New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 6 - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION
Chapter 61 - SCHOOL PERSONNEL - SPECIFIC LICENSURE REQUIREMENTS FOR INSTRUCTORS
Part 3 - LICENSURE IN MIDDLE LEVEL EDUCATION, GRADES 5-9
Section 6.61.3.7 - DEFINITIONS
Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 6, March 26, 2024
A. "Advisory" - means a middle level arrangement intended to insure that each student is part of a small peer group with an adult advisor or mentor where communication within the group is open and non-threatening.
B. "Early adolescence" - means the developmental period that encompasses ages 10 through 15, or grades 5 - 9.
C. "Integrative curriculum" - means a curriculum model which coordinates or blends the interests of the learner into a unified whole, utilizing a variety of disciplines for investigating a central question.
D. "Interdisciplinary curriculum" - means a curriculum model designed to incorporate knowledge from two or more academic, scientific, or artistic disciplines.
E. "License" - means the professional certificate or credential which is issued upon completion of specified requirements and which designates the grade level(s) at which the holder is authorized to teach or administer.
F. "Middle level" - means grades 5 - 9.
G. "National board for professional teaching standards" - means a nonprofit, nongovernmental organization which operates a voluntary assessment system to grant national teacher certification to persons who meet an established set of national standards.
H. "Young adolescent" - means a student in grades 5 - 9.
I. "Core academic subjects" means English, language arts, reading, mathematics, science, modern and classical languages, except the modern and classical Native American languages and cultures of New Mexico tribes or pueblos, the arts, including music and visual arts, and social studies, which includes civics, government, economics, history, and geography.
J. "A highly qualified beginning middle level teacher" under this rule means a teacher who is fully qualified to teach the core academic subjects in grades 5-9, is new to the profession, has pursued a standard path to licensure, and:
