Bill Text: MI HB5603 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Education; teachers; requirements for teaching certificate; revise. Amends sec. 1531 of 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1531).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-12-06 - Referred To Committee On Education [HB5603 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2017-HB5603-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL No. 5603
February 20, 2018, Introduced by Reps. Kelly, Garcia, Crawford, Lilly, Hornberger, Griffin and Zemke and referred to the Committee on Education Reform.
A bill to amend 1976 PA 451, entitled
"The revised school code,"
by amending section 1531 (MCL 380.1531), as amended by 2015 PA 159.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 1531. (1) Except as provided in this act, the
superintendent of public instruction shall determine the
requirements for and issue all licenses and certificates for
teachers, including preprimary teachers, and the requirements for
an endorsement of teachers as qualified counselors and an
endorsement of teachers for teaching a foreign language in an
elementary grade in the public schools of the state.
(2) Except as otherwise provided in this act, the
superintendent of public instruction shall only issue a teaching
certificate
to a person an individual who has passed appropriate
examinations as follows:
(a) For a secondary level teaching certificate, has passed
both the basic skills examination and the appropriate available
subject area examination for each subject area in which he or she
applies to be certified.
(b) For an elementary level teaching certificate, has passed
the basic skills examination and, if it is available, the
elementary certification examination, and has passed the
appropriate available subject area examination for each subject
area, if any, in which he or she applies to be certified.
(3) Except as otherwise provided in this act, the
superintendent of public instruction shall issue a Michigan
teaching
certificate to a person an
individual holding a
certificate from another state or a teaching degree from an out-of-
state teacher preparation institution who applies for a Michigan
teaching
certificate only if the person individual
passes
appropriate examinations as follows:
(a) For a secondary level teaching certificate, pass both the
basic skills examination and the appropriate available subject area
examination for each subject area in which he or she applies to be
certified. The superintendent of public instruction may accept
passage of an equivalent examination approved by the superintendent
of public instruction to meet 1 or both of these requirements.
(b) For an elementary level teaching certificate, pass the
basic skills examination and, if it is available, the elementary
certification examination, and pass the appropriate available
subject area examination for each subject area, if any, in which he
or she applies to be certified. The superintendent of public
instruction may accept passage of an equivalent examination
approved by the superintendent of public instruction to meet 1 or
more of these requirements.
(4)
Except as otherwise provided in this act, the
superintendent
of public instruction shall only issue a teaching
certificate
to a person who has met the elementary or secondary, as
applicable,
reading credit requirements established under
superintendent
of public instruction rule. If a person holds a
teaching
certificate, then beginning July 1, 2009, notwithstanding
any
rule to the contrary, the superintendent of public instruction
shall
not advance the person's certification to professional
certification
unless the person has successfully completed at least
a
3-credit course of study with appropriate field experiences in
the
diagnosis and remediation of reading disabilities and
differentiated
instruction. To meet this requirement, the course of
study
should include the following elements, as determined by the
department
to be appropriate for the person's certification level
and
endorsements: interest inventories, English language learning
screening,
visual and auditory discrimination tools, language
expression
and processing screening, phonemics, phonics,
vocabulary,
fluency, comprehension, spelling and writing assessment
tools,
and instructional strategies. A person may complete the
course
of study either as part of his or her teacher preparation
program
or during the first 6 years of his or her employment in
classroom
teaching.beginning July 1,
2018, the superintendent of
public instruction shall only issue an elementary level provisional
teaching certificate to an individual who has earned at least 6
credits in the teaching of reading that include instruction in at
least all of the following:
(a) The importance of utilizing rigorous text and higher-level
questioning skills throughout the literacy block.
(b) How to develop a pupil's academic and content vocabulary.
(c) Research on developmental readiness, including at least
research from the Gesell Institute.
(d) How to teach and pronounce the 44 phonemes found in the
English code.
(e) How to recognize the differences between synthetic and
analytical phonics.
(f) The importance of both phonological and phonemic awareness
and the 6 core skills of phonemic awareness.
(g) How to teach encoding and decoding interchangeably.
(h) How to utilize developmentally appropriate handwriting
skills.
(i) How to recognize signs of visual and auditory disabilities
or barriers in pupils.
(j) How to assess English language levels.
(k) How to incorporate English language learner and English-
as-a-second-language strategies into literacy instruction.
(l) How to determine reading levels through the use of
diagnostic assessments.
(m) How to administer, analyze, and make instructional
decisions based on 3 points of data.
(n) How to determine and recognize the learning styles of each
pupil.
(o) How to identify easy grade level, instructional grade
level, and frustration grade level reading material.
(p) How to match each pupil with materials on his or her
reading level and provide rigorous independent level and
instructional level materials.
