Section 67.1-02-04-07 - Clinical practice optionApplicants who have entered the profession of teaching through alternative access licensure under section 67.1-02-04-01, elementary, middle, or secondary endorsement under 67.1-02-03, or trade, industry, technical, and health occupations interim licensure under section 67.1-02-04-06 and are seeking to complete the requirements for regular licensure under section 67.1-02-02-02 may meet the student teaching requirement through a supervised clinical practice option meeting the following conditions:
1. The applicant requesting the clinical practice option must hold a valid regular license, alternative access license or trade, industry, technical, and health occupations interim license and be employed under contract by an approved school during the clinical practice. The clinical practice option is not intended to be used by applicants who are not under contract and would not need release time from those contracts to complete a regular student teaching experience.2. The clinical practice option must be approved by the board before it begins as part of the applicant's program of study toward regular licensure and must be conducted under the supervision of a state-approved college of teacher education. Criteria and evaluations for successful completion of the clinical experience must parallel and meet or exceed those the college of teacher education applies to student teaching experiences and the clinical practice must be at the appropriate grade levels for the licensure sought.3. The school employing the applicant and the applicant must submit letters to the board requesting the clinical practice option and verifying their support of the agreement.4. The clinical practice option must require a minimum of ten weeks of close supervision (five weeks of close supervision if the applicant has already been prepared as a teacher), which includes an equitable combination of daily meetings with or observations of the applicant at the beginning of the experience, by an onsite teacher meeting the qualifications for cooperating teachers under section 67.1-02-01-02 and by the school building principal or other supervisor responsible for evaluations of teachers under North Dakota Century Code sections 15.1-15-01 and 15.1-15-04 and must include onsite visits by college supervisors which meet or exceed the requirements for student teacher supervision under section 67.1-02-01-03.5. The clinical practice option includes mentoring of the applicant for at least one school year (one semester if the applicant has already been prepared as a teacher) by the onsite cooperating teacher and may also include mentoring by an offsite content area specialist. The mentoring occurs outside of the applicant's regular teaching assignment time and meets or exceeds the contact that would occur in a ten-week, full-time student teaching experience.6. Upon completion of the clinical practice option, documentation of evaluations and transcripts verifying successful completion of the clinical practice will be provided through the college of teacher education to the board.7. Applicants holding valid alternative access licensure under section 67.1-02-04-01 or trade, industry, technical, and health occupations interim licensure under section 67.1-02-04-06 who have successfully completed all of the other requirements for regular two-year initial licensure under section 67.1-02-02-02, except for ten weeks of supervised student teaching, may use the successful clinical practice meeting the conditions of this section to fulfill the student teaching requirement.N.D. Admin Code 67.1-02-04-07
Effective August 1, 2002; amended effective July 1, 2004; April 1, 2006; July 1, 2008.Amended by Administrative Rules Supplement 2020-378, October 2020, effective 10/1/2020.General Authority: NDCC 15.1-13-09, 15.1-13-10
Law Implemented: NDCC 15.1-13-10