2006 Ohio Revised Code - 3319.23. Standards and courses of study for preparation and licensing of teachers; inspection and approval of institutions.

§ 3319.23. Standards and courses of study for preparation and licensing of teachers; inspection and approval of institutions.
 

(A)  The state board of education shall establish standards and courses of study for the preparation of teachers, shall provide for the inspection of institutions desiring to prepare teachers, shall approve such institutions as maintain satisfactory training procedures, and shall properly license the graduates of such approved courses and institutions. If the standards adopted by the state board under this section require an institution also to satisfy the standards of an independent accreditation organization, the state board shall permit each institution to satisfy the standards of either the national council for accreditation of teacher education or the teacher education accreditation council. 

(B)  The standards and courses of study adopted by the state board under division (A) of this section shall require each institution, as a condition for approval to prepare teachers, to make changes in the curricula of the institution's teacher preparation program, as the state board determines is necessary, so that: 

(1) By July 1, 2006, the curricula, including instruction in methods, best practices, and materials, are aligned with the academic content standards adopted under section 3301.079 [3301.07.9] of the Revised Code and the minimum standards for elementary and secondary schools prescribed by the state board pursuant to division (D) of section 3301.07 of the Revised Code; 

(2) Within one hundred eighty days after the department of education implements the value-added progress dimension, as required under section 3302.021 [3302.02.1] of the Revised Code, the curricula, including methods of interpreting data, are aligned with that value-added progress dimension. 

Division (C)(2) of this section does not apply to any standards, rules, or regulations adopted, amended, or rescinded in order to comply with division (B) of this section. 

Each institution shall allocate money from its existing appropriations to pay the cost of making the changes required by the state board under division (B) of this section. 

(C) (1)  The standards and courses of study for the preparation of teachers together with the standards, rules, and regulations set for each kind of license and for the renewal and conversion thereof shall be adopted and published by the board in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. 

(2) Notwithstanding division (D) of section 119.03 and division (A)(1) of section 119.04 of the Revised Code, any standards, courses of study, rules, and regulations, or any amendment or rescission of such standards, courses of study, rules, and regulations, adopted by the board under this section that necessitate institutions offering teacher preparation programs approved by the board to revise the curriculum of those programs shall not be effective for at least one year from the first day of January next succeeding the publication of the said change. 
 

HISTORY: GC § 4857-2; 120 v 475(588); Bureau of Code Revision, 10-1-53; 126 v 655(676) (Eff 1-3-56); 146 v S 230. Eff 10-29-96; 150 v S 2, § 1, eff. 6-9-04; 151 v H 107, § 1, eff. 5-1-06.
 

The provisions of § 5 of S.B. 2 (150 v  - ) read as follows: 

SECTION 5. The Department of Education and the Ohio Board of Regents shall develop a proposal for a pilot program between a school district and a college or university that is approved to offer teacher preparation programs pursuant to section 3319.23 of the Revised Code. The pilot program shall encourage the college or university's faculty to spend more time in the school district's buildings and classrooms and engage in other clinical experiences. In addition, participation in the pilot program shall require a college or university to provide incentives for faculty to share what they have learned from the pilot program with their colleagues through publications and other learning experiences. 

The Department of Education shall study, using an appropriate research method, the effectiveness of the pilot program, if implemented, and shall report its findings to the General Assembly within one year after the program is implemented. 

 

Effect of Amendments

151 v H 107, effective May 1, 2006, inserted (B) and redesignated the former provisions as (A) and (C). 

S.B. 2, Acts 2004, effective June 9, 2004, added the last sentence to the first paragraph; and substituted "Notwithstanding division (D) ... programs shall not be effective" for "and no change therein shall be effective" in the last paragraph.