Bill Text: CA AB1756 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Teacher credentialing: integrated programs of professional preparation.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2016-11-30 - From Senate committee without further action. [AB1756 Detail]

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1756	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Bonilla

                        FEBRUARY 2, 2016

   An act to amend Section 44259.1 of the Education Code, relating to
teacher credentialing.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1756, as introduced, Bonilla. Teacher credentialing: integrated
programs of professional preparation: field experiences: student
teaching.
   Existing law establishes minimum requirements for the issuance of
a preliminary multiple or single subject teaching credential by the
Commission on Teacher Credentialing. Among other requirements,
existing law requires satisfactory completion of a program of
professional preparation accredited by the Committee on
Accreditation, but specifies that the program shall not include more
than two years of full-time study, except for certain programs,
including for integrated programs of subject matter and professional
preparation. Existing law requires an integrated program of
professional preparation to enable candidates for teaching
credentials to engage in professional preparation, concurrently with
subject matter preparation, while completing baccalaureate degrees at
regionally accredited postsecondary institutions, and to provide
opportunities for candidates to complete intensive field experiences
in public elementary and secondary schools early in the undergraduate
sequence.
   This bill would require those intensive field experiences to
include student teaching.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 44259.1 of the Education Code is amended to
read:
   44259.1.  (a) (1) An integrated program of professional
preparation shall enable candidates for teaching credentials to
engage in professional preparation, concurrently with subject matter
preparation, while completing baccalaureate degrees at regionally
accredited postsecondary  educational  institutions. An
integrated program shall provide opportunities for candidates to
complete intensive field  experiences  
experiences, including student teaching,  in public elementary
and secondary schools early in the undergraduate sequence. The
development and implementation of an integrated program shall be
based on intensive collaboration among subject matter departments and
education units within postsecondary educational 
institutions and local public elementary and secondary school
districts.
   (2) The commission shall encourage postsecondary  educational
 institutions to offer integrated programs of professional
preparation that follow the guidelines developed pursuant to this
section. In approving integrated programs, the commission shall not
compromise or reduce its standards of subject matter preparation
pursuant to Article 6 (commencing with Section 44310) or its
standards of professional preparation pursuant to paragraph (3) of
subdivision (b) of Section 44259.
   (b) (1) Commencing with the 2005-06 school year, an integrated
program offered by the California State University shall be designed
to concurrently lead to a preliminary multiple subject or single
subject teaching credential, and a baccalaureate degree.
Recommendation for each shall be contingent upon satisfactory
completion of the requirements for each.
   (2) By July 1, 2004, the Chancellor of the California State
University, in consultation with California State University faculty
members, shall develop a framework defining appropriate balance for
an integrated program of general education, subject matter
preparation, and professional education courses, for both lower
division and upper division students, including an appropriate range
of units to be taken in professional education courses. In developing
the framework, the Chancellor of the California State University and
California State University faculty members shall consult with the
Academic Senate for the California Community Colleges on matters
related to the effective and efficient use of, and appropriate role
for, lower division coursework in an integrated program.
   (c) (1) By January 1, 2005, the Chancellor of the California State
University and the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges
shall collaboratively ensure that both of the following occur:
   (A) Lower division coursework completed by a community college
student transferring to a California State University integrated
program is articulated with the corresponding coursework of the
California State University.
   (B) The articulated community college lower division coursework is
accepted as the equivalent to the coursework offered to students who
enter that integrated program as freshman students.
   (2) Commencing with the 2005-06 school year, each campus of the
California State University shall invite the community colleges in
its region that send significant numbers of transfer students to that
campus to enter into articulation agreements. These articulation
agreements shall be based on a fully transferable education
curriculum that is developed pursuant to the framework developed
under paragraph (2) of subdivision (b). Approval of one or more of
the articulation agreements will enable the coursework of a community
college student to be accepted as the equivalent to the coursework
offered to students who enter that integrated program as freshman
students.
   (d) A postbaccalaureate program of professional preparation shall
enable candidates for teaching credentials to commence and complete
professional preparation after they have completed baccalaureate
degrees at regionally accredited institutions. The development and
implementation of a postbaccalaureate program of professional
preparation shall be based on intensive collaboration among the
postsecondary  educational  institution and local public
elementary and secondary school districts.