Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 10 - Education and Culture › 145d - Standards for the Issuance of a Certificate for the Position of School Business Administrator › State Educator Certificates, Permits and Authorizations › Part I - Definitions › Section 10-145d-400 - Definitions

Current through July 10, 2024
As used in Sections 10-145d-400 through
					 10-145d-619,
					 inclusive:
(a) "Adult Education
				  Authorization" means an authorization issued for a period of one year to an
				  adult educator who meets requirements of Sections
				  10-145d-594,
				  10-145d-599
				  or
				  10-145d-604
				  except for fulfilling the assessment requirements in subsections (a) and (b) of
				  Section
				  10-145d-404.
(b) "Alternate Route to Certification
				  Program" means a program of classroom management and instructional
				  methodology.
(c) "Appropriate
				  certificate" means a certificate that the Department determines to be
				  acceptable to serve in the endorsement area.
(d) "Approved CEU provider" means an
				  organization, institution, Board, Board of Education, agency or company
				  authorized to award CEUs for the purpose of continuation of the professional
				  educator certificate.
(e) "Approved
				  institution" means a higher education institution accredited by a regional
				  association of colleges and schools recognized by the United States Secretary
				  of Education or a Connecticut higher education institution accredited by the
				  Board of Governors.
(f) "Approved
				  nonpublic school" means a nonpublic school approved or accredited by the board
				  or by the appropriate governing body in another state or a nationally
				  recognized accrediting association, except that early childhood programs
				  accredited by the National Academy of Early Childhood Programs, within the
				  National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), and
				  Connecticut Birth to Three Programs approved by the Department of Mental
				  Retardation shall be considered appropriate for purposes of teaching
				  experience, field experience, internship, or student teaching.
(g) "Approved private special education
				  facility" means a private special education facility approved by the
				  Board.
(h) "Approved program" means
				  a planned program of professional preparation completed at a regionally
				  accredited higher education institution, which is state approved.
(i) "Assessment" means prior to January 1,
				  1995, CONNCEPT, CONNTENT, CONNECT or BEST; on January 1, 1995 and thereafter,
				  PRAXIS I, PRAXIS II, CONNECT or BEST.
(j) "Beginning educator program" or "BEST"
				  (Beginning Educator Support and Training Program) means such support and
				  assessment program as may have been made available by the Board for holders of
				  initial educator certificates, durational shortage area permits, and temporary
				  90-day certificates.
(k)
				  "Bilingual" means the ability to read, write, speak and understand two
				  languages fluently.
(l) "Board"
				  means the Connecticut State Board of Education.
(m) "Board of education" means local and
				  regional boards of education, or the appropriate governing bodies of regional
				  educational service centers, unified school districts, cooperative arrangements
				  established pursuant to Section
				  10-158a
				  of the Connecticut general statutes, the regional vocational-technical school
				  system, approved private special education facilities, and the Gilbert School,
				  Norwich Free Academy and Woodstock Academy.
(n) "Board of Governors" means the
				  Connecticut Board of Governors of Higher Education.
(o) "Certificate of eligibility" means a
				  certificate issued to a person who meets all the preparation and eligibility
				  requirements for an initial educator certificate, including assessment, if
				  appropriate. The certificate of eligibility does not authorize service for a
				  Board but verifies eligibility for an initial educator certificate.
(p) "CEU" means continuing education
				  unit.
(q) "CEU equivalent" means
				  credit awarded by an employing agent of a board of education, or the
				  Commissioner or the Commissioner's designee of the following state agencies:
				  Education, Human Resources, Mental Retardation, Mental Health, Corrections and
				  the Board of Education and Services for the Blind, to its employees for
				  successful completion of professional development activities based on 10
				  contact hours of participation in a planned continuing education experience
				  other than an activity granted CEU credit.
(r) "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of
				  Education.
(s) "Comprehensive high
				  school" means any public secondary school except a vocational-technical
				  school.
