Or. Admin. Code § 581-022-0102 - Definitions
The following definitions apply to Oregon Administrative Rules 581-022-0102 through 581-022-1940, unless otherwise indicated by context:
(1)
"Assessment": Systematic gathering of data with the purpose of appraising and
evaluating children's social, physical, emotional, and intellectual
development. Activities may include testing to obtain and organize information
on student performance in specific subject areas.
(2) Career and Technical Education: A
sequence of organized educational activities that:
(a) Provides individuals with coherent and
rigorous content aligned with challenging academic standards and relevant
technical knowledge and skills needed to prepare for further education and
careers;
(b) Provides technical
skill proficiency and may provide an industry-recognized credential, a
certificate or an advanced degree; and
(c) Includes applied learning that
contributes to an individual's academic and technical knowledge, higher-order
reasoning and problem-solving skills, work attitudes and general employability
skills.
(3) "Career
Development": The exploration of personal interests and abilities with regard
to career selection, and the development of tentative career goals.
(4) "Career Education": A process for
improving educational programs to enhance student understanding of and
preparation for work and continuing career development.
(5) "Career-Related Learning Experiences":
Structured student activities in the community, the workplace, or in school
that connect academic content and career-related learning to real life
applications. These experiences extend, reinforce and support classroom
learning. They include, but are not limited to:
(a) Workplace mentoring;
(b) Workplace simulations;
(c) School-based enterprises;
(d) Structured work experiences;
(e) Cooperative work and study
programs;
(f) On-the-job
training;
(g) Apprenticeship
programs;
(h) Service learning;
and
(i) Field-based
investigations.
(6)
"Charter school": A public charter school as defined in ORS
338.005.
(7) "Child development specialist program":
An optional elementary component of a district's comprehensive school
counseling program for grades K-8 (or any configuration thereof).
(8) "Collection of Evidence": The work of a
student collected and evaluated together to measure the student's ability to
apply what the student knows and can do in relation to a set of standards or
criteria.
(9) "Common Curriculum
Goals": The knowledge and skills expected of all students as a result of their
educational experience; defined by the state as:
(a) The Essential Learning Skills which means
essential skills as defined by this rule; and
(b) The Content Standards as adopted by the
State Board of Education.
(10) "Content Standards": Facts, concepts,
principles, rules, procedures and methods of inquiry associated with specific
subject matter areas as adopted by the State Board of Education.
(11) "Common School District": A school
district other than a union high school district formed primarily to provide
education in all or part of grades K through 12 to pupils residing within the
district (ORS 330.005(2)(b)).
See section (20) of this rule.
(12)
"Community Partnerships": Collaborations to network resources to assist
students to meet state and local standards and prepare students for post high
school transitions. These partnerships include parents, students, business,
education, government and community-based organizations.
(13) "Compliance Indicator": Statement of the
action taken by a local district which can be accepted as evidence that the
district is in compliance with the intent of a particular state
standard.
(14) "Comprehensive
school counseling program": A program that is integral to a district's total
PreK through 12 educational program that is planned, proactive and preventative
in design to address each student's academic, career, social/emotional
development and community involvement.
(15) "Conditionally Standard School": A
school that fails to meet the standards but has submitted a plan of correction,
approved by the district school board, to the State Superintendent.
(16) "Course Goals": Statements describing
the knowledge and skills students are expected to acquire as a result of having
completed a course, elementary unit, or grade level.
(17) "Diploma": The document issued by school
districts and charter schools in accordance with OAR
581-022-1130 or
581-022-1134.
(18) "District": A common or union high
school district (ORS 332.002(2)).
(19) "District Goals": Statements related to
State Board of Education goals (OAR
581-022-1030) which describe the
local district and community's expectations for student learning.
(20) "District School Board": The board of
directors of a common school district or a union high school district (ORS
332.002(1)).
(21) "Education Plan": A formalized plan and
process in which a student identifies their academic, personal and career
interests which helps the student to connect school activities with their
post-high school goals.
(22)
"Education Profile": Documentation of a student's academic achievement and
progress toward their graduation requirements, post-high school goals and other
personal accomplishments identified in their education plan.
(23) "Education Record": has the same meaning
as in OAR 581-021-0220.
(24) "Elementary School": Any combination of
grades K through 8.
(25) "Essential
Skills": Process skills that cross academic disciplines and are embedded in the
content standards. The skills are not content specific and can be applied in a
variety of courses, subjects, and settings. The essential skills include: Read
and comprehend a variety of text; Write clearly and accurately; Listen actively
and speak clearly and coherently; Apply mathematics in a variety of settings;
Think critically and analytically; Use technology to learn, live, and work;
Demonstrate civic and community engagement; Demonstrate global literacy; and
Demonstrate personal management and teamwork skills.
