Texas Administrative Code › Title 19 - EDUCATION › Part 7 - STATE BOARD FOR EDUCATOR CERTIFICATION › Chapter 231 - REQUIREMENTS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL PERSONNEL ASSIGNMENTS › Subchapter C - GRADES 6-8 ASSIGNMENTS › Section 231.51 - Reading Improvement (One Year or More Below Grade Level), Grades 6-8

Current through Reg. 49, No. 28; July 12, 2024
An assignment in a departmentalized classroom for Reading
					 Improvement (one year or more below grade level), Grades 6-8, for a holder of a
					 valid elementary, secondary, or all-level certificate is allowed with one of
					 the following certificates.
(1)
				  Bilingual Generalist: Early Childhood-Grade 6 (Grade 6 only).
(2) Bilingual Generalist: Grades
				  4-8.
(3) Core Subjects: Early
				  Childhood-Grade 6 (Grade 6 only).
(4) Core Subjects with Science of Teaching
				  Reading: Early Childhood-Grade 6 (Grade 6 only).
(5) Core Subjects: Grades 4-8.
(6) Core Subjects with Science of Teaching
				  Reading: Grades 4-8.
(7) Elementary
				  English (Grades 1-8). This assignment requires verifiable preparation in
				  teaching of reading such as in-service, seminar, or college course in reading.
				  Initial assignments beginning with the 1990-1991 school year require nine
				  semester credit hours of upper-division coursework in reading with at least one
				  course in diagnostic reading techniques.
(8) Elementary Reading (Grades
				  1-8).
(9) Elementary teacher
				  certificate plus 18 semester credit hours in English and nine semester credit
				  hours of upper-division coursework in reading with at least one course in
				  diagnostic reading techniques.
(10)
				  English as a Second Language Generalist: Early Childhood-Grade 6 (Grade 6
				  only).
(11) English as a Second
				  Language Generalist: Grades 4-8.
(12) English Language Arts and Reading:
				  Grades 4-8.
(13) English Language
				  Arts and Reading with Science of Teaching Reading: Grades 4-8.
(14) English Language Arts and Reading:
				  Grades 7-12 (Grades 7 and 8 only).
(15) English Language Arts and Reading:
				  Grades 8-12 (Grade 8 only).
(16)
				  English Language Arts and Reading/Social Studies: Grades 4-8.
(17) English Language Arts and Reading/Social
				  Studies with Science of Teaching Reading: Grades 4-8.
(18) Generalist: Early Childhood-Grade 6
				  (Grade 6 only).
(19) Generalist:
				  Grades 4-8.
(20) Grades 6-12 or
				  Grades 6-8--English. This assignment requires verifiable preparation in the
				  teaching of reading such as in-service, seminar, or college course in reading.
				  Initial assignments beginning with the 1990-1991 school year require nine
				  semester credit hours of upper-division coursework in reading with at least one
				  course in diagnostic reading techniques.
(21) Grades 6-12 or Grades 6-8--English
				  Language Arts, Composite. This assignment includes at least six semester credit
				  hours of reading. Initial assignments beginning with the 2003-2004 school year
				  require nine semester credit hours of upper-division coursework in reading with
				  at least one course in diagnostic reading techniques.
(22) Grades 6-12 or Grades
				  6-8--Reading.
(23) Junior High
				  School or High School--English. This assignment requires verifiable preparation
				  in the teaching of reading such as in-service, seminar, or college course in
				  reading. Initial assignments beginning with the 1990-1991 school year require
				  nine semester credit hours of upper-division coursework in reading with at
				  least one course in diagnostic reading techniques.
(24) Junior High School or High
				  School--English Language Arts, Composite. This assignment includes at least six
				  semester credit hours of reading. Initial assignments beginning with the
				  2003-2004 school year require nine semester credit hours of upper-division
				  coursework in reading with at least one course in diagnostic reading
				  techniques.
(25) Junior High School
				  or High School--Reading.
(26)
				  Legacy Master Reading Teacher (Early Childhood-Grade 12).
(27) Reading Specialist.
(28) Reading Specialist (Early
				  Childhood-Grade 12).
(29) Secondary
				  English (Grades 6-12). This assignment requires verifiable preparation in the
				  teaching of reading such as in-service, seminar, or college course in reading.
				  Initial assignments beginning with the 1990-1991 school year require nine
				  semester credit hours of upper-division coursework in reading with at least one
				  course in diagnostic reading techniques.
(30) Secondary English Language Arts,
				  Composite (Grades 6-12). This assignment includes at least six semester credit
				  hours of reading. Initial assignments beginning with the 2003-2004 school year
				  require nine semester credit hours of upper-division coursework in reading with
				  at least one course in diagnostic reading techniques.
(31) Secondary Reading (Grades
				  6-12).
(32) Teacher certificate
				  plus 9 semester credit hours of upper-division coursework in reading with at
				  least one course in diagnostic reading techniques.