North Dakota Administrative Code › Title 67.1 - Education Standards and Practices Board › Article 67.1-02 - Program Approval and Educator Licensure › Chapter 67.1-02-03 - Re-Education › Section 67.1-02-03-09 - Early childhood education endorsement (50037)

Current through Supplement No. 393, July, 2024
The birth to grade three early childhood education
				  endorsement may be completed by an applicant with a nonteaching degree in a
				  related field or holding a valid North Dakota educator's professional license.
				  The applicant must complete all requirements for initial licensure in section
				  67.1-02-02-02, submit a program
				  of study from a state-approved teacher education program including thirty-two
				  semester hours in early childhood education, twenty-two semester hours of
				  professional education, and field experience or student teaching of ten weeks
				  in grades prekindergarten through grade three. If the applicant has completed a
				  previous student teaching experience of ten weeks, the re-education early
				  childhood student teaching experience may be five weeks.
The early childhood education coursework must include six
				  semester hours in child development and learning; three semester hours in
				  building family and community relations; three semester hours in observation
				  and assessment; eighteen semester hours in methods of mathematics, science,
				  social studies, reading, language arts, early language literacy, and play;
				  three semester hours in administration and leadership; twenty-two semester
				  hours in education foundations, educational psychology, teaching and learning
				  theory, educational diagnosis and assessment, inclusive education, educational
				  technology, classroom and behavioral management, and multicultural or native
				  American studies specific to teaching; and field experience must include three
				  supervised field experiences and two student teaching experiences for a minimum
				  of ten weeks (five weeks student teaching for applicants with an existing
				  teaching license). One student teaching experience must be in an accredited
				  prekindergarten or kindergarten setting and the other in grade one, two, or
				  three, and include the opportunity to work with children with special
				  needs.
Effective July 1, 2006, all early childhood endorsement
				  applicants will need to meet or exceed the cut scores as determined by the
				  board for the early childhood education test and the pedagogical
				  assessment.
Re-education of a licensed teacher for early childhood
				  schoolteaching may also be accomplished by holding a North Dakota professional
				  educator's regular license and completion of the pedagogical test birth through
				  grade three, and early childhood content test meeting or exceeding the minimum
				  scores determined by the education standards and practices board in the content
				  area to be taught.
The applicant must apply online at
www.nd.gov/espb
using the online
				  application ND Teach, submit transcripts, and the review fee of eighty
				  dollars.
General Authority:
NDCC 15.1-13-09,
					 15.1-13-10
Law Implemented:
NDCC 15.1-13-10, 15.1-13-11,
					 15.1-13-14