§ 6-16-1203 - Teacher skills and training.
6-16-1203. Teacher skills and training.
(a) (1) A teacher of an Advanced Placement course must obtain appropriate training.
(2) The State Board of Education shall establish clear, specific, and challenging training guidelines that require teachers of College Board advanced placement courses and teachers of pre-Advanced Placement courses to obtain College Board sponsored or endorsed training.
(3) The training may include vertical team training.
(b) An instructor of an endorsed concurrent enrollment course shall have:
(1) (A) No less than a master's degree that includes at least eighteen (18) hours of completed course work in the subject area of the endorsed concurrent enrollment course.
(B) The instructor's credentials shall be approved by the academic unit or chief academic officer of the institution of higher education offering the endorsed concurrent enrollment course; and
(2) The relevant credentials and experience necessary to teach from the syllabus approved by the institution of higher education granting the course credit.