Okla. Admin. Code § 612:20-2-2
The following words and terms, when used in this Subchapter, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Administrator" means a member of the contracted administrative staff who devotes a majority of his/her time to service in an administrative or supervisory position.
"Career Teacher" means a teacher who has completed three (3) or more consecutive complete school years at OSB or OSD or who otherwise meets the definition of a career teacher as provided for in the Oklahoma School Code.
"Contracted administrative personnel or staff" means those employees hired under contract and qualified according to the requirements of the State Department of Education (where applicable) to serve primarily in an administrative or supervisory capacity pursuant to 10 O.S. § 1419(B).
"Contracted instructional personnel or staff" means Department employees hired under contract and qualified according to the requirements of the State Department of Education to serve in an instructional capacity pursuant to 10 O.S. § 1419(B).
"Dismissal" means the discontinuance of the service of an administrator or teacher during the term of a written contract.
"Entry-year teacher" means any certified or licensed teacher who is employed by a special school to serve as a classroom teacher under the guidance and assistance of a teacher consultant and an entry-year assistance committee.
"Nonreemployment" means the nonrenewal of an administrator's or teacher's contract upon expiration of the contract.
"Principal" means any person other than a superintendent of schools having an administrative certificate, and supervisory or administrative authority over any school or school building having two or more teachers. A teaching principal is a principal who devotes at least one-half the time school is in session to classroom teaching.
"Probationary Teacher" means a teacher who has completed fewer than three (3) or more consecutive complete school years at OSB or OSD or who otherwise meets the definition of a probationary teacher as provided for in the Oklahoma School Code.
"Special school(s)" means the Oklahoma School for the Blind and/or the Oklahoma School for the Deaf.
"Student teacher" means any student who is enrolled in an institution of higher learning approved by the State Board of Education for teacher training, and who is jointly assigned by such institution and the superintendent of the special school to perform practice teaching under the direction of a regularly employed and certified teacher.
"Teacher" means a duly certified or licensed person who is employed as a member of the contracted instructional staff. Teachers include classroom instructors, counselors, librarians or any other persons serving in any instructional capacity. For purposes of complying with state and federal laws which apportion money on the basis of teaching units or the number of teachers employed or qualified, all persons holding proper certificates or licenses and connected in any capacity with the instruction of students shall be designated as "teachers."
Okla. Admin. Code § 612:20-2-2