Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education

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Title 5 - DEPARTMENT OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION
Division 50 - Division of School Improvement
Chapter 340 - Supervision of Instruction

5 CSR 50-340.100 Approval of Utilizing Courses Delivered Primarily Through Electronic Media

PURPOSE: This rule establishes standards and procedures for approving and implementing courses delivered primarily through electronic media and monitored by teachers who are certificated but not fully qualified to teach the courses without the support of electronic media.

(1) Courses delivered primarily through electronic media may be offered by school districts and counted toward meeting the curriculum standards and state minimum graduation requirements if approved and implemented in accordance with this rule.

(2) The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education will accept applications for approval of electronically delivered courses submitted by school districts, developers of courses and sponsors of courses. Each application must be submitted by dates and on forms specified by the department. Each application for approval of a course must show that the course meets the following criteria. The course--

(A) Has been developed on the basis of clearly stated learner outcomes or objectives;

(B) Is logically organized and developmentally suitable for the grade level at which it is intended to be used;

(C) Includes teaching strategies and resource materials which are educationally sound, address a variety of learning modalities and are consistent with the learning styles of the age group for which intended;

(D) Includes both formative and summative tests which are closely aligned with stated learner outcomes or objectives and provides for frequent feedback to students;

(E) Has been demonstrated to be effective in achieving stated learner outcomes;

(F) Has been reviewed by subject matter experts for content validity and objectiveness of presentation;

(G) Meets high standards of quality in production and presentation; and

(H) Includes instructional and technical inservice education for the local classroom teacher.

(3) The department will empanel a committee of curriculum specialists and teachers to review the course, judge it against the criteria in section (2) and make a recommendation to the department. The department will notify the applicant and all public schools of its decision.

(4) Any school district may apply for permission to use an approved course by submitting an application in a form and by a date specified by the department annually. Each application for permission to use an approved course must include enough information to permit the department to determine that--

(A) The local board of education has approved implementing the course;

(B) Each electronically delivered course will be under the direct supervision of a teacher holding a valid Missouri teaching certificate and that the teacher has academic preparation as determined by the department as a result of its review of the approved course, recommendations of the developer or sponsor of the course and the content of related inservice education;

(C) The teacher will participate in instructional and technical inservice education developed and made available by the developer or sponsor of the approved course;

(D) The local district will provide and maintain the equipment and other learning resources prescribed by the developer of the course;

(E) The district will implement the course in a manner which will give students full advantage of the course, including live interactive broadcasts if these broadcasts are essential to the course; and

(F) The district will continuously monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of the course.

(5) Department staff members will review all applications, give applicant school districts an opportunity to correct any deficiencies and notify the districts of approval or disapproval to use the course.

(6) The commissioner of education or a designee has the authority to waive this rule when the course is offered simultaneously at various school sites through two (2)-way interactive video and is taught by a teacher properly certificated in the subject area.

AUTHORITY: section 161.092, RSMo (1994).* Original rule filed Sept. 25, 1987, effective Jan. 29, 1988. Amended: Filed Sept. 27, 1995, effective March 30, 1996.

*Original authority 1963, amended 1973