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Highly Qualified Special
Education Teachers
November 2007
Krista D. Ried, Teacher Quality Coordinator
Office of Professional Preparation Services
www.michigan.gov/teachercert
Highly Qualified Special Education Teachers
SECONDARY Special Education Teachers
Co-teaches or
facilitates instruction
Provides DIRECT
instruction
Not required to be HQT
Must be HQT
Students tested by alternate achievement standards
Teacher must meet the same definition of HQT as elementary teachers
– Elementary Education MTTC
Students tested with MEAP/MME
Use one of the HOUSSE options or test
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Secondary means…
• 9-12 special education classrooms
 regardless of setting, self-contained or
departmentalized
• 6-8 special education classrooms
 departmentalized
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Highly Qualified Special Education Teachers
SECONDARY Special Education Teachers
Co-teaches or
facilitates instruction
Provides DIRECT
instruction
Not required to be HQT
Must be HQT
Students tested by alternate achievement standards
Teacher must meet the same definition of HQT as elementary teachers
– Elementary Education MTTC
Students tested with MEAP/MME
Use one of the HOUSSE options or test
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Highly Qualified Special Education Teachers
“alternate
achievement
standards”
=
Mi-Access
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Highly Qualified Special Education Teachers
SECONDARY Special Education Teachers
Co-teaches or
facilitates instruction
Provides DIRECT
instruction
Not required to be HQT
Must be HQT
Students tested by alternate achievement standards
Teacher must meet the same definition of HQT as elementary teachers
– Elementary Education MTTC
Students tested with MEAP/MME
Use one of the HOUSSE options, major (or equivalent) or test
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Documentation Change!
Teachers certified prior to 1998 SHOULD be able to utilize
HOUSSE option #1
• Why 1998?
• 9 years is the maximum amount of time a
teacher can work on a Provisional certificate
without having earned the total of 18 semester
credit hours necessary for either the SECOND
PROVISIONAL RENEWAL or the
PROFESSIONAL certificate.
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HOUSSE OptionsNote: Three years of experience previously
required has been retracted
1. have completed, after receiving the Michigan
Provisional teaching certificate, a minimum
of 18 semester hours in a core academic
subject program of study or towards a
master’s or higher degree that supports the
teaching of the core academic subject
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Masters Degrees
(HOUSSE #1):
March 2004 Flexibility Update
• Master of Arts in Teaching
• Master of Arts in Elementary
Education
• Master of Arts in Secondary
Education
• Master of Arts in Curriculum &
Instruction
• Master of Arts in Educational
Technology
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Masters degrees that cannot be
used to verify HQT status, as a
“blanket statement”:
• Masters in Special Education (per Dr. Hughes January
2005 letter stating “in and of itself”)
• Masters in Educational Leadership/Administration
• Masters in Educational Psychology
• Masters in Psychology
• Masters in Counseling
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Highly Qualified Special Education Teachers
18 Hour Planned Program (HOUSSE #1):
• content related
• not necessarily content specific
Examples –
•Methods of Teaching Math
•Reading in the Content Areas
•Integrating Technology (content related)
•Strategies for Instructing Students with Learning Disabilities
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HOUSSE Options –
2. Have completed an individual
professional development plan of 90
clock hours of professional
development or 6 semester hours of
coursework in the specific content
area within the last five years
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HOUSSE Options –
3. Demonstrated competence, as
outlined in a local performance
assessment of the employing district
or school such as a portfolio
– Multi-subject portfolio for special education
teachers is available on our website
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HOUSSE Option #3 Components:
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Years of Teaching Experience
College Level Course Work
Content Specific Professional
Development Activities
Service to the Profession in the
Content Area
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Highly Qualified Special Education Teachers
All teachers• Demonstrate competence across ALL the
core academic subject areas by utilizing
one of the HOUSSE options
Brand NEW teachers• Recommended that they take at least one
of the “core four” MTTCs along with the
Elementary Education MTTC
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Questions?
Krista D. Ried
Teacher Quality Coordinator
[email protected] or 517-373-0699
www.michigan.gov/teachercert
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