40 Tex. Admin. Code § 809.134 - Minimum Qualifications for Texas Rising Star Staff
(a) Boards and the Agency's designated Texas
Rising Star assessment entity shall:
(1)
conduct a background check on each Texas Rising Star staff member prior to
hiring and again every five years; and
(2) ensure that each Texas Rising Star staff
completes the Texas Rising Star standards training, as described in the Texas
Rising Star guidelines.
(b) Boards shall ensure that Texas Rising
Star mentor staff meets the minimum requirements in subsections (c) - (f) of
this section.
(c) Texas Rising Star
mentor staff shall meet the minimum education requirements as follows:
(1) Bachelor's degree from an accredited
four-year college or university in early childhood education, child
development, special education, child psychology, educational psychology,
elementary education, or family consumer science;
(2) Bachelor's degree from an accredited
four-year college or university with at least 18 credit hours in early
childhood education, child development, special education, child psychology,
educational psychology, elementary education, or family consumer science with
at least 12 credit hours in child development; or
(3) Associate's degree in early childhood
education, child development, special education, child psychology, educational
psychology, elementary education, or family consumer science, and two years of
suitable experience in early childhood education as determined by the
Board.
(d) The Agency
may grant a waiver of no more than two years to obtain the minimum education
requirements in subsection (c) of this section if a Board can demonstrate that
no applicants in its workforce area meet the minimum education
requirements.
(e) Texas Rising Star
mentor staff shall meet the minimum work experience requirements of one year of
full-time early childhood classroom experience in a child care, EHS, HS, or
pre-K through third-grade school program.
(f) All mentors must attain mentor
microcredentialing, as described in the Texas Rising Star Guidelines.
(g) The Agency's designated Texas Rising Star
assessment entity shall ensure that Texas Rising Star assessor staff shall
attain and maintain the Texas Rising Star Assessor Certification, as described
in the Texas Rising Star Guidelines.
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