Novice practitioners. Providers prepare candidates who are
role ready.
(1) Providers prepare
candidates who are ready to engage effectively in their role and context upon
completion of educator preparation programs.
(a) The provider demonstrates that program
completers perceive their preparation as relevant to the responsibilities they
confront on the job, and that the preparation was effective.
(b) Providers demonstrate that completers
effectively apply the professional knowledge, skills, dispositions, and
technical proficiency that the preparation experiences were designed to
achieve.
(c) Faculty and
supervisors contextualize educators' practice within contemporary
socio-political context and within the administrative regulations in schools
and districts.
(d) Inform and
orient candidates to Washington state processes of certification, licensure,
endorsements and ongoing professional learning opportunities and requirements
as they apply to the role for which the candidate is being certified.
(2) Providers prepare candidates
to develop reflective, collaborative, and professional growth-centered
practices through regular evaluation of the effects of their practice through
feedback and reflection.
(a) Prepare educator
candidates to understand and demonstrate achievement and improvement in their
practice.
(b) Providers prepare
candidates to seek new learning to remain current in subject area(s),
educational theories, practices, research, and ethical practice.
(c) Ensure that all candidates who complete
the program exit the program with a professional growth plan (PGP) for program
completion according to the guidance published by the professional educator
standards board.
Candidates will align their PGPs to the most recently
published standards as follows:
Teachers: The Interstate Teacher Assessment and Support
Consortium (InTASC) standards.
CTE teachers: Standards under WAC 181-77A-165 and as
published by the professional educator standards board.
Principals: The National Policy Board for Educational
Administration (NPBEA) National Educational Leadership Preparation (NELP)
Standards - Building level.
Superintendents: The National Policy Board for Educational
Administration (NPBEA) National Educational Leadership Preparation (NELP)
Standards - District level.
Program administrators: The National Policy Board for
Educational Administration (NPBEA) National Educational Leadership Preparation
(NELP) Standards - District or building level.
CTE directors: Standards as published by the professional
educator standards board.
School counselors: American School Counseling Association
(ASCA) Professional Standards and Competencies.
School psychologists: National Association of School
Psychologists (NASP) Professional Practices.
(3) Providers prepare candidates for their
role in directing, supervising, and evaluating paraeducators.
(a) Prepare teacher candidates to direct
paraeducators working with students in the classroom.
(b) Prepare administrator candidates to
supervise and evaluate paraeducators in schools.
(c) Providers ensure that all educator
candidates demonstrate knowledge of the paraeducator standards of practice, as
published by the paraeducator board.
(4) Providers require candidates to
demonstrate knowledge of teacher evaluation research and Washington's
evaluation requirements.
(a) Providers ensure
educator candidates examine Washington's evaluation requirements specific to
their role, including criteria, four-tiered performance rating system, student
growth goals, and the preferred instructional frameworks used to describe the
evaluation criteria.
(b) Providers
ensure educator candidates demonstrate knowledge and skill in self-assessment,
goal setting, and reflective practice.
(c) Providers of administrator programs
ensure candidates examine and practice classroom observation skills that
recognize and limit bias and promote rater agreement on the four-tiered
system.
(d) Providers of
administrator programs ensure candidates demonstrate knowledge and skill using
student growth data and multiple measures of performance for use in
evaluations.
(e) Providers of
administrator programs ensure candidates demonstrate knowledge and skill
conducting evaluation conferences and developing teacher and principal support
plans resulting from evaluations.
(f) Providers of administrator programs
ensure candidates demonstrate knowledge and skill in the use of an online tool
to manage the collection of observation notes, teacher and principal submitted
materials, and other information related to the conduct of the
evaluation.
Notes
Wash. Admin.
Code §
181-78A-233
Adopted by
WSR
19-15-144, Filed 7/24/2019, effective
8/24/2019
Amended by
WSR
21-08-023, Filed 3/29/2021, effective
4/29/2021
Amended by
WSR
21-15-085, Filed 7/16/2021, effective
8/16/2021
