Oklahoma Administrative Code › Title 612 - State Department of Rehabilitation Services › Chapter 20 - Special Schools › Subchapter 2 - Contracted Instructional Personnel › Section 612:20-2-2 - Definitions

Current through Vol. 41, No. 20, July 1, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this Subchapter,
				  shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
				  otherwise:
"Administrator"
means a member of the contracted
				  administrative staff who devotes a majority of his/her time to service in an
				  administrative or supervisory position.
"Career Teacher"
means a teacher who has
				  completed three (3) or more consecutive complete school years at OSB or OSD or
				  who otherwise meets the definition of a career teacher as provided for in the
				  Oklahoma School Code.
"Contracted administrative personnel or staff"
means those employees hired under contract and qualified according to the
				  requirements of the State Department of Education (where applicable) to serve
				  primarily in an administrative or supervisory capacity pursuant to 10 O.S. §
									1419(B).
"Contracted instructional personnel or staff"
means Department employees hired under contract and qualified according to the
				  requirements of the State Department of Education to serve in an instructional
				  capacity pursuant to 10 O.S. §
									1419(B).
"Dismissal"
means the discontinuance of the
				  service of an administrator or teacher during the term of a written
				  contract.
"Entry-year teacher"
means any certified or
				  licensed teacher who is employed by a special school to serve as a classroom
				  teacher under the guidance and assistance of a teacher consultant and an
				  entry-year assistance committee.
"Nonreemployment"
means the nonrenewal of an
				  administrator's or teacher's contract upon expiration of the contract.
"Principal"
means any person other than a
				  superintendent of schools having an administrative certificate, and supervisory
				  or administrative authority over any school or school building having two or
				  more teachers. A teaching principal is a principal who devotes at least
				  one-half the time school is in session to classroom teaching.
"Probationary Teacher"
means a teacher who has
				  completed fewer than three (3) or more consecutive complete school years at OSB
				  or OSD or who otherwise meets the definition of a probationary teacher as
				  provided for in the Oklahoma School Code.
"Special school(s)"
means the Oklahoma School
				  for the Blind and/or the Oklahoma School for the Deaf.
"Student teacher"
means any student who is
				  enrolled in an institution of higher learning approved by the State Board of
				  Education for teacher training, and who is jointly assigned by such institution
				  and the superintendent of the special school to perform practice teaching under
				  the direction of a regularly employed and certified teacher.
"Teacher"
means a duly certified or licensed
				  person who is employed as a member of the contracted instructional staff.
				  Teachers include classroom instructors, counselors, librarians or any other
				  persons serving in any instructional capacity. For purposes of complying with
				  state and federal laws which apportion money on the basis of teaching units or
				  the number of teachers employed or qualified, all persons holding proper
				  certificates or licenses and connected in any capacity with the instruction of
				  students shall be designated as "teachers."
Added at 13 Ok Reg 165,
				  eff 10-12-95 (emergency); Added at 13 Ok Reg 3087, eff 8-1-96; Amended at 19 Ok
				  Reg 1200, eff 7-1-02