FL H0921

State Board of Education must adopt rules establishing uniform core curricula for all state-approved teacher preparation programs, including foundations in reading literacy, computational skills, classroom management, school safety, professional ethics, educational law, and data analysis.

Teacher preparation program students must assist teachers with low-performing readers in public elementary schools as part of preservice field experience courses, internships, or student teaching assignments at the elementary level.

Implementation must not require additional time-to-degree for teacher preparation programs and may be phased in by replacing non-mandated pedagogy courses with required courses and assignments.

Effective date is July 1, 2010.