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                                                      HOUSE BILL 1763

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State of Washington                              53rd Legislature                             1993 Regular Session

By Representatives Basich, Brumsickle, Jacobsen, Kremen, Cothern, Wood, Wineberry, Finkbeiner, Hansen, Roland, Karahalios, Eide, Pruitt, G. Fisher, Leonard, Holm, King, Quall, Johanson and Patterson

Read first time 02/08/93.  Referred to Committee on Education.

Requiring teacher preparation programs to include in curricula ways to enhance self-esteem.

          AN ACT Relating to teacher preparation programs; and amending RCW 28B.10.032.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

        Sec. 1.  RCW 28B.10.032 and 1987 c 525 s 233 are each amended to read as follows:

          The state's public and private institutions of higher education offering teacher preparation programs and school districts (1) are encouraged to explore ways to facilitate faculty exchanges, and other cooperative arrangements, to generate increased awareness and understanding by higher education faculty of the common school teaching experience and increased awareness and understanding by common school faculty of the teacher preparation programs; and (2) shall include in their curricula for future teachers ways to enhance the self-esteem of common school students.

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