(t) "CONNCEPT" means, prior
				  to January 1, 1995, the Connecticut Competency Examination for Prospective
				  Teachers, or an equivalent reading, writing, and mathematics competency
				  examination, as determined by the Board.
(u) "CONNECT" means Connecticut Elementary
				  Certification Test or an appropriate elementary education subject area
				  assessment, as determined by the Board.
(v) "CONNTENT" means, prior to January 1,
				  1995, subject knowledge, competency assessment, or an appropriate subject area
				  assessment, as determined by the Board.
(w) "Contact hour" means 60 minutes of
				  instruction or other involvement in a professional development experience,
				  exclusive of activities not directly related to the instructional
				  experience.
(x) "Continuation"
				  means reissuance of a professional educator certificate.
(y) "Continuing education unit" means credit
				  awarded by an approved CEU provider for successful completion of professional
				  development activities based on 10 contact hours of participation.
(z) "Cooperative work education" means a
				  program in vocational areas where students alternate between school and
				  on-the-job training.
(aa)
				  "Department" means the Connecticut State Department of Education.
(bb) "Diversified occupations" means a
				  program that provides on-the-job training in multiple occupational areas not
				  covered by existing vocational education programs in the school.
(cc) "Durational shortage area permit" means
				  a permit issued on and after July 1, 1989, for a period of one year to serve in
				  lieu of a certificate to a person who meets the requirements of Sections
				  10-145d-421
				  and
				  10-145d-422.
(dd) "Elementary academic subjects" means all
				  subjects taught in elementary schools except those requiring special subject
				  certificates.
(ee) "Employing
				  agent" means the chief executive officer or other official authorized by the
				  chief executive officer of a board of education, or supervising authority of an
				  approved nonpublic school, out-of-state school or nonpublic school approved by
				  the appropriate governing body in another state.
(ff) "Equivalent" means qualifications
				  determined by the Department to be reasonably comparable to those specifically
				  listed as required for certification.
(gg) "Experience" means appropriate
				  professional or work activity that is prerequisite or pursuant to the issuance
				  of a certificate which, except for the provisions of Section
				  10-145d-414
				  of these regulations, shall be accepted in accordance with the following: more
				  than half time of what constitutes a full assignment as defined by the
				  employing agent shall be deemed to constitute full time and half time or less
				  shall be deemed to constitute half time.
(hh) "Extension" means issuance of a
				  certificate to complete specific requirements as defined in subsections (b),
				  (i), (j) or (k) of Section
				  10-145d-427
				  and Section
				  10-145d-615.
(ii) "Full time" means a teacher's employment
				  in a position for more than half of what constitutes a full assignment as
				  defined by the employing agent, except that for purposes of adult education
				  instruction in accordance with Sections
				  10-145d-592 through
				  10-145d-606,
				  inclusive, full time means a teacher's employment in an adult education program
				  for a minimum of 360 student contact hours per year.
(jj) "General conditions" means applicable
				  requirements generic to all types of certificates described in Sections
				  10-145d-401
				  to
				  10-145d-408,
				  inclusive.
(kk) "Initial educator
				  certificate" means a license to teach issued on and after July 1, 1989, to a
				  person who has successfully met the preparation and eligibility requirements
				  specified by the Board for entrance into a beginning educator program, as
				  appropriate, and who has met the requirements of Section
				  10-145d-412.
(ll) "Interim educator certificate" means a
				  license to teach issued to a person who has met the requirements of Section
				  10-145d-412,
				  Section
				  10-145d-413,
				  Section
				  10-145d-415
				  and Section
				  10-145d-417,
				  as appropriate.
(mm) "Long-Term
				  Substitute" means a person serving in the employ of a board of education in the
				  same assignment for more than 40 school days.
(nn) "Marketing education" means a program
				  that prepares students for employment in occupations concerned with the
				  distribution, marketing and sale of goods.
