Kentucky Administrative Regulations › Title 16 - EDUCATION PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS BOARD › Chapter 6 - Assessment › Section 16 KAR 6:020 - Assessment requirements for occupation-based career and technical education teachers

Current through Register Vol. 51, No. 1, July 1, 2024
RELATES TO:
				KRS
				158.816,
				161.020,
				161.028,
				161.030
NECESSITY, FUNCTION, AND CONFORMITY:
				KRS
				161.030(3)(a) requires that
				all new teachers, including out-of-state teachers with less than two (2) years'
				experience, successfully complete appropriate assessments prior to initial
				certification in Kentucky and serve a one (1) year internship. This
				administrative regulation establishes the assessments and passing scores for
				occupation-based career and technical education teachers certified under
				16
				KAR 2:020.
Section
			 1.
(1) All new information
			 technology, industrial education, health science, human service, and public
			 service teacher applicants, and other applicants for occupation-based career
			 and technical education teacher certificates both with and without a teacher
			 preparation degree, and out-of-state applicants for occupation-based career and
			 technical education certification with less than two (2) years of teaching
			 experience shall successfully complete the appropriate assessments prior to
			 initial Kentucky certification.
(2)
			 Each applicant who has not completed an educator preparation program or does
			 not currently hold a specialized associates degree within the specific
			 technical field of certification, verified by official transcript, shall
			 successfully complete the following assessments for communication skills and
			 general knowledge:
(a) ACT:
1. Reading - score of twenty (20) or
			 higher;
2. Mathematics - score of
			 nineteen (19) or higher; and
3.
			 English (Writing) - score of eighteen (18) or higher;
(b) SAT:
1.
			 Reading - score of 470 or higher on Evidence-Based Reading and
			 Writing;
2. Mathematics - score of
			 460 or higher; and
3. English
			 (Writing) - score of 430 or higher on Evidence-Based Reading and
			 Writing;
(c) Kentucky
			 On-Line Testing (KYOTE):
1. Reading - score
			 of twenty (20) or higher;
2.
			 Mathematics - score of twenty-two (22) or higher on College Readiness
			 Mathematics or score of fourteen (14) or higher on College Algebra;
			 and
3. English (Writing) - score of
			 six (6) or higher; or
(d) General Education Readiness (GED):
1. Reading - score of 165 or higher on
			 Reasoning Through the Language Arts;
2. Mathematics - score of 165 or higher on
			 Mathematical Reasoning; and
3.
			 English (Writing) - score of 165 or higher on Reasoning Through the Language
			 Arts.
(3) All
			 applicants shall demonstrate subject matter competency via passage of the
			 specialty assessment in the occupational area for which certification is to be
			 granted or completion of the appropriate state or national industry licensure,
			 or certification.
(4) The
			 assessments shall be divided into the following three (3) categories:
(a) Industrial education and information
			 technology:
1. National Occupational
			 Competency Testing Institute's (NOCTI) Teacher Occupational Competency Test
			 (TOCT) if one (1) corresponding to the teaching specialty is
			 available;
2. Kentucky Department
			 of Education developed or identified assessment corresponding to the teaching
			 specialty;
3. Appropriate state or
			 national industry licensure or certification; or
4. Minimum postsecondary educational
			 attainment in a related area of study;
(b) Health science and human services:
1. The appropriate state or national industry
			 licensure or certification; or
2.
			 Minimum postsecondary program in a related area of study; or
(c) Public-service; the
			 appropriate state or national industry licensure or certification.