Virginia Administrative Code
Title 8 - EDUCATION
Agency 20 - STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION
Chapter 23 - LICENSURE REGULATIONS FOR SCHOOL PERSONNEL
Part VI - Licensure Regulations Governing Support Personnel
Section 8VAC20-23-650 - Mathematics specialist for elementary and middle education
Universal Citation: 8 VA Admin Code 20-23-650
Current through Register Vol. 40, No. 16, March 25, 2024
Endorsement requirements. The candidate shall have:
1. Completed at least three years of successful, full-time teaching experience in a public or accredited nonpublic school in which the teaching of mathematics was an important responsibility;
2. A Virginia license with a Mathematics - algebra I (add-on) or mathematics (secondary) teaching endorsement (6-12); and
3. Either:
a. Graduated from a graduate-level
approved mathematics specialist elementary and middle education preparation
program - master's degree from a regionally accredited college or university
required; or
b. Completed a
graduate- level program in mathematics, mathematics education, or related
education field - master's degree from a regionally accredited college or
university required - with at least 21 semester hours of undergraduate or
graduate mathematics coursework distributed in the following areas;
(i) number and operations;
(ii) rational numbers;
(iii) geometry and measurement;
(iv) probability and statistics;
(v) algebra and functions; and
(vi) at least nine semester hours of graduate
coursework pertaining to mathematics education in mathematics instructional
leadership, evaluation of mathematics curriculum and instruction, mathematical
learning theory, and student assessment for mathematics.
Statutory Authority: §§ 22.1-298.1 and 22.1-299 of the Code of Virginia.
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