(q) How to use a keywords to reading approach developed by
Jeannette Veatch or Sylvia Ashton-Warner.
(r) The importance of reading instruction that is explicitly
and systematically taught in conjunction with high-level
application, including teaching a pupil how to write and spell his
or her own name.
(5) Except as otherwise provided in this act, the
superintendent of public instruction shall only issue a secondary
level provisional teaching certificate to an individual who has met
the reading credit requirements established under superintendent of
public instruction rule.
(6) Beginning July 1, 2009, notwithstanding any rule to the
contrary, the superintendent of public instruction shall not
advance an individual's certification to a professional
certification unless that individual has successfully completed a
3-credit course of study, with appropriate field experiences, in
the diagnosis and remediation of reading disabilities and
differentiated instruction, either as part of his or her teacher
preparation program or during the first 6 years of his or her
employment in classroom teaching. The course of study shall include
the following elements as determined by the department to be
appropriate for the individual's certification level and
endorsements:
(a) Interest inventories.
(b) English language learning screening.
(c) Visual and auditory discrimination tools.
(d) Language expression and processing screening.
(e) Phonemics, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, comprehension,
spelling, and writing assessment tools.
(f) Instructional strategies.
(7)
(5) Not later than January 11, 2002, the superintendent
of
public instruction, in cooperation with appropriate curriculum
specialists and teacher educators, shall revise existing reading
standards to recognize reading disorders and to enable teachers to
make referrals for instruction and support for pupils with reading
disorders.
(8) (6)
Subject to subsection (8), (10), if
a person an
individual holding a teaching certificate from another state
applies to the superintendent of public instruction for a Michigan
teaching certificate and meets the requirements of this subsection,
the
superintendent of public instruction shall issue to the person
individual a Michigan professional education teaching certificate
and
applicable endorsements comparable to those the person
individual
holds in the other state, without
requiring the person
individual to pass a basic skills examination or the applicable
subject area examination otherwise required under subsection (2) or
(3). To be eligible to receive a Michigan professional education
teaching
certificate under this subsection, a person an individual
shall provide evidence satisfactory to the department that he or
she meets all of the following requirements:
(a) Has taught successfully for at least 3 years in a position
for
which the person's individual's
teaching certification from the
other state was valid.
(b) Has earned, after his or her initial certification in
another state, at least 18 semester credit hours in a planned
course of study at an institution of higher education approved by
the superintendent of public instruction or has earned, at any
time, a master's or doctoral degree approved by the superintendent
of public instruction.
(c) Has met the elementary or secondary, as applicable,
reading credit requirement established under superintendent of
public instruction rule.
(9) (7)
A person An individual who receives a teaching
certificate
and endorsement or endorsements under subsection (6)
(8) is eligible to receive 1 or more additional endorsements
comparable
to endorsements the person individual
holds in another
state
only if the person individual
passes the appropriate subject
area examinations required under subsection (2) or (3).
(10) (8)
The superintendent of public
instruction shall deny a
Michigan
teaching certificate to a person an individual described
in
subsection (6) (8) for fraud, material misrepresentation, or
concealment
in the person's individual's
application for a
certificate
or for a conviction for which a person's an
individual's teaching certificate may be revoked under section
1535a.
(11) (9)
The department, based upon criteria
recommended
pursuant
to under subsection (11), (13), shall
provide to approved
teacher education institutions guidelines and criteria approved by
the superintendent of public instruction for use in the development
or selection of a basic skills examination and approved guidelines
and criteria for use in the development or selection of subject
area examinations.
(12) (10)
For the purposes of this section,
the superintendent
of
public instruction, based upon criteria recommended pursuant to
under
subsection (11), (13), shall
develop, select, or develop and
select 1 or more basic skills examinations and subject area
examinations. In addition, the superintendent of public
instruction,
based upon criteria recommended pursuant to under
subsection
(11), (13), shall approve an elementary certification
examination that includes an assessment of pedagogical skills,
including an assessment of the applicant's ability to effectively
deliver instruction, and a reading subject area examination. The
reading subject area examination shall assess whether an applicant
has sufficient knowledge of the skills listed in subsection (4). If
the department develops for use under this subsection an
examination that had previously been contracted for using a
competitive bid process, then the department shall not expend on
the development of that examination an amount that exceeds the
amount that the department expended on procurement of the most
recent competitively-bid version of that examination.
(13) (11)
The superintendent of public
instruction shall
appoint an 11-member teacher examination advisory committee
comprised of representatives of approved teacher education
institutions and Michigan education organizations and associations.
