AGENDA STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION - real facts omsd

Public Comments: Rules Governing Educator Licensure – June - July 2012
course work that they really already had to teach elementary students.
Working for a Coop or the Department does not an administrator make. These folks are too far removed from
the students and looking at good teaching and learning, in fact they may not know what good teaching and
learning looks like. We need people to be building administrators (and district administrators – I’ll get to that
one on in a while) who have the book knowledge and EXPERIENCE in a building or district. Coop employees
may have to have a license to teach as possibly Department people do as well, but that does not put them in a
building or district in today’s atmosphere of transparency and accountability. I just do not think they can
handle the load.
A K-12 license is okay with one internship. I wonder about removing the P though. So much emphasis has
been put on “state approved” preschools that it seems like a principal should be able to keep that designation
on his/her license.
Portfolios for each licensure level…building – okay, superintendent – okay, curriculum spec – okay…not
building P-8 7-12 that will become K-12 (or P-12); one would be enough there. Does that make sense???
Librarians need the minimum of two years classroom experience, period. They are expected to do lesson
plans , especially at the elementary level and middle school level on library research and other topics. If they
have not had any classroom experience, they may not have the ability/experience to write good lessons.
Districts need QUALIFIED superintendents; not good ole boy from down the street that everyone loves (or
hates). I took the course of study to receive my Ed.S. and tested through ETS to get a passing score to become
licensed as a district administrator (and am finishing up the requirements for my Ed.D.); and we are going to
let anyone become a superintendent? Every superintendent in the state should be screaming about this
proposal. The only way to even get ready for the superintendency (as you may or may not know) is to take
the course work and get experience on top of that course work. If this was introduced to allow "former"
superintendents to work in a state takeover situation it is one thing and should have been drafted that way,
but it is not a good idea to let someone into the superintendency that has no experience in a school setting.
I think it is a bad idea to allow Clinical Counselors to become School Counselors without teaching experience
(same rationale as for the other licensure areas discussed here). They need school experience, period.
It is a bad idea to allow a Speech Therapist to be a Special Ed Supervisor, again same rationale. These people
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