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SENATE AMENDMENT
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18 Section 48. Paragraph (d) is added to subsection (5)
19 of section 240.529, Florida Statutes, present subsections (6)
20 through (10) are renumbered as subsections (7) through (11),
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23 240.529 Public accountability and state approval for
24 teacher preparation programs.--
25 (5) PRESERVICE FIELD EXPERIENCE.--Beginning July 1,
26 1995, all postsecondary instructors, school district teachers,
27 and school sites preparing teachers through preservice field
28 experience courses and internships shall meet special
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30 (d) Beginning with the 1998-1999 academic year, State
31 University System initial teacher preparation programs shall
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1 provide all students with the option of an internship with
2 multiple field experiences in schools located in socially and
3 economically disadvantaged urban or rural areas. The
4 experiences must provide interns with classroom experiences
5 throughout the academic year. The internship must be designed
6 to provide the intern with the necessary supervision and
7 teaching methodology to become an effective teacher of
8 students who live in a disadvantaged area.
9 (6) URBAN AND RURAL TEACHING RESIDENCY
10 PROGRAM.--Beginning with the 1999-2000 academic year and
11 contingent upon legislative funding, teacher preparation
12 programs at State University System institutions shall
13 establish teaching residencies in partnership with public
14 school districts. Each university, in conjunction with its
15 partners, shall recruit no more than 20 teaching residents per
16 year. The total number of teaching residencies in the state is
17 not to exceed 200 in any given year at the rate of 20 per
18 university. Persons eligible to be hired as teaching residents
19 must have completed teaching internships as specified in
20 paragraph (5)(d). To be eligible to be hired as a teaching
21 resident, a person must have received his or her initial
22 license no more than 2 years before applying for a residency
23 and must have less than 5 months of full-time equivalency
24 teaching experience as a licensed teacher. The residency
25 program must include:
26 (a) A guarantee from participating universities that
27 those who complete initial teacher preparation programs have
28 the knowledge and experience necessary to succeed in
29 residencies in urban or rural settings and that they are
30 prepared to teach in compliance with the Sunshine State
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1 Florida Accomplished Teaching Practices;
2 (b) A mentoring team consisting of no fewer than one
3 university faculty member and one school district clinical
4 educator for each participating school to provide supervision
5 of the teaching residents;
6 (c) One full-time-equivalent experienced classroom
7 teacher assigned for each cluster of four teaching residents
8 in order to provide alternative assignments for the resident
9 teachers;
10 (d) Residencies lasting for a full academic year; and
11 (e) Teaching assignments for resident teachers of no
12 more than 80 percent of the instructional time required of a
13 full-time-equivalent teacher in the district. During the
14 remaining time, a teaching resident shall participate in
15 professional development activities as identified in
16 conjunction with the school's mentoring team.
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18 The resident teacher will be a member of the local bargaining
19 unit and shall be covered under the terms of the contract.
20 Upon successful completion of the teaching residency, each
21 individual who teaches in a school located in a socially and
22 economically disadvantaged urban or rural area in this state,
23 and as funded by the Legislature in the Division of Human
24 Resources within the Department of Education, will receive a
25 supplemental stipend from the state of $3,000 in each year he
26 or she teaches for the duration of legislative funding for the
27 residency program.
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2 And the title is amended as follows:
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6 amending s. 240.529, F.S.; providing that,
7 beginning in the 1998-1999 academic year, State
8 University System initial teacher preparation
9 programs shall include an optional teacher
10 internship in a socially and economically
11 disadvantaged area; providing that, beginning
12 in the 1999-2000 academic year, State
13 University System initial teacher preparation
14 programs, in partnership with public school
15 districts, shall establish teaching residency
16 programs in disadvantaged areas; providing for
17 annual stipends for each teacher who has
18 completed such a residency program;
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