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1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act relating to postsecondary education;
3 amending s. 240.529, F.S.; providing that,
4 beginning in the 1999-2000 academic year, State
5 University System initial teacher preparation
6 programs shall include an optional teacher
7 internship in a socially and economically
8 disadvantaged area; providing that, beginning
9 in the 2000-2001 academic year, State
10 University System initial teacher preparation
11 programs, in partnership with public school
12 districts, shall establish teaching residency
13 programs in disadvantaged areas; providing for
14 annual stipends for each teacher who has
15 completed such a residency program; amending s.
16 18, ch. 97-384, Laws of Florida; providing for
17 distribution of the Florida Teachers Lead
18 Program funds; providing an effective date.
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20 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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22 Section 1. Paragraph (d) is added to subsection (5) of
23 section 240.529, Florida Statutes, present subsections (6)
24 through (10) are renumbered as subsections (7) through (11),
25 respectively, and a new subsection (6) is added to that
26 section, to read:
27 240.529 Public accountability and state approval for
28 teacher preparation programs.--
29 (5) PRESERVICE FIELD EXPERIENCE.--Beginning July 1,
30 1995, all postsecondary instructors, school district teachers,
31 and school sites preparing teachers through preservice field
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1 experience courses and internships shall meet special
2 requirements.
3 (d) Beginning with the 1999-2000 academic year, State
4 University System initial teacher preparation programs shall
5 provide all students with the option of an internship with
6 multiple field experiences in schools located in socially and
7 economically disadvantaged urban or rural areas. The
8 experiences must provide interns with classroom experiences
9 throughout the academic year. The internship must be designed
10 to provide the intern with the necessary supervision and
11 teaching methodology to become an effective teacher of
12 students who live in a disadvantaged area.
13 (6) URBAN AND RURAL TEACHING RESIDENCY
14 PROGRAM.--Beginning with the 2000-2001 academic year and
15 contingent upon legislative funding, teacher preparation
16 programs at State University System institutions shall
17 establish teaching residencies in partnership with public
18 school districts. Each university, in conjunction with its
19 partners, shall recruit no more than 20 teaching residents per
20 year. The total number of teaching residencies in the state is
21 not to exceed 200 in any given year at the rate of 20 per
22 university. Persons eligible to be hired as teaching residents
23 must have completed teaching internships as specified in
24 paragraph (5)(d). To be eligible to be hired as a teaching
25 resident, a person must have received his or her initial
26 license no more than 2 years before applying for a residency
27 and must have less than 5 months of full-time equivalency
28 teaching experience as a licensed teacher. The residency
29 program must include:
30 (a) A guarantee from participating universities that
31 those who complete initial teacher preparation programs have
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1 the knowledge and experience necessary to succeed in
2 residencies in urban or rural settings and that they are
3 prepared to teach in compliance with the Sunshine State
4 Standards and demonstrate skills at the beginning level of the
5 Florida Accomplished Teaching Practices;
6 (b) A mentoring team consisting of no fewer than one
7 university faculty member and one school district clinical
8 educator for each participating school to provide supervision
9 of the teaching residents;
10 (c) One full-time-equivalent experienced classroom
11 teacher assigned for each cluster of four teaching residents
12 in order to provide alternative assignments for the resident
13 teachers;
14 (d) Residencies lasting for a full academic year; and
15 (e) Teaching assignments for resident teachers of no
16 more than 80 percent of the instructional time required of a
17 full-time-equivalent teacher in the district. During the
18 remaining time, a teaching resident shall participate in
19 professional development activities as identified in
20 conjunction with the school's mentoring team.
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22 The resident teacher will be a member of the local bargaining
23 unit and shall be covered under the terms of the contract.
24 Upon successful completion of the teaching residency, each
25 individual who teaches in a school located in a socially and
26 economically disadvantaged urban or rural area in this state,
27 and as funded by the Legislature in the Division of Human
28 Resources within the Department of Education, will receive a
29 supplemental stipend from the state of $3,000 in each year he
30 or she teaches for the duration of legislative funding for the
31 residency program.
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1 Section 2. Subsection (2) of section 18 of chapter
2 97-384, Laws of Florida, is amended to read:
3 Section 18. The Florida Teachers Lead Program
4 established.--
5 (2) Notwithstanding any other law or any State Board
6 of Education rule to the contrary, each school district shall
7 distribute the Florida Teachers Lead Program funds to each
8 classroom teacher to be expended at the discretion of that
9 teacher to assist teaching and learning in the classroom. The
10 Florida Teachers Lead Program funds shall be deposited into
11 each school's internal account and made available to be
12 expended at the discretion of each classroom teacher to assist
13 teaching and learning in the classroom. Each teacher's
14 allocation shall remain available for the teacher's use until
15 the full amount is expended.
16 Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 1998.
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