Section
						33031,
						Education Code. Reference: Sections
						44730 and
						44731,
						Education Code.