NY State Senate Bill S7001

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S7001 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Senate Education
Law Section:: Education

S7001 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to candidates for certificates in the classroom teaching service.

S7001 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

BILL NUMBER:S7001

TITLE OF BILL:  An act in relation to candidates for certificates in
the classroom teaching service

PURPOSE:

To make changes to the current timeline for new certification
requirements for teachers.

SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1. Provides that no teacher would be required to achieve
satisfactory levels of performance on the new edTPA portion of the New
York State teacher certification examinations until July 1, 2015.

For candidates who have not yet received an initial certificate for
teaching by April 30, 2014, these candidates would be required to
instead achieve satisfactory performance levels on either the
elementary or secondary Assessment of Teaching Skills-Written (ATS-W)
test, in addition to the Academic Literacy Skills Test (ALST), the
Education All Students (EAS) test and the Content Specialty Test (CST)
by July 1, 2015.

The bill would also provide that any candidate for a teaching
certificate that has already achieved a satisfactory level of the new

edTPA exam would be deemed to have met the requirements of the ATS-W
test. The State Education Department would be authorized and required
to take any necessary actions to establish new test dates for the
ATS-W exams.

Section 2. Provides that the act take effect immediately and shall be
deemed to have been in full force and effect on and after April 1,
2014.

JUSTIFICATION:

The edTPA is a complex performance assessment with multiple
components, including requiring videotaping of student teaching in
kindergarten-grade 12 classrooms. It has been argued that teaching
programs have not had enough time to make necessary changes to
programs to effectively prepare future teachers for the new exam. It
is important to ensure that our students pursuing a career in teaching
are adequately prepared to take new certification exams. It is unfair
to change certification requirements for teacher candidates who
entered teaching programs under a different set of requirements and
are now close to reaching certification. In addition, it could be
argued that there is no research or evidence to support that the edTPA
better identified quality teachers any better than existing
certification requirements already do.

One component of the edTPA requires videotaping portions of classroom
activity and there is a requirement for student teachers to acquire
permission from parents to include interaction with students as part
of the student teacher's submission. In view of the current concerns
raised by many parents around the privacy of their children, it is
believed that this aspect of the assessment will be extremely hard for


student teachers to complete. Additional time to alert parents to this
element is required and student teachers should not be delayed in
their certification due to this obstacle.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

New bill.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None.

EFFECTIVE DATE:

This act shall take effect immediately and shall be deemed to have
been in full force and effect on and after April 1, 2014.

S7001 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  7001

                            I N  S E N A T E

                             April 11, 2014
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen. LAVALLE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Education

AN ACT in relation to  candidates  for  certificates  in  the  classroom
  teaching service

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. 1. No candidate for a certificate in the classroom teaching
service shall be  required  to  have  achieved  satisfactory  levels  of
performance  on  the edTPA portion of the New York State teacher certif-
icate examinations until July 1, 2015.
  2. For candidates that have not received an initial certificate in the
classroom teaching service  by  April  30,  2014,  the  state  education
department shall require that such candidate achieve satisfactory levels
of  performance  on  the elementary and secondary assessment of teaching
skills-written  test;  academic  literary  skills  test;  educating  all
students  test;  and  the  content  specialty  test.  Provided  that the
requirements of this subdivision shall not apply after July 1, 2015.
  3. Any candidate for a certificate in the classroom  teaching  service
that has achieved a satisfactory level of performance on the edTPA shall
be  deemed  to have met the requirements of the elementary and secondary
assessment of teaching skills-written test pursuant to  subdivision  two
of this section.
  4.  The  state education department is authorized and required to take
all necessary actions to expeditiously establish new test dates for  the
elementary and secondary assessment of teaching skills-written test.
  S  2.  This  act  shall take effect immediately and shall be deemed to
have been in full force and effect on and after April 1, 2014.



 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD14591-04-4

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