Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 10 - Education and Culture › 220a - Cooperating Teacher and Beginning Educator Support and Assessment Programs › Section 10-220a-1 - Definitions

Current through July 10, 2024
Definitions of and requirements for certificates referenced in
				Sections 10-220a-1 to
				10-220a-19,
				inclusive, of these regulations are contained in Sections 10-145d-100 to
				10-145d-306, inclusive, of the Regulations of Connecticut State
				Agencies.
As used in Sections 10-220a-1 to
				10-220a-19,
				inclusive:
(a) "Alternate route
			 beginning teacher" means an individual who initially holds a temporary 90-day
			 certificate and who participates in an alternate route beginning educator
			 program leading to the issuance of a provisional educator
			 certificate.
(b) "Assessment
			 instrument" means the instrument or instruments developed and validated by the
			 Department and based on the Connecticut Teaching Competencies.
(c) "Assessor" means an individual who has
			 successfully completed a Department approved training program for
			 assessors.
(d) "Assessor candidate"
			 means an individual who has been selected for assessor training but has not yet
			 successfully completed such training.
(e) "Beginning educator program" means the
			 support and assessment program, as made available by the Board, required of
			 beginning teachers.
(f) "Beginning
			 teacher" means an individual serving under an initial educator certificate,
			 interim initial educator certificate, temporary 90-day certificate or
			 durational shortage area permit.
(g) "Board" means the Connecticut State Board
			 of Education.
(h) "Board of
			 education" means a local or regional board of education, regional educational
			 service center, unified school district, cooperative arrangement established
			 pursuant to Section
			 10-158a
			 of the General Statutes, approved private special education facility, the
			 Gilbert School, Norwich Free Academy and Woodstock Academy. For the regional
			 vocational-technical school system, "board of education" means the
			 vocational-technical school committee of the Board. In addition, for the
			 cooperating teacher program only, boards of education include the governing
			 bodies of other prekindergarten, elementary and secondary institutions approved
			 by the commissioner.
(i) "Classroom
			 teacher" means an individual who holds a professional educator certificate or a
			 provisional certificate with a minimum of three years of teaching experience
			 and who provides direct instruction to students.
(j) "College supervisor" means the individual
			 designated by a college or university to supervise student teachers.
(k) "Commissioner" means the Connecticut
			 Commissioner of Education.
(l)
			 "Connecticut Teaching Competencies" means those descriptors, as adopted by the
			 Board, of skills and abilities which a teacher should possess.
(m) "Cooperating teacher" means an individual
			 who has been selected and trained to provide support and instructional
			 assistance to a student teacher.
(n) "Cooperating teacher candidate" means an
			 individual who has been selected for training as a cooperating teacher but who
			 has not yet successfully completed such training.
(o) "Cooperating teacher team" means a group
			 of individuals, led by a cooperating teacher, which provides support and
			 instructional assistance to a beginning teacher or group of student
			 teachers.
(p) "Cooperating teacher
			 program" means the program of training, as made available by the Board, which
			 is designed to prepare classroom teachers to serve as cooperating teachers in
			 the student teaching component of a teacher preparation program.
(q) "Department" means the Connecticut State
			 Department of Education.
(r)
			 "District committee" means the committee formed by an employing agent to
			 implement the cooperating teacher program and the support component of the
			 beginning educator program.
(s)
			 "District facilitator" means the professional employee employed in a position
			 requiring a certificate issued by the Board who is appointed by the employing
			 agent to serve as the liaison between the board of education and the Department
			 for the beginning educator program and the cooperating teacher
			 program.
(t) "Employing agent"
			 means the chief executive officer or other official authorized by the chief
			 executive officer or supervising authority of a board of education.
(u) "Mentor" means an individual who has
			 successfully completed a Department approved training program to provide
			 support and instructional assistance to a beginning teacher.
(v) "Mentor candidate" means an individual
			 who has been selected for training as a mentor but has not yet successfully
			 completed such training.
(w)
			 "Mentor team" means a group of individuals, led by a mentor, which provides
			 support and instructional assistance to a beginning teacher or group of
			 beginning teachers.
(x) "School
			 administrator" means a principal, director or other designated administrator of
			 a school building.
(y) "Student
			 teacher" means an individual enrolled in a teacher preparation program and
			 placed in a cooperating teacher's classroom for instruction and practice in
			 teaching.
(z) "Teacher assessor"
			 means a classroom teacher who has successfully completed a department approved
			 training program for assessors.
(aa) "Teacher preparation program" means a
			 planned program of preparation provided by a regionally accredited institution
			 or a Connecticut institution accredited by the Connecticut Board of Governors
			 of Higher Education and which is approved by the Board or other appropriate
			 governing body in the state in which the institution is located.