ok-1338: Office of Educational Quality and Accountability — Educational Quality

Summary

The proposed revisions to the rules: Revise and add to current language of OAC 218:10-5-1 to more accurately indicate that CAEP accreditation guidelines should only be followed when applicable, clarify some of the data that must be submitted, and certain records that must be kept, by Educator Preparation Programs seeking accreditation, clarify training for CEQA/OEQA accreditation review teams, and indicate requirement to conduct site visits virtually when possible; Add to current language of OAC 218:10-5-3 to give teacher candidates within an Educator Preparation Program to achieve clinical experience through an additional, but equivalent, alternative to the current student teaching pathway; Revise and add to current language of OAC 218:10-7-1 and OAC 218:10-7-3 to refer to testing vendors generally rather than specifically by name, and to clarify competency examination components; Remove old language in OAC 218:10-9-1 that inadvertently broadens the Education Leadership Oklahoma Act, 70 O.S. § 3-204 et, seq. to provide state funding of up to two retakes of components of the National Board Certification process to teachers seeking National Board Certification, and to include teachers who are maintaining, rather than seeking, National Board Certification as being eligible to participate in the ELO Program; and Revise and add to current language of OAC 218:10-9-1 that clarifies that the ELO Program application and selection process.

The agency’s own summary, as published.