| (II) the EPP certifies that the first practicum was
successful and that the candidate is making satisfactory progress
toward completing the EPP before the end of the additional practicum.
(E) A practicum is successful when the field supervisor
and the site supervisor recommend to the EPP that the candidate should
be recommended for a standard certificate. If either the field supervisor
or site supervisor does not recommend that the candidate should be
recommended for a standard certificate, the person who does not recommend
the candidate must provide documentation supporting the lack of recommendation
to the candidate and either the field supervisor or site supervisor.
(9) Subject to all the requirements of this section,
the TEA may approve a school that is not a public school accredited
by the TEA as a site for field-based experience, internship, clinical
teaching, and/or practicum.
(A) All Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA)
schools, wherever located, and all schools accredited by the Texas
Private School Accreditation Commission (TEPSAC) are approved by the
TEA for purposes of field-based experience, internship, clinical teaching,
and/or practicum.
(B) An EPP may file an application, with the appropriate
fee specified in §229.9(6) of this title (relating to Fees for
Educator Preparation Program Approval and Accountability), with the
TEA for approval, subject to periodic review, of a public school,
a private school, or a school system located within any state or territory
of the United States, as a site for field-based experience. The application
shall be in a form developed by the TEA staff and shall include, at
a minimum, evidence showing that the instructional standards of the
school or school system align with those of the applicable Texas Essential
Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) and SBEC certification standards.
(C) An EPP may file an application, with the appropriate
fee specified in §229.9(6) of this title, with the TEA for approval,
subject to periodic review, of a public or private school for a candidate's
placement located within any state or territory of the United States,
as a site for clinical teaching or practicum required by this chapter.
(i) The clinical teaching or practicum site may be
approved for a candidate who must complete requirements outside the
state of Texas due to the following reasons if they occur following
admission to the EPP:
(I) military assignment of candidate or spouse;
(II) illness of candidate or family member for whom
the candidate is the primary caretaker;
(III) candidate becomes the primary caretaker for a
family member residing out of state; or
(IV) candidate or spouse transfer of employment.
(ii) The application shall identify the circumstances
that necessitate the request to complete clinical teaching or a practicum
outside of the state of Texas and be in a form developed by the TEA
staff and shall include, at a minimum:
(I) the accreditation(s) held by the school;
(II) a crosswalk comparison of the alignment of the
instructional standards of the school with those of the applicable
TEKS and SBEC certification standards;
(III) the certification, credentials, and training
of the field supervisor(s) who will supervise candidates in the school;
and
(IV) the measures that will be taken by the EPP to
ensure that the candidate's experience will be equivalent to that
of a candidate in a Texas public school accredited by the TEA.
(D) An EPP may file an application, with the appropriate
fee specified in §229.9(6) of this title, with the TEA for approval,
subject to periodic review, of a public or private school for a candidate's
placement located outside the United States, as a site for clinical
teaching or a practicum required by this chapter.
(i) The site may be approved for a candidate who must
complete requirements outside the United States due to the following
reasons if they occur following admission to the EPP:
(I) military assignment of candidate or spouse;
(II) illness of candidate or family member for whom
the candidate is the primary caretaker;
(III) candidate becomes the primary caretaker for a
family member residing out of country; or
(IV) candidate or spouse transfer of employment.
(ii) The application shall identify the circumstances
that necessitate the request to complete clinical teaching or a practicum
outside of the United States and be in a form developed by the TEA
staff and shall include, at a minimum, the same provisions required
in subparagraph (C)(ii) of this paragraph for schools located within
any state or territory of the United States, with the addition of
a description of the on-site program personnel and program support
that will be provided and a description of the school's recognition
by the U.S. State Department Office of Overseas Schools.
(f) Mentors, cooperating teachers, and site supervisors.
In order to support a new educator and to increase educator retention,
an EPP shall collaborate with the campus or district administrator
to assign each candidate a mentor during the candidate's internship,
assign a cooperating teacher during the candidate's clinical teaching
experience, or assign a site supervisor during the candidate's practicum.
If an individual who meets the certification category and/or experience
criteria for a cooperating teacher, mentor, or site supervisor is
not available, the EPP and campus or district administrator shall
assign an individual who most closely meets the criteria and document
the reason for selecting an individual that does not meet the criteria.
The EPP is responsible for providing mentor, cooperating teacher,
and/or site supervisor training that relies on scientifically-based
research, but the program may allow the training to be provided by
a school, district, or regional education service center if properly
documented.
(g) Ongoing educator preparation program support for
initial certification of teachers. Supervision of each candidate shall
be conducted with the structured guidance and regular ongoing support
of an experienced educator who has been trained as a field supervisor.
Supervision provided on or after September 1, 2017, must be provided
by a field supervisor who has completed TEA-approved observation training.
The initial contact, which may be made by telephone, email, or other
electronic communication, with the assigned candidate must occur within
the first three weeks of assignment. For each formal observation,
whether in-person or virtual, the field supervisor shall participate
in an individualized pre-observation conference with the candidate,
document educational practices observed; provide written feedback
through an individualized, synchronous, and interactive post-observation
conference with the candidate; and provide a copy of the written feedback
to the candidate's cooperating teacher or mentor. Neither the pre-observation
conference nor the post-observation conference need to be onsite.
For candidates participating in an internship, the field supervisor
shall provide a copy of the written feedback to the candidate's supervising
campus administrator. Formal observations by the field supervisor
conducted through collaboration with school or district personnel
can be used to meet the requirements of this subsection. Informal
observations and coaching shall be provided by the field supervisor
as appropriate. In a clinical teaching experience, the field supervisor
shall collaborate with the candidate and cooperating teacher throughout
the clinical teaching experience. For an internship, the field supervisor
shall collaborate with the candidate, mentor, and supervising campus
administrator throughout the internship.
(1) Each formal in-person observation must be at least
45 minutes in duration, must be conducted by the field supervisor,
and must be on the candidate's site in a face-to-face setting.
(2) Each formal virtual observation must be:
(A) at least 45 minutes in length;
(B) conducted by the field supervisor;
(C) followed by a post-observation conference within
72 hours of the educational activity; and
(D) conducted through use of an unedited electronic
transmission, video, or technology-based method.
(3) An EPP must provide the first formal observation
within the first third of all clinical teaching assignments and the
first six weeks of all internship assignments.
(4) For an internship under an intern certificate or
an additional internship described in subsection (e)(2)(B)(v)(I) of
this section:
(A) an EPP must provide a minimum of three formal observations
during the first half of the internship and a minimum of two formal
observations during the last half of the internship; and
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