No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB)
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Field Memo
#05-2003
ADDENDUM August 2004
Cover Letter
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part B: Teachers Who May Want to Use the
HOUSSE
Part C: New York State’s Definition of the
HOUSSE
Part D: Accountability and Records
Appendix D
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Part B
Teachers Who May Want to Use the HOUSSE
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Must teachers who have already
passed a HOUSSE be re-evaluated using the updated rubrics?
No. The updated rubrics give more options to teachers who are not yet highly
qualified for all their teaching assignments in core academic subjects.
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How does the HOUSSE apply to
teachers of multiple core academic subjects?
In a March 31, 2004 letter that the U.S. Secretary of Education sent to
Chief State School Officers, the Secretary said that teachers of multiple
core academic subjects could use a multi-subject HOUSSE to demonstrate their
subject matter competency for each subject they teach. Subsequently, USDOE
staff provided clarification of the features of a multi-subject HOUSSE. It
appears that New York’s existing HOUSSE, including the updates to Appendix D
that appear in this Addendum, has all the flexibility that the Secretary
intended for teachers of multiple core academic subjects. This flexibility
includes the following features.
- Teachers of multiple core academic subjects who must use the
“middle/secondary” definition of “highly qualified” may use the rubric in
Appendix D - Part 2 as many times as needed during the same HOUSSE
evaluation session, once for each core academic subject they teach. They
are not required to have separate HOUSSE evaluation sessions for each
subject that they teach.
- Teachers of multiple core academic subjects who must use the
“middle/secondary” definition of “highly qualified” and who have teaching
experience in more than one core academic subject may use the same year of
experience to earn experience points for more than one subject. For
example, a teacher could earn 10 points for English and 10 points for math
if the teacher had only one year of teaching experience prior to school
year 1998-1999 teaching both English and math.
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