(oo) "Noncredit mandated programs" means
				  General Educational Development (GED) and the Adult Basic Education
				  (ABE).
(pp) "Part time" means a
				  teacher's employment in a position half time or less of what constitutes a full
				  assignment as defined by the employing agent, except that for purposes of adult
				  education instruction in accordance with Sections
				  10-145d-592 through
				  10-145d-606,
				  inclusive, part time means a teacher's employment in an adult education program
				  for less than 360 student contact hours per school year. Part time experience
				  shall be deemed to be equivalent to half time.
(qq) "Permanent teaching certificate" means a
				  license to teach issued prior to November 1, 1960. This certificate shall no
				  longer be valid after July 1, 1989, except for a substitute teacher
				  authorization or a coaching permit.
(rr) "Practicum" means supervised field or
				  clinical training in an educationally suitable placement as determined by an
				  approved institution.
(ss) "PRAXIS
				  I" means, on or after January 1, 1995, the state reading, writing and
				  mathematics competency examination or an equivalent, as determined by the
				  board.
(tt) "PRAXIS II" means, on
				  or after January 1, 1995, subject knowledge, competency assessment, or an
				  appropriate subject area assessment, as determined by the board.
(uu) "Professional Education" means courses
				  taken under the auspices of an education department of an approved institution
				  or courses accepted by the education department of an approved institution as
				  being equivalent to those offered at the education department of an approved
				  institution.
(vv) "Professional
				  educator certificate" means a license to teach, issued on and after July 1,
				  1989, to a person who has met the requirements of Section
				  10-145d-417.
(ww) "Provisional educator certificate" means
				  a license to teach issued on and after July 1, 1989, to a person who has met
				  the requirements of Section
				  10-145d-415.
(xx) "Provisional teaching certificate" means
				  a license to teach issued prior to July 1, 1989.
(yy) "Regionally accredited" means accredited
				  by a regional association of colleges and schools recognized by the United
				  States Secretary of Education.
(zz)
				  "School month" means any month or part of a month in which school is in
				  session, which would include, where appropriate, summer school.
(aaa) "School year" means September 1 to
				  August 31.
(bbb) "Secondary
				  academic subjects" means those subjects taught at the secondary level,
				  including business, English, foreign languages, history and social studies,
				  mathematics and science.
(ccc)
				  "Standard teaching certificate" means a license to teach issued prior to July
				  1, 1989. This certificate shall no longer be valid after July 1, 1989, except
				  for a substitute teacher authorization or a coaching permit.
(ddd) "State Department of Education" means
				  the Connecticut State Department of Education.
(eee) "State education agency" means the
				  state agency legally charged with the responsibility for elementary and
				  secondary education in the public schools of a state.
(fff) "Student teaching" means supervised
				  full day practice teaching, with a trained cooperating teacher, as part of a
				  teacher preparation program in a school setting of 10 or more weeks, following
				  the completion of a minimum of 12 semester hours of credit in professional
				  education in a teacher preparation program.
(ggg) "Successful teaching or service" means
				  successful full time professional educational experience or its equivalent, as
				  determined by the employing agent, as a teacher, administrator or special
				  service staff member.
(hhh)
				  "Summative evaluation" means that formal evaluation which is made by an
				  individual, taking into account various components of formative evaluation data
				  such as peer and supervisory observations.
(iii) "Technology education" means a program
				  to provide an understanding of technology as it relates to the areas of
				  construction, transportation, communication and manufacturing.
(jjj) "Temporary 90-day certificate" means a
				  certificate to teach issued on and after July 1, 1988, and valid for 90 school
				  days, to a person who has met the requirements of Section
				  10-145d-414.
(kkk) "Trade and industrial occupational
				  subjects in comprehensive high schools" means a program for entry-level
				  occupations in skilled trades areas.
(lll) "Year" means 12 consecutive
				  months.