S.D. Admin. R. 24:28:01:01

Current through Register Vol. 51, page 67, December 16, 2024

Section 24:28:01:01 - Meaning of terms

Terms used in this article mean:

(1) "Administrator," an individual who completes an approved program for principals or school superintendents at an accredited institution or completes an alternative certification program and is issued a certificate;

(2) "Alternative certification," an alternative process of completing teacher or administrator certification requirements while simultaneously employed as a teacher or administrator in a public or department-accredited school;

(3) "Applicant," an individual applying for an initial or renewed educator certificate;

(4) "Approved program," courses and experiences requiring completion of a degree with a major or its equivalent, which meets the preparation standards of article 24:53, or an educational preparation program delivered by a regionally-accredited institution of higher education, which meets the preparation standards of another state's educational agency;

(5) "Assigned cooperating teacher," a certified teacher who is partnered with a student teacher during the student teacher's student teaching experience;

(6) "Associate degree," a minimum of forty-eight college credit hours from a regionally-accredited or state-approved institution;

(7) "Bachelor's degree," a postsecondary degree awarded to an individual after completion of undergraduate coursework approximating one hundred and twenty credits;

(8) "Board," the South Dakota Board of Education Standards;

(9) "Categorical special education endorsement," an endorsement that allows the certificate holder to perform services for students in one or more specified disability categories, but does not qualify the certificate holder to provide generalized special education services for all students;

(10) "CEO," a chief executive officer of a school or district;

(11) "Certificate," a recognition by the secretary of education that authorizes the holder to perform educational services;

(12) "Continuing education contact hour," one hour documented by participation in an educational professional development opportunity;

(13) "Credit," the equivalent of fifteen continuing education contact hours;

(14) "Department," the South Dakota Department of Education;

(15) "Department-accredited school," any public or private school, issued accreditation by the department pursuant to article 24:43;

(16) "Designated recommending official," the official from an accredited institution with approved education programs who is authorized to verify completion of preparation and recommend certification;

(17) "Dual credit course," university or postsecondary technical institute courses taught in high schools to eligible, enrolled students by university or postsecondary technical institute instructors, and offering the opportunity to receive both high school and postsecondary credit upon completion;

(18) "Education specialist," an individual who serves as a school counselor, school psychologist, school psychological examiner, curriculum director, special education director, mentor teacher, mentor school counselor, technology integrationist, or technology coordinator, and is issued a certificate;

(19) "Educator," a person employed by a school or school district in a position requiring a certificate;

(20) "Educator permit," a type of certificate that restricts the holder to the endorsement indicated on the certificate;

(21) "Endorsement," the content and subject areas in which the educator is certified;

(22) "Inactive certificate," a certificate issued to a certificate holder with a valid certificate, who is not acting as an educator and requests the certificate become inactive for a period of five years;

(23) "Leadership role," work experience in which an individual's assignment in the organization is designated as a position of authority with responsibility for regulating the relationships between and among people;

(24) "Long-term substitute," an individual acting as a teacher of record for:

(a) No more than forty-five cumulative school days in a vacant teaching position while a school district pursues a contract for a teacher; or

(b) More than forty-five cumulative school days when a teacher is on a temporary leave of absence, if: the teacher's leave of absence is granted pursuant to the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, 29 U.S.C. § 2601, et seq. as amended to March 18, 2020, by the school; or the individual has a valid or inactive teaching certificate;

(25) "Major in content," a minimum of twenty-seven semester hours of coursework, with a grade point average of 2.7 or higher, which count toward completion of the degree, not including remedial coursework, from a regionally-accredited institution of higher education, taken in a subject area as identified on an official transcript or verified by the institution of higher education from which the degree was received;

(26) "Mentor," an educator who provides support and assistance to other educators;

(27) "Military personnel and spouse," an applicant who holds a valid certificate issued by another state or the District of Columbia and is an active duty member of the armed forces of the United States or the spouse of an active duty member and is the subject of a military transfer to South Dakota;

(28) "Pedagogical knowledge," an understanding of learning, human development, professional ethics, motivational techniques, cultural and individual differences, instructional strategies, classroom management, and assessment strategies that impact the learner;

(29) "Preparation," the type of educational preparation an educator has completed to meet certification requirements;

(30) "Professional development plan," a plan submitted to the department by an applicant completing administrator alternative certification, describing how the applicant will demonstrate evidence of meeting requirements for alternative administrator certification;

(31) "Provisional certificate," a one-year certificate issued to an out-of-state educator in order for the educator to complete the course requirements for South Dakota Indian studies;

(32) "Reciprocal certification," the process by which the secretary recognizes an educator certificate issued by another state and issues an equivalent South Dakota certificate;

(33) "Regionally-accredited institution of higher education," a college or university accredited by the official accrediting agency of the state in which the institution is located, or accredited by an institutional accreditor recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA), a non-governmental agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education;

(34) "School partner," a preschool-through-twelfth-grade school that collaborates with any higher education institution in designing, developing, and implementing field experiences, clinical practice, delivery of instruction, and research;

(35) "Secretary," the secretary of the South Dakota Department of Education or the secretary's designee;

(36) "Self-contained," a classroom in which one teacher provides instruction in multiple subjects to the same students for the majority of the student's instructional day;

(37) "Specialized learning experience," an education-related learning experience that incorporates the applicant's occupational field and teaching area and is not obtained through academic coursework or continuing education;

(38) "State-designated content test," the assessment of content knowledge used to meet certification requirements with passing scores established by the board;

(39) "State-designated coursework," required coursework within a content area used to meet certification requirements, as specified by the department;

(40) "State-designated pedagogy test," the assessment of pedagogical knowledge used to meet certification requirements, with passing scores established by the board;

(41) "Student teacher," an individual who is completing an in-depth, direct teaching experience in a school setting conducted as a culminating, field-based experience for an educator preparation program;

(42) "Teach For America," a national teacher corps that recruits recent college graduates to commit two years to teach in low-income rural and urban communities;

(43) "Teacher," an individual who completes an approved teacher education program at an accredited institution or completes an alternative certification program, and is issued a certificate;

(44) "Teacher education program," an educational preparation program delivered by a regionally-accredited institution of higher education;

(45) "Teacher of record," a teacher who develops the lesson plans and delivers the instruction to students;

(46) "Temporary certificate," a one-year certificate issued to an applicant with an invalid educator certificate who requires one year to complete the renewal requirements for a valid certificate; and

(47) "Transcripted credit," graduate or undergraduate credit on a semester system, issued by a regionally-accredited institution of higher education and documented on an official transcript.

S.D. Admin. R. 24:28:01:01

43 SDR 175, effective 7/3/2017; 45 SDR 084, effective 12/19/2018; 47 SDR 068, effective 12/10/2020; 48 SDR 060, effective 12/7/2021; 49 SDR 104, effective 5/28/2023; 50 SDR 158, effective 7/3/2024

General Authority: SDCL 13-1-12.1, 13-42-3.

Law Implemented: SDCL 13-42-1 to 13-42-4, inclusive, 13-43-5, 13-43-5.1.