North Dakota Administrative Code › Title 67.1 - Education Standards and Practices Board › Article 67.1-02 - Program Approval and Educator Licensure › Chapter 67.1-02-04 - Alternative Access Licenses › Section 67.1-02-04-07 - Clinical practice option

Current through Supplement No. 393, July, 2024
Applicants who have entered the profession of teaching
				  through alternative access licensure under section
				  67.1-02-04-01,
				  elementary, middle, or secondary endorsement under
				  67.1-02-03, or trade,
				  industry, technical, and health occupations interim licensure under section
				  67.1-02-04-06
				  and are seeking to complete the requirements for regular licensure under
				  section
				  67.1-02-02-02
				  may meet the student teaching requirement through a supervised clinical
				  practice option meeting the following conditions:
1. The applicant requesting the clinical
				practice option must hold a valid regular license, alternative access license
				or trade, industry, technical, and health occupations interim license and be
				employed under contract by an approved school during the clinical practice. The
				clinical practice option is not intended to be used by applicants who are not
				under contract and would not need release time from those contracts to complete
				a regular student teaching experience.
2. The clinical practice option must be
				approved by the board before it begins as part of the applicant's program of
				study toward regular licensure and must be conducted under the supervision of a
				state-approved college of teacher education. Criteria and evaluations for
				successful completion of the clinical experience must parallel and meet or
				exceed those the college of teacher education applies to student teaching
				experiences and the clinical practice must be at the appropriate grade levels
				for the licensure sought.
3. The
				school employing the applicant and the applicant must submit letters to the
				board requesting the clinical practice option and verifying their support of
				the agreement.
4. The clinical
				practice option must require a minimum of ten weeks of close supervision (five
				weeks of close supervision if the applicant has already been prepared as a
				teacher), which includes an equitable combination of daily meetings with or
				observations of the applicant at the beginning of the experience, by an onsite
				teacher meeting the qualifications for cooperating teachers under section
				67.1-02-01-02
				and by the school building principal or other supervisor responsible for
				evaluations of teachers under North Dakota Century Code sections 15.1-15-01 and
				15.1-15-04 and must include onsite visits by college supervisors which meet or
				exceed the requirements for student teacher supervision under section
				67.1-02-01-03.
5. The clinical practice option includes
				mentoring of the applicant for at least one school year (one semester if the
				applicant has already been prepared as a teacher) by the onsite cooperating
				teacher and may also include mentoring by an offsite content area specialist.
				The mentoring occurs outside of the applicant's regular teaching assignment
				time and meets or exceeds the contact that would occur in a ten-week, full-time
				student teaching experience.
6.
				Upon completion of the clinical practice option, documentation of evaluations
				and transcripts verifying successful completion of the clinical practice will
				be provided through the college of teacher education to the board.
7. Applicants holding valid alternative
				access licensure under section
				67.1-02-04-01
				or trade, industry, technical, and health occupations interim licensure under
				section
				67.1-02-04-06
				who have successfully completed all of the other requirements for regular
				two-year initial licensure under section
				67.1-02-02-02,
				except for ten weeks of supervised student teaching, may use the successful
				clinical practice meeting the conditions of this section to fulfill the student
				teaching requirement.
General Authority:
NDCC 15.1-13-09,
					 15.1-13-10
Law Implemented:
NDCC
					 15.1-13-10