Section Ed 601.01 - Definitions A-F(a) "Action plan" means a plan created by a professional educator preparation program (PEPP) during its term of approval outlining steps to address concerns that have arisen with regard to program approval standards.(b) "Approved educator preparation program (AEPP)" means a PEPP approved by the state board under Ed 505.05. The term also includes "educator preparation provider (EPP)."(c) "Appeal process" means the process an institution takes to appeal a non-approval designation on its accreditation status.(d) "Assessment system" means the system used by an institution to assess and evaluate program(s) and candidates. The term includes the processes and instruments used by an institution's PEPP to collect, synthesize, and evaluate data for the purpose of continuous improvement.(e) "Baccalaureate program" means a program that leads to a bachelor's degree.(f) "Best practice" means an objective and measurable method or technique that has been generally accepted by the educational professional associations as superior to any alternatives because it produces results that are superior to those achieved by other means.(g) "Candidate" means a student who is enrolled in a PEPP for the purpose of acquiring a New Hampshire educator licensure.(h) "Candidate assessment" means the processes by which a PEPP monitors and evaluates the acquisition of knowledge, skills, and dispositions by each candidate as a candidate progresses through a PEPP.(i) "Certification officer" means the individual or the designee, identified by the institution of higher education for the New Hampshire department of education, who verifies completion of PEPP(s) by licensure candidates.(j) "Clinical experiences" means the ongoing opportunities that immerse candidates in the learning community enabling them to develop and demonstrate competence in the professional role for which they are preparing.(k) "Clinical experience educator" means individuals from PEPPs and pre-k through 12 school-based licensed teachers, specialists, or administrators, who meet the requirements of Ed 604.03, including educators who assess, support, evaluate, and develop a candidate's knowledge, skills, or professional disposition.(l) "Clinical experience coordinator" means a faculty member or designee who is responsible for coordinating and managing a candidate's clinical experience.(m) "Clinical experience supervisor" means a person designated by the PEPP to supervise and evaluate a candidate during the culminating clinical experience.(n) "Clinical practice" means student teaching, practicum, or internship opportunities that provide candidates with an intensive and extensive culminating set of responsibilities, assignments, tasks, activities, and assessments that demonstrate candidates' progressive development of the professional knowledge, skills, and dispositions to be effective educators.(o) "Commissioner" means the commissioner of the New Hampshire department of education.(p) "Competency" means mastery of learning outcomes based on standards defined in Ed 505.02 and Ed 608 as appropriate.(q) "Core competencies" means the competencies delineated in Ed 505.02.(r) "Curriculum" means the structure and design of coursework and other learning experiences which a PEPP provides for each candidate to gain the knowledge and skills required by the applicable educator program standards.(s) "Department" means the New Hampshire department of education (NHED).(t) "Director" means the director of the division of educator support and higher education.(u) "Dispositions" mean the personal qualities or characteristics that are possessed by an educator, including attitudes, interests, appreciations, values, commitments, professional ethics, and modes of adjustment which strongly influence the impact the educator will have on student learning, motivation, and development.(v) "Division" means the division of program support, NHED.(w) "Diversity" means ethnicity, race, socio-economic status, gender, exceptionalities, language, learning styles, religion, sexual-orientation, and geographical area.(x) "Educator program standards" means the requirements of Ed 607 and Ed 608.(y) "Evidence" means everything provided by an institution that is used to determine or demonstrate the truth of claims made about the institution's program assessment system.(z) "Facilitation" means the act of assisting or making easier the progress, improvement, and ownership of student learning in traditional and non-traditional environments.(aa) "Focused review" means monitoring based on PEPP progress in implementing the action steps resulting from a program approval visit.N.H. Admin. Code § Ed 601.01
#2055, eff 6-16-82; ss by #2714, eff 5-16-84, EXPIRED 5-16-90
New. #4851, eff 6-25-90; EXPIRED 6-25-96
New. #6366, eff 10-30-96; ss by #8024, eff 7-1-04; ss by #8229, eff 12-17-04; ss by #10295, eff 3-22-13
Amended by Number 41, Filed October 12, 2023, Proposed by #13747, Effective 9/16/2023, Expires 9/16/2033.