New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 6 - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION
Chapter 63 - SCHOOL PERSONNEL - LICENSURE REQUIREMENTS FOR ANCILLARY AND SUPPORT PERSONNEL
Part 5 - LICENSURE FOR SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGISTS, PRE K-12
Section 6.63.5.8 - REQUIREMENTS FOR LEVEL 1 SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGIST LICENSURE
Universal Citation: 6 NM Admin Code 6.63.5.8
Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 18, September 24, 2024
A level 1 school psychologist shall have documentation in their personnel file with the school district, local education agency, or school-related setting from a level 3 clinical supervising school psychologist who holds pre k-12 licensure pursuant to the provisions of this rule, and shall meet the following requirements:
A. a master's degree or educational specialist degree, or doctorate degree in school psychology from a regionally accredited college or university;
B. qualifications meeting Paragraph (1), (2), or (3):
(1) 60 graduate hours incorporating
the department-approved competencies in school psychology, which may be
completed as part of a master's or educational specialist degree program or in
addition to the master's degree, meeting the applicable program requirements as
follows:
(a) the 60 graduate hours awarded by
a New Mexico college or university must include a 1,200-hour internship
supervised by an appropriately licensed psychologist, 600 hours of which must
be in a school-related setting; psychological assessment, counseling, and other
psychological interventions with students with emotional disturbances shall
comprise a minimum of 300 hours of the internship; or
(b) the 60 graduate hours awarded by a
college or university outside New Mexico must be for a school psychology or
equivalent program accepted by the department and include an internship in a
school setting as described in Paragraph (1) of Subsection B of 6.63.5.8 NMAC;
or
(c) the 60 graduate hours as
described in Paragraph (1) of Subsection B of 6.63.5.8 NMAC, with documentation
of 1,200 hours within a two-year period of successful supervised experience in
one of the following areas:
(i) school
psychology;
(ii) psychological
assessment and counseling; and
(iii) other psychological interventions with
at least 600 hours in a school-related setting;
(2) a doctorate degree in psychology, that
includes 12 semester hours of child-focused course work in development,
assessment, intervention, and 600 hours of supervised experience in a
school-related setting; or
(3) a
valid psychologist or psychologist associate license issued by the New Mexico
board of psychologist examiners and that includes 12 semester hours of
child-focused course work in development, assessment, and intervention and 600
hours of supervised experience in a school-related setting; and
C. fulfill the requirements of Paragraph (1) or (2):
(1) the specialty area
examination of the praxis series exam in school psychology with at least a
score of 147; or
(2) hold an active
nationally certified school psychologist credential issued by the national
association of school psychologists.
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