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                          HOUSE BILL 1729

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State of Washington      56th Legislature     1999 Regular Session

By Representatives Kenney, Carlson, Lantz, Quall, Skinner, Reardon, Gombosky, Edwards, Anderson, Veloria, Edmonds, Dunn, Stensen, McIntire, Kagi, Conway, Regala, Lovick, D. Schmidt, Ogden, Keiser, Dickerson and Santos

Read first time 02/03/1999.  Referred to Committee on Higher Education.

Creating a teacher training pilot program.

    AN ACT Relating to a teacher training pilot program; adding a new section to chapter 28B.10 RCW; creating a new section; making appropriations; and providing an expiration date.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  There is a need for a coordinated program of teacher training that will involve high schools, community colleges, and four-year institutions of higher education in a collaborative seamless approach to developing teachers for the kindergarten through twelfth grade system.  Therefore, it is the intent of the legislature that an innovative pilot project be established for teacher training and attracting teacher candidates.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  A new section is added to chapter 28B.10 RCW to read as follows:

    (1) Cascadia College and the University of Washington Bothell campus shall conduct a pilot project and design essential components of a high quality and effective teacher education program.  Cascadia College and the University of Washington Bothell campus shall use shared facilities and share resources and cocurricular planning to establish the teaching training program.  This collaborative planning and implementation approach shall involve participants from the liberal arts curriculum and professional education faculty, as well as classroom teachers from school districts.  This coordinated approach to teacher training shall include, but is not limited to:

    (a) Designing a college-level course for enrollment of selected high school seniors interested in teaching careers;

    (b) Designing discipline-based lower division courses that are thematically linked to upper division courses in the liberal studies curriculum and supportive of teaching areas appropriate for prospective teachers;

    (c) Designing a preprofessional educational studies minor that would be pursued by prospective kindergarten through eighth grade teachers in conjunction with a liberal studies major;

    (d) Designing mentoring and service learning activities at the community college level that would provide prospective teachers with an orientation to professional education; and

    (e) Designing a fifth year of instruction consisting of field experiences, including a school-based teaching internship, and pedagogical coursework leading to teacher certification.

    (2) The pilot project in this section shall conclude no later than January 1, 2005.

    (3) Beginning in December 31, 2001, Cascadia College and the University of Washington Bothell campus shall submit an annual written report to the higher education coordinating board, the state board for community and technical colleges, and the education and higher education committees of the legislature on the status of the pilot project in this section.

    (4) This section expires January 30, 2005.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 3.  (1) The sum of one hundred fifty thousand dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2000, from the general fund to the higher education coordinating board to implement the pilot project in section 2 of this act.

    (2) The sum of one hundred fifty thousand dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2001, from the general fund to the higher education coordinating board to implement the pilot project in section 2 of this act.

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