Not more than 1/2 of the members comprising this committee shall be
certified teachers. This committee shall recommend criteria to be
used by the superintendent of public instruction in the
development, selection, or development and selection of 1 or more
basic skills examinations, and criteria to be used by the
superintendent of public instruction in the development, selection,
or development and selection of subject area examinations. In
addition, the committee shall recommend guidelines for the use and
administration of those examinations. The basic skills examinations
referred to in this subsection may be developed by the
superintendent of public instruction or selected by the
superintendent of public instruction from commercially or
university developed examinations. In addition, an approved teacher
education
institution, pursuant to under
guidelines and criteria
described
in subsection (9), (11), may develop an examination at
its own expense for approval by the superintendent of public
instruction. An approved teacher education institution that
develops its own examination is liable for any litigation that
results from the use of its examination.
(14) (12)
The superintendent of public
instruction shall
appoint a 7-member standing technical advisory council comprised of
persons
individuals who are experts in measurement and assessment.
This council shall advise the superintendent of public instruction
and the teacher examination committee on the validity, reliability,
and other technical standards of the examinations that will be used
or are being used and of the administration and use of those
examinations.
(15) (13)
Not later than November 30 of each
year, the
superintendent of public instruction shall submit in writing a
report on the development or selection and use of the basic skills
examination, the elementary certification examination, and the
subject area examinations to the house and senate education
committees. The report shall also contain a financial statement
regarding revenue received from the assessment of fees levied
pursuant
to under subsection (15) (17) and
the amount of and any
purposes for which that revenue was expended.
(16) (14)
The basic skills examination, the
elementary
certification examination, and the subject area examinations
required by this section may be taken at different times during an
approved teacher preparation program, but the basic skills
examination
must be passed before a person an
individual is
enrolled for student teaching and the elementary certification
examination and the subject area examinations, as applicable, must
be
passed before a person an
individual is recommended for
certification.
(17) (15)
The department, or if approved by
the superintendent
of public instruction, a private testing service, may assess fees
for taking the basic skills examination, elementary certification
examination, and the subject area examinations. The fees, which
shall be set by the superintendent of public instruction, shall not
exceed the actual cost of the examination and of administering the
examination. Fees received by the department shall be expended
solely for administrative expenses that it incurs in implementing
this section. If the superintendent of public instruction increases
a fee charged for an examination under this subsection, at least 1
year before implementing the fee increase, the department shall
notify each approved teacher education institution of the amount of
the fee increase. An approved teacher education institution shall
notify each of its affected students of the timing and amount of
such a fee increase.
(18) (16)
If a person an individual holding a teaching
certificate from another state applies for a Michigan teaching
certificate and meets all requirements for the Michigan teaching
certificate except passage of the appropriate examinations under
subsection (3), the superintendent of public instruction shall
issue a nonrenewable temporary teaching certificate, good for 1
year,
to the person. individual.
The superintendent of public
instruction shall not issue a Michigan teaching certificate to the
person
individual after expiration of the temporary teaching
certificate
unless the person individual
passes appropriate
examinations as described in subsection (3).
(19) (17)
As used in this section:
(a) "Basic skills examination" means an examination developed
or selected by the superintendent of public instruction or
developed
pursuant to under subsection (11) (13) by
an approved
teacher education institution for the purpose of demonstrating the
applicant's knowledge and understanding of basic language and
mathematical skills and other skills necessary for the certificate
sought, and for determining whether or not an applicant is eligible
for a provisional Michigan teaching certificate.
(b) "Elementary certification examination" means a
comprehensive examination for elementary certification that has
been developed or selected by the superintendent of public
instruction for demonstrating the applicant's knowledge and
understanding of the core subjects normally taught in elementary
classrooms, for demonstrating the applicant's knowledge of
pedagogical skills, including assessing the applicant's ability to
effectively deliver instruction, and for determining whether or not
an applicant is eligible for an elementary level teaching
certificate.
(c) "Subject area examination" means an examination related to
a specific area of certification, which examination has been
developed or selected by the superintendent of public instruction
for the purpose of demonstrating the applicant's knowledge and
understanding of the subject matter and determining whether or not
an applicant is eligible for a Michigan teaching certificate.
(20) (18)
The superintendent of public
instruction shall
promulgate rules for the implementation of this section.
(21) (19)
Notwithstanding any rule to the
contrary, the
superintendent of public instruction shall continue to issue state
elementary
or secondary continuing education certificates pursuant
to
under R 390.1132(1) of the Michigan administrative code
Administrative
Code to persons individuals who completed the
requirements of that rule by December 31, 1992 and who apply for
that certificate not later than March 15, 1994. If the
superintendent of public instruction has issued a state elementary
or
secondary professional education certificate to a person an
individual described in this section, the superintendent of public
instruction
shall consider the person individual
to have a state
elementary or secondary, as applicable, continuing education
certificate.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect July 1,
2018.
