Kentucky
Kentucky EPSB approves two Option 9 partnerships for expedited route to certification
The Kentucky Schooling Skilled Requirements Board (EPSB) accepted two Possibility 9 applications at its Oct. 10 assembly.
Pursuant to 16 KAR 9:110E, Possibility 9 is a brand new different path to certification created in the course of the 2022 common session of the Kentucky Basic Meeting that enables an individual to finish a bachelor’s diploma and preliminary trainer certification in a three-year interval whereas working in a non-teaching place in a college district. The route requires a district or group of districts to associate with a university or college to develop a program and obtain EPSB approval.
Each Whitley County and Lincoln County Faculties have individually partnered with the College of the Cumberlands to develop an Possibility 9 program. Beneath this system, the districts should:
- Embody a paid residency or paraprofessional part that employs the particular person throughout the collaborating district to achieve work expertise;
- Use skilled academics employed by the district to supply teaching and mentorship;
- Define parameters of acceptance; and
- Be designed to satisfy the wants of the collaborating district and will embody an emphasis on creating a trainer pipeline for the district’s college students, bettering the variety of underrepresented populations among the many district’s workforce, or specializing in growing the variety of academics with certification areas which are in excessive demand.
Moreover, the partnering district will help the candidate in assembly the sphere expertise hours in the course of the first two years of employment. Within the third yr of employment, the candidate is required to be positioned in a setting that’s in keeping with the certification sought.
Each Lincoln County and Whitley County’s program proposals are comparable in nature apart from their parameters for acceptance. In Lincoln County, solely tutorial assistants who present promise as classroom academics and are chosen by the district might apply. In Whitley County, solely those that full the Educating and Studying pathway at Whitley County Excessive Faculty with a suggestion from the trainer and the principal might apply.
Although this route requires a candidate to be employed in a labeled place whereas finishing coursework, it doesn’t permit the candidate to function a trainer whereas enrolled within the certification route. The Possibility 9 different route solely supplies for preliminary certification as soon as the candidate completes their bachelor’s diploma and certification assessments.
In accordance with statute, preliminary program approval by EPSB solely lasts for 3 years. After that point, this system suppliers might apply for persevering with approval and supply proof of program high quality.
All different routes to certification applications will need to have prior approval from EPSB earlier than they will supply that route. There are at present 9 different routes to certification accepted by EPSB.
In different enterprise, the board:
- Discovered concerning the Praxis Efficiency Evaluation for Lecturers (PPAT) from Jason E. Dietrich, consumer relations director for Instructional Testing Companies. The PPAT evaluation consists of 4 duties that happen in the course of the trainer candidate’s scientific expertise and concentrate on assessing a scholar trainer’s instruction and the decision-making course of;
- Accepted prompt substitute language for 16 KAR 9:100, relating to the Possibility 7 different path to certification, and 16 KAR 9:110, relating to Possibility 9 expedited path to certification;
- Accepted 4 choice 1 different path to certification requests. Beneath choice 1, EPSB might approve candidates with distinctive, non-teaching work expertise in an instructional content material space they at present would not have a certification in;
- Accepted waiver requests for eligibility necessities;
- Moved into closed periods to conduct character and health evaluations; and
- Accepted consent agenda gadgets:
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- Kentucky Christian College’s preliminary undergraduate program for well being schooling and bodily education schemes;
- Georgetown Faculty’s Proficiency Plan; and
- Emergency Noncertified Personnel Program.
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