(a) The requisite knowledge, understanding, skills, and dispositions for effective
practice related to all of the following:
(i) Utilizing research-based models, theories, and philosophies for teaching students
with an array of disabilities within different placements.
(ii) Assessing students with disabilities for identification and teaching.
(iii) Implementing accommodations and modifications for classroom, district, and
statewide assessments.
(iv) Using assistive technology devices to increase, maintain, or improve the capabilities
of students with impairments.
(v) Communicating, consulting, and collaborating with parents/guardians,
paraprofessionals, general educators, administrators, and human services personnel.
(vi) Developing, implementing, and evaluating individualized education programs.
(vii) Planning, organizing, scheduling, and conducting individualized education
program team meetings, including parental and student participation.
(viii) Preparing students with disabilities for transitions consisting of preschool to
elementary through post-secondary environments and employment.
(ix) Maintaining, releasing, and transferring student records according to district, state,
and federal rules and policies.
(x) Articulating the historical and legal bases regarding special education, such as the
concept of free appropriate public education, general least restrictive environment
requirements, and family education and privacy rights.
(b) Understanding issues of race, class, culture, religion, gender, orientation, and
language related to subdivision (a) of this subrule.
History: 1979 AC; 1980 AACS; 1983 AACS; 1987 AACS; 2002 AACS; 2005 AACS; 2013 AACS.
R 340.1782 Endorsed teachers of students
requirements.
with
disabilities; additional
Rule 82. An endorsed teacher of students with disabilities, in addition to meeting the
specific requirements in R 340.1786 to R 340.1788, R 340.1795 to R 340.1797, and R
340.1799 to R 340.1799c, shall comply with all of the following requirements:
(a) Possess a valid Michigan teacher's certificate.
(b) Possess a baccalaureate degree with a major in
area or have earned credit in course work equivalent to that required for a major.
(c) Possess an endorsement in special education that is valid in grades
a
specific special education
kindergarten through 12. Elementary or secondary endorsements in special education,
earned after September 1, 1990, shall be valid in grades kindergarten through 12.
(d) Have completed not less than 8 weeks of directed student teaching in the specific
area of impairment. Not less than a 180-hour practicum in the specific area of
impairment is required for each additional endorsement.
(e) Be recommended for a certificate or endorsement, or both, in a specific special
education area by an institution of higher education or the department signifying
verification of completion of
a
teacher education program for the specific special
education area, as approved by the state board of education.
(f) On the effective date of these rules, persons approved as special education
teachers under this rule, teacher consultants under R 340.1790, and teachers of
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