Code of Maine Rules › 05 - DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION › 071 - EDUCATION - GENERAL › Chapter 225 - ADULT HIGH SCHOOL COMPLETION PROGRAMS › Section 071-225-3 - External Credit Option

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
A. Local
				Educational Agencies (LEAs) in recognition of the scheduling hardships
				encountered by students 18 years of age or older relating to problems of time,
				costs, distance, or lack of child care, may seek authorization to become
				approved sites for the delivery of the External Credit Option. Conditions for
				site approval are as follows:
1. Each LEA
				must have in existence a State approved High School Diploma Program;
2. Each LEA must participate in a training
				session relating to the ECO process prior to site approval;
3. Each LEA must submit to the Division of
				Adult and Community Education an application for ECO approval; the form for
				this application is available through the Division of Adult and Community
				Education; notification of action taken will be made within 60 days of
				submittal. Items to be detailed are as follows:
a. State of need
b. Staff pre-service plan
c. Assurance that the Director and identified
				ECO staff have participated in an approved training session; for this purpose,
				approved is construed to mean offered through or approved by the Adult
				Education Staff Development Project; Directors without prior ECO training
				subsequent to initial site approval must attend an approved training session; a
				trained Director may provide in-house training to replacement staff after
				initial site approval
d.
				Curriculums to be adopted, adapted, or developed
e. Counseling, Testing, Reading Evaluation
				and Placement Plan
f. Sample
				student recordkeeping forms
g. Must
				agree to submit one-year follow-up plan to the Division of Adult &
				Community Education
4.
				Student eligibility for BOO will be:
a.
				minimum of 18 years of age and not enrolled in a public or private day
				school;
b. minimum of sixth grade
				reading level;
c. ability to work
				as a self-directed learner.
5. Student recordkeeping will include:
a. completion of the Personal Educational
				Plan by Director/Counselor with student and instructor input and periodic
				follow-up;
b. completion of the
				Curriculum Record Sheet detailing course activity and periodic
				follow-up;
c. student completion of
				course activity sheets for each credit with progress notation by both student
				and teacher.
6.
				Guidelines for adopting existing curricula and/or development of new curricula
				are as follows:
a. each curriculum will be
				based upon an anticipated range of student completion time of 45-60 clock
				hours;
b. a component of each
				curriculum will be a written statement of specific course goals, instructional
				objectives, materials, estimated completion time, and evaluation
				methods;
c. a second curriculum
				component will be a series of planned "learning experiences" which are specific
				experiences undertaken by the student during each credit course;
d. each student will receive blank activity
				sheets to record completion of assignments, time, and progress notation by both
				student and teacher;
e. a minimum
				of five student/teacher contacts will be required for each course
				credit;
f. designation of suggested
				time frame for completion of each credit is part of the Personal Educational
				Plan.