Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 281 - Education Department › Title XIV - Teachers and Professional Licensing › Chapter 79 - Standards for Practitioner and Administrator Preparation Programs › Rule 281-79.2 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 3, July 24, 2024
For purposes of clarity, the following definitions are used
				  throughout the chapter:
"Administrator candidates"
means individuals
				  who are enrolled in practitioner preparation programs leading to administrator
				  licensure.
"Administrator preparation programs"
means
				  the programs of practitioner preparation leading to licensure of
				  administrators.
"Area education agency"
or
"AEA"
means a regional service agency that provides school
				  improvement services for students, families, teachers, administrators and the
				  community.
"BOEE"
means the board of educational
				  examiners, the board responsible for establishing licensure requirements and
				  issuing licenses.
"Candidates"
means individuals who are
				  preparing to become educational practitioners through a practitioner
				  preparation program.
"Clinical experiences"
means a candidate's
				  direct experiences in PK-12 schools. "Clinical experiences" includes field
				  experiences and student teaching or internships.
"College/university supervisors"
means
				  qualified employees or individuals contracted by the college or university
				  offering educator preparation who provide guidance and supervision to
				  candidates during the candidates' clinical experiences in the schools.
"Cooperating administrators"
means school
				  administrators who provide guidance and supervision to administrator candidates
				  during the candidates' clinical experiences in the schools.
"Cooperating teachers"
means appropriately
				  licensed classroom teachers of record who provide guidance and supervision to
				  teacher candidates in the cooperating teachers' classrooms during the
				  candidates' field experiences in the schools.
"Delivery model"
means the form in which the
				  educator preparation program is delivered to candidates and may include
				  conventional campus-based, face-to-face models, distance learning models,
				  off-campus models, programs delivered through consortia arrangements, and
				  programs or elements delivered by contracted outside providers.
"Department"
means the department of
				  education.
"Director"
means director of the
				  department.
"Distance learning"
means a formal education
				  process in which the major portion of the instruction occurs when the learner
				  and the instructor are not in the same place at the same time and occurs
				  through virtually any media, including printed or digital materials, a learning
				  management system (LMS) or online communications.
"Distance learning program"
means a program
				  in which over half of the required courses in the program occur when the
				  learner and the instructor are not in the same place at the same time (more
				  information is contained in the definition of "distance learning"). These
				  programs include those offered by the professional educational unit through a
				  contract with an outside vendor or in a consortium arrangement with other
				  higher education institutions, area education agencies, or other
				  entities.
"Diverse groups"
means one or more groups of
				  individuals possessing certain traits or characteristics, including age, color,
				  creed, national origin, race, religion, marital status, sex, sexual
				  orientation, gender identity, physical attributes, physical or mental ability
				  or disability, ancestry, political party preference, political belief,
				  socioeconomic status or familial status.
"Educator preparation program"
means
				  practitioner preparation program.
"Facility"
means a residential or other
				  setting for a child in which the child receives an appropriate educational
				  program. "Facility" includes a foster care facility as defined in Iowa Code
				  section 237.1, a facility that provides
				  residential treatment pursuant to Iowa Code chapter 125, an approved or
				  licensed shelter care home as defined in Iowa Code section
				  232.2(34), an
				  approved juvenile detention home as defined in Iowa Code section
				  232.2(32)  and
				  a psychiatric medical institution for children as defined in Iowa Code section
				  135H.1.
"Faculty"
means the teaching and supervising
				  staff of a university or college responsible for delivering instruction or
				  providing supervision and feedback to the candidates.
"Institution"
means a college or university
				  in Iowa offering practitioner preparation or an educational organization
				  offering administrator preparation and seeking state board approval of its
				  practitioner preparation program.
"Institutional accrediting agency"
means an
				  institutional accrediting agency recognized by the U.S. Department of
				  Education. Agencies include regional and national accreditors. The department
				  will maintain aweb link to a list of currently approved accreditors on the
				  department's practitioner preparation web page.
"InTASC"
means Interstate Teacher Assessment
				  and Support Consortium, the source of national standards for teachers.
"Intern"
means an individual who is enrolled
				  in a teacher intern preparation program and is currently employed as an intern
				  by an Iowa school district.
"Iowa core"
means a legislatively mandated
				  state initiative that provides local school districts and nonpublic schools a
				  guide to delivering instruction to students based on consistent, challenging
				  and meaningful content.
"Iowa teaching standards"
represents a set
				  of knowledge and skills that reflect evidence of best practices regarding
				  effective teaching as listed in rule
				  281-83.4 (284). The standards
				  serve as the basis for comprehensive evaluations of teachers and professional
				  development plans.
"Leadership preparation program"
means an
				  administrator preparation program.
"Mentor"
means an experienced educator who
				  provides guidance to a practitioner, administrator candidate or novice
				  educator. For intern programs, "mentor" means an individual employed by a
				  school district or area education agency as a classroom teacher, or a retired
				  teacher, who holds a valid license issued under Iowa Code chapter 272. The
				  individual must have a four-year record of successful teaching practice with at
				  least two of the four years on a nonprobationary basis and demonstrate
				  professional commitment to both the improvement of teaching and learning and
				  the development of beginning teachers or teacher interns.
"National professional standards"
means
				  standards developed by nationally recognized organizations that establish best
				  practices for education.
"NELP standards"
means the National
				  Educational Leadership Preparation standards for administrator
				  preparation.
"Novice"
means an individual in an
				  educational position who has no previous experience in the role of that
				  position or who is newly licensed by the BOEE.
"Off-campus program"
means a program offered
				  by a unit on a site other than the main campus. Off-campus programs may be
				  offered in the same state, in other states, or in countries other than the
				  United States.
"Practitioner"
means a teacher,
				  administrator or other school personnel holding a license issued by the
				  BOEE.
"Practitioner candidates"
means individuals
				  who are enrolled in practitioner preparation programs leading to licensure as
				  teachers, as administrators or as other professional school personnel in
				  professions that require a license issued by the BOEE.
"Practitioner preparation programs"
means
				  the programs of practitioner preparation leading to licensure of teachers,
				  administrators and other professional school personnel.
"Program"
means a specific field of
				  specialization leading to a specific endorsement.
"School district"
means a school corporation
				  as defined in Iowa Code chapter 290. A school district is also referred to as a
				  "local education agency" or "LEA."
"State board"
means Iowa state board of
				  education.
"Students"
means PK-12 pupils.
"Teacher candidate"
means an individual who
				  is enrolled in a practitioner preparation program leading to teacher
				  licensure.
"Teacher intern candidate"
means an
				  individual who is enrolled in a teacher intern preparation program leading to
				  teacher intern licensure and who has not yet begun employment as an
				  intern.
"Teacher intern preparation program"
means
				  the program for teacher intern preparation at colleges and universities leading
				  to licensure of teacher interns.
"Unit"
means the organizational entity
				  within an institution with the responsibility of administering and delivering
				  all practitioner preparation programs.