6A-5.090: Content Area Reading Professional Development
PURPOSE AND EFFECT: The purpose of this proposed amendment is to delineate the professional development package designed to provide information that content area teachers need to become proficient in applying scientifically based reading strategies through their content areas, pursuant to Section 1003.413(4)(b), F.S. The effect of the rule will be the provision of Next Generation Content Area Professional Development (NGCAR-PD) that will, upon its completion, allow content area teachers to effectively deliver reading intervention to students who score at Level 2 in reading on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) and do not need instruction in decoding and text reading efficiency.
SUMMARY: The proposed amendment adds Next Generation Content-Area Professional Development.
SUMMARY OF STATEMENT OF ESTIMATED REGULATORY COSTS: The Agency has determined that this will not have an impact on small business. An SERC has not been prepared by the agency.
Any person who wishes to provide information regarding a statement of estimated regulatory costs, or provide a proposal for a lower cost regulatory alternative must do so in writing within 21 days of this notice.
RULEMAKING AUTHORITY: 1001.02(2), 1001.215, 1003.4156, 1003.428 FS.
LAW IMPLEMENTED: 1003.413(4)(b), 1001.215, 1003.4156, 1003.428 FS.
A HEARING WILL BE HELD AT THE DATE, TIME AND PLACE SHOWN BELOW:
DATE AND TIME: March 15, 2011, 8:30 a.m.
PLACE: Tallahassee, Florida. For exact location please go to our website at http://www.fldoe.org/board/meetings/, 7 days prior to the meeting.
THE PERSON TO BE CONTACTED REGARDING THE PROPOSED RULE IS: Stuart Greenberg, Executive Director, Just Read, Florida! and the Office of Early Learning, Department of Education, Suite 514, 325 West Gaines Street, Tallahassee, Florida 32399, (850)245-0445
THE FULL TEXT OF THE PROPOSED RULE IS:
6A-5.090 Content Area Reading Professional Development and Next Generation Content Area Professional Development.
(1) Pursuant to Section 1003.413(4)(b), F.S., the Department of Education must provide a professional development package designed to provide information that content area teachers in grades 6-12 need to become proficient in applying scientifically based reading strategies through their content areas. Content Area Reading Professional Development (CAR-PD) and Next Generation Content Area Reading Professional Development (NGCAR-PD) are is designed to prepare content area teachers to effectively deliver reading intervention to students who are fluent readers in English and who score at Level 2 in reading on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) and do not need instruction in decoding and text reading efficiency. Districts may elect whether to offer CAR-PD or NGCAR-PD as options an option within a school or school district. If a district elects to offer CAR-PD or NGCAR-PD the district must transition solely to NGCAR-PD by August 2012.
(2) Personnel for whom CAR-PD or NGCAR-PD is appropriate.
(a) In accordance with Rule 6A-6.054, F.A.C., teachers who are not certified in Reading (Grades K-12) or endorsed in reading, or who do not meet the definition of “highly qualified” in reading under the federal No Child Left Behind Act, and who provide reading intervention to fluent Level 2 students who do not need instruction in decoding and text reading efficiency in their content area class must complete the CAR-PD package or NGCAR-PD.
(b) Career and technical educators, both those who have a state-issued teaching certificate and those who do not, are candidates for the CAR-PD package or NGCAR-PD. In addition, those teachers may enroll in and complete the district add-on reading endorsement program if they wish to acquire advanced knowledge in teaching reading.
(3) The CAR-PD one hundred fifty (150) hour package consists of Florida On-Line Reading Professional Development (FOR-PD) or Florida Reading Initiative (FRI) or any state approved Ccompetency 2 of in the Rreading Eendorsement Competencies, as incorporated by reference in Rule 6A-4.013, F.A.C., for sixty (60) inservice points, the CAR-PD Face to Face Academy for sixty (60) inservice points and a thirty (30) hour practicum developed by the Department Florida Literacy and Reading Excellence (FLaRE) and/or developed by the district and approved by the Department. Districts must provide adequate content and materials for the practicum to address the needs of content area teachers serving students scoring Level 2 who do not have decoding and text reading deficiencies to receive approval. Each district practicum must address Competency 6 indicators to include the following indicators from the Reading Endorsement Competencies: 6.1, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.9, 6.10 and 6.12 as incorporated by reference in Rule 6A-4.0163, F.A.C.
(4) Content area teachers must take FOR-PD or FRI or any state approved Ccompetency 2 of the Reading Endorsement Competencies, as incorporated by reference in Rule 6A-4.0163, F.A.C., in the reading endorsement in its entirety before beginning the sixty (60) hour Face to Face CAR-PD Academy. Once Competency 2 is those two (2) courses are completed, content area teachers may begin to provide reading intervention through their content area classes to fluent students who score Level 2 on FCAT and do not need instruction in decoding and text reading competence These teachers may take the sixty (60) hour Face to Face CAR-PD, and the thirty (30) hour practicum simultaneously with providing reading intervention.
(5) NGCAR-PD consists of a sixty (60) hour Face to Face Academy and a thirty (30) hour practicum developed by the Department or developed by the district and approved by the Department. Once teachers enroll and start the NGCAR-PD content area package, content area teachers may begin to provide reading intervention through their content area classes to students who score Level 2 on FCAT and do not need instruction in decoding and text reading efficiency.
(6)(5) The district shall decide who will facilitate the district practicum. Additionally, the district shall decide the time configuration of the sixty (60) hour Face to Face Academy.
(7)(6) NGCAR-PD CAR-PD is a train the trainer model, facilitated by the Department’s staff and FLaRE coordinators are the designated professional developers for the school or district-based NGCAR-PD CAR-PD teacher trainers. Once trained by the Department FLaRE, these district-based teacher trainers facilitators may return to their school or districts and deliver the sixty (60) hour Face to Face NGCAR-PD CAR-PD Academy to content area teachers.
(8)(7) Educators who have Reading Endorsement or Reading Certification K-12 are qualified to train content area teachers required to complete the sixty (60) hour Face to Face CAR-PD or sixty (60) hour Face to Face NGCAR-PD Academy in order to be qualified to train content area teachers. Other educators with reading expertise, and at the discretion of and selection by the district, may also qualify to teach the sixty (60) hour Face to Face CAR-PD or the sixty (60) hour Face to Face NGCAR-PD. Educators providing CAR-PD Academy to content area teachers must if they complete the entire one hundred fifty (150) hour CAR-PD package prior to teaching the sixty (60) hour Face to Face CAR-PD Academy. Educators providing NGCAR-PD to content area teachers must complete the entire ninety (90) hour NGCAR-PD package prior to teaching the sixty (60) hour Face to Face NGCAR-PD. Other educators must complete the one hundred fifty (150) hour CAR-PD package in order to be qualified to be a trainer of content area teachers.
(9)(8) CAR-PD and NGCAR-PD do does not fulfill the requirements for the a Reading Endorsement.
(10)(9) Inservice hours earned through CAR-PD or NGCAR-PD may be used for renewal of certificates in all subject areas.
Rulemaking Specific Authority 1001.02(2), 1001.215, 1003.413(3)(g), (4)(b), 1003.4156, 1003.428 FS. Law Implemented 1001.215, 1003.413(3)(g), (4)(b), 1003.4156, 1003.428 FS. History– New 5-19-08, Amended________.