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44259.1
. (a) (1) An integrated program of professional preparation
shall enable candidates for teaching credentials to engage in
professional preparation, concurrently with subject matter
preparation, while completing baccalaureate degrees at regionally
accredited postsecondary institutions. An integrated program shall
provide opportunities for candidates to complete intensive field
experiences in public elementary and secondary schools early in the
undergraduate sequence. The development and implementation of an
integrated program shall be based on intensive collaboration among
subject matter departments and education units within postsecondary
institutions and local public elementary and secondary school
districts.
(2) The commission shall encourage postsecondary institutions to
offer integrated programs of professional preparation that follow the
guidelines developed pursuant to this section. In approving
integrated programs, the commission shall not compromise or reduce
its standards of subject matter preparation pursuant to Article 6
(commencing with Section 44310) or its standards of professional
preparation pursuant to paragraph (3) of subdivision (b) of Section
44259.
(b) (1) Commencing with the 2005-06 school year, an integrated
program offered by the California State University shall be designed
to concurrently lead to a preliminary multiple subject or single
subject teaching credential, and a baccalaureate degree.
Recommendation for each shall be contingent upon satisfactory
completion of the requirements for each.
(2) By July 1, 2004, the Chancellor of the California State
University, in consultation with California State University faculty
members, shall develop a framework defining appropriate balance for
an integrated program of general education, subject matter
preparation, and professional education courses, for both lower
division and upper division students, including an appropriate range
of units to be taken in professional education courses. In developing
the framework, the Chancellor of the California State University and
California State University faculty members shall consult with the
Academic Senate for the California Community Colleges on matters
related to the effective and efficient use of, and appropriate role
for, lower division coursework in an integrated program.
(c) (1) By January 1, 2005, the Chancellor of the California State
University and the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges
shall collaboratively ensure that both of the following occur:
(A) Lower division coursework completed by a community college
student transferring to a California State University integrated
program is articulated with the corresponding coursework of the
California State University.
(B) The articulated community college lower division coursework is
accepted as the equivalent to the coursework offered to students who
enter that integrated program as freshman students.
(2) Commencing with the 2005-06 school year, each campus of the
California State University shall invite the community colleges in
its region that send significant numbers of transfer students to that
campus to enter into articulation agreements. These articulation
agreements shall be based on a fully transferable education
curriculum that is developed pursuant to the framework developed
under paragraph (2) of subdivision (b). Approval of one or more of
the articulation agreements will enable the coursework of a community
college student to be accepted as the equivalent to the coursework
offered to students who enter that integrated program as freshman
students.
(d) A postbaccalaureate program of professional preparation shall
enable candidates for teaching credentials to commence and complete
professional preparation after they have completed baccalaureate
degrees at regionally accredited institutions. The development and
implementation of a postbaccalaureate program of professional
preparation shall be based on intensive collaboration among the
postsecondary institution and local public elementary and secondary
school districts.