(26) "Extended Application Standard": The
application and extension of knowledge and skills in new and complex situations
related to the student's personal and career interests and post-high school
goals.
(27) "Global Studies": An
area of study for learning about the people and cultures of the world through
history, geography and other social studies disciplines.
(28) "High School": Any combination of grades
10 through 12 in districts providing a junior high school containing grade 9;
any combination of grades 9 through 12 organized as a separate unit; grades 9
through 12 housed with grades K through 12; grades 7 or 8 through 12, if
approved by the Oregon Department of Education.
(29) "Identification Team" referred to as the
"Team": A team of at least two district staff who carry out district
identification procedures and determine the identification of students under
OAR 581-022-1310.
(30)
(a)
"Instructional time" means time during which students are engaged in regularly
scheduled instruction, learning activities, or learning assessments that are
designed to meet Common Curriculum Goals and academic content standards
required by OAR 581-022-2030, and are working
under the direction and supervision of a licensed or registered teacher,
licensed CTE instructor, licensed practitioner, or Educational Assistant who is
assigned instructionally related activities and is working under the
supervision of a licensed or registered teacher as required by OAR
581-037-0015.
(b) Instructional time shall include:
(A) Time that a student spends traveling
between the student's school and a CTE center, internship, work experience
site, or post-secondary education facility;
(B) Time that a student spends in statewide
performance assessments; and
(C) Up
to fifteen minutes each day of the time that a student spends consuming
breakfast in the classroom if instruction is being provided while the student
is consuming breakfast.
(c) Instructional time shall not include time
that a student spends passing between classes, at recess, in non-academic
assemblies, on non-academic field trips, participating in optional school
programs, or in study periods or advisory periods where attendance is not
required and no instructional assistance is provided.
(31) "Junior High School": A secondary school
composed of one or more of grades 7, 8, and 9 organized separately from other
grades and approved by the Oregon Department of Education.
(32) "Kindergarten": A planned program that
provides activities designed to foster the physical, social, emotional, and
cognitive development of young children (ORS
336.092 and
336.095).
(33) "Language Arts": Reading, writing and
other communications in any language, including English, as defined in ORS
329.007.
(34) "Middle School": An organizational unit
composed of any combination of grades 5, 6, 7, and 8 organized separately from
other elementary grades and identified as a middle school with the Oregon
Department of Education.
(35) "Next
steps": The education and/or career choices students make after leaving high
school, which may include the workforce, community colleges, four-year colleges
and universities, private career schools, apprenticeships, and the
military.
(36) "Nonstandard
School": A school which fails to meet the standards, and which within ninety
days of the State Superintendent's notification of deficiencies, fails to
submit a plan of correction or adhere to a plan of correction approved by the
State Superintendent (ORS
327.103).
(37) "Parent": Has the same definition as in
Oregon Revised Statute 343.035.
(38) "Planned Course Statement": Course
title, course overview, course goals (including essential learning skills,
career-related goals and common curriculum goals as set forth in OARs
581-022-2030) and, where
appropriate, graduation competence assigned to the course for
verification.
(39) "Potential": As
used in OAR 581-022-1310, the demonstrated
capacity to perform at or above the 97th percentile as determined by the
team.
(40) "Program": A planned
series of interrelated activities or services contributing to the attainment of
a goal or set of goals.
(41)
"Program Evaluation": A process for making judgments about the philosophy,
goals, methods, materials and outcomes of a program to guide program
improvement.
(42) "Program Goals"
(instructional): Statements describing what students are expected to learn in
each district instructional program in any combination of grades K through
12.
(43) "Program Goals" (support):
Statements describing program outcomes which support the entire learning
system, or one or more of its components, usually stated in terms of services
to be performed.
(44) "Program
Needs Identification": Procedures, which specify and rank the differences
between actual and desired outcomes leading to the consideration of program
revision.
(45) "School District": A
common or union high school district (ORS
332.002). For the purposes of
OARs 581-022-0403, 581-022-1310,
581-022-1320 and 581-022 1330,
school district has the same meaning as in Oregon Revised Statute
343.395.
(46) "Standard School": A
school, which is in compliance with all of the standards.
(47) "State Standards": State Board division
22 Administrative Rules for public elementary and secondary schools.
(48) "Student Activity Funds": All money
raised or collected by and/or for school-approved student groups, excluding
money budgeted in the general fund.
(49) "Talented and Gifted Students": Those
children defined in Oregon Revised Statute 343.395.
(50) "Union High School District": A school
district, other than a common school district, formed in accordance with ORS
335.210 to
335.485 (330.005).
(51) "World Language": Sign language,
heritage language and languages other than a student's primary language, as
defined in ORS 329.007.
Notes
Publications: Publications referenced are available from the agency.
Statutory/Other Authority: ORS 326.051
Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS 326.011
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