Highly Qualified Teacher Requirements

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Highly Qualified Teacher Requirements ELL

• October 2007
• Title III Directors Meeting

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Presenter

• Bev Pratt
• Education Specialist
• Oregon Department of Education
• bev.pratt_at_state.or.us
• [phone]

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How has NCLB changed teacher qualification
requirements?

• Required all states who receive Title I-A funds
  to have all core academic teachers highly
  qualified by the end of 2005-06
• Extension given with HQT Plan approved by US
  Department

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What is the definition of a Highly Qualified
Teacher?

• Obtain full state licensure
• Holds a minimum of a bachelors degree
• Demonstrate subject matter competency

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Licenses Considered Full State Certification

• Basic and Standard Licenses
• Initial and Continuing Licenses
• Approved NCLB Alternative Route Teaching License

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Demonstrating Subject Matter Competency

• Hold an undergraduate or graduate degree in the
  core academic subject matter area or
• Complete coursework equivalent to an
  undergraduate major in the core academic area
  (minimum 34 quarter hours) or
• Passing a rigorous state exam in the core
  academic subject matter area or

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Demonstrating Subject Matter Competency
(continued)

• Highly Objective Uniform State Standards of
  Evaluation (HOUSSE)

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Core Academic Subjects

• English (Language Arts)
• Mathematics
• Science
• Foreign Language
• The Arts
• Geography
• History
• Civics and Government
• Economics

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What about ESOL Teachers?

• What are they teaching?
• English Language Development
• Core Academic Subjects

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When is an ESOL endorsement required?

• If the teacher is teaching English Language
  Development

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Do HQT Requirements Apply?

• Teacher is providing instruction in core academic
  subjects
• Teacher is teaching a self contained elementary
  classroom with ELL students
• Teachers who teach ELL students funded by Title
  III must be fluent in English and any other
  language in which they provide instruction

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NCLB Accountability and LEA
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Who needs to be HQ?

• All teachers of core academic subjects
• Long term substitutes of 4 or more weeks

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LEA Responsibilities

• District HQT Plan
• Individual Teacher Plans for non HQT

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What if I cannot find a HQT?

• Procedure to follow
• Contact ODE
• Complete Individual Teacher Plan
• Send Copy of Plan to ODE

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Accountability

• HQT Plans
• The SEA enters into an agreement on the use of
  funds with any LEA that has not made progress
  toward meeting its annual measurable objectives
  (AMO) in meeting the highly qualified teacher
  challenge for three consecutive years and has
  also failed to make AYP for three years. 2141 (c)

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Reauthorization

• Things to Watch
• Highly Qualified and Effective Teachers
• HQT and Student Achievement Data
• Elimination of HOUSSETimes Up!
• Equity Plans and Teacher Level Data
• More Linkage to AYP ResultsPossible Offset to
  HQT
• More Flexibility for Rural Districts

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License Inquiry

• http//www.tspc.state.or.us/lookup_query.asp?op9
  id0

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Questions