584-070-0310 Limited Student Service License
Summary of Proposed Action: Updates
professional development requirements to align with changes the Commission made
to the continuing professional development rules in 2012. Makes other
housekeeping changes.
Background:
In 2012, the Commission eliminated the
requirement that all educators develop a “professional development plan” in
favor of the direction that districts were taking relative to the new educator
evaluation processes – e.g., customized professional development specific to
each educator. This amendment updates the language to align with those changes
by eliminating references to a “professional development plan.”
Number of Licenses: There
are currently 40 active Limited
Student Services licenses.
Fiscal Impact: N/A
Copy of Proposed Rule
584-070-0310
Limited Student Service
License
(1) Upon filing a correct and
complete application in form and manner prescribed by the Commission, a qualified applicant may be granted a Limited Student
Service License. This license, issued for three years and renewable, is valid
at any authorization level and designated for a specialized type of direct
service to students for which the Commission at its discretion may not require a school counselor, or school psychologist or school social worker license. It is
not valid for substitution substitute
teaching of any kind.
(2) To be eligible for a Limited
Student Service License the applicant must:
(a) Have a bachelor’s degree or
higher from a regionally accredited institution in the United States, or the
foreign equivalent of such degree approved by the Commission, together with an
equally valid master’s degree or other specialized preparation related to the
intended service role and ordinarily equivalent to one academic year of
graduate study. Awarding of a higher degree in the arts and sciences or an
advanced degree in the professions from a regionally accredited institution in
the United States validates a non-regionally accredited bachelor’s degree for
licensure.
(b) Obtain a passing score on a
Commission-approved test of knowledge of U.S. and Oregon civil rights and professional
ethics; and
(c) Furnish fingerprints in the
manner prescribed by the Commission and provide satisfactory responses to the
character questions contained in the Commission’s licensure application. (See
also, OAR 584-036-0062 for Criminal Records Check Requirement.)
(3) The Limited Student Service
License is restricted to use within a district that has applied for it jointly
with the applicant, whose qualifications and job description are subject to cCommission approval. Upon application, the co-applicant
district must describe its particular need in relation to the co-applicant
specialist’s qualifications summarized on a submitted resume, agree to provide
a mentor during the first year of the assignment, and attest that the role to
be filled has been structured so as not to require a school counselor, school psychologist, or school social worker license.
(4) The holder of a Limited
Student Service License shall use only the title specifically approved by the
Commission and shall not use any unapproved title or imply any unapproved function
duties related to serving children.
Titles such as “advisor” or “student service specialist” or “student assistance
specialist” will more readily be approved. The following additional provisos apply:
(a) No holder of a limited student service license shall use a
title containing words derived from “psychology” nor claim to be a psychologist
or to render psychological services without obtaining a school psychologist
license from the Commission unless
licensed as a psychologist or psychologist associate by the Board of
Psychologist Examiners. Under ORS 675.990(1)(b), a
violation of this subsection is a Class A misdemeanor; and[.]
(b) The Commission at its
discretion may consider a title indicating a therapeutic student service role
like counseling or social work, for a specialist who has a corresponding
master’s or doctor’s degree, if the applicant is licensed by the Board of
Licensed Professional Counselors and Therapists or the Board of Licensed Social Workers, respectively, and is
demonstrably prevented from gaining admission to a graduate program in school
counseling, school psychology or school
social work. and therefore cannot
reasonably be required to apply for a non-renewable transitional license.
(c) The Commission will ordinarily approve an
appropriate social work title for an applicant licensed by the Board of
Clinical Social Workers.
(5) To be eligible for renewal
of the Limited Student Service License The Limited Student Service License is renewable under the following
circumstances:
(a) Upon first renewal, an
applicant must obtain a passing score as currently specified by the cCommission on a test of basic verbal and computational
skills, unless the applicant held an Oregon educator license before 1985 or has
a regionally accredited master’s degree; and
(b) Upon completion of a
professional development requirements pursuant to OAR 584, Division 90.
Stat. Auth.: ORS 342
Stats. Implemented: ORS 342.120—342.430; 342.455 - 342.495; 342.533
Hist.: TSPC 4-1999, f. & cert. ef. 8-2-99; TSPC
9-1999, f. & cert. ef. 11-22-99; TSPC 7-2008, f.
& cert. ef. 8-20-08; TSPC 3-2009(Temp), f. &
cert. ef. 5-15-09 thru 11-11-09; Administrative
correction 11-19-09; TSPC 8-2009, f. & cert. ef.
12-15-09; TSPC 5-2010(Temp), f. & cert. ef.
8-13-10 thru 12-31-10; TSPC 9-2010, f. 12-15-10, cert. ef.
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