Administrators
Highly Qualified Teachers
Grade Level Content Expectations
http://www.michigan.gov/mde/0,1607,7-140--87065--L,%2000.html
Report Cards issued annually for each
school and district by the Michigan
Department of Education.
Resources and Best Practices For
Implementing No Child Left Behind,
American Association of School
Administrators
http://www.aasa.org/NCLB/tools.htm
Paraprofessional Training and Testing
Certain paraprofessionals are required to
be certified, as a result of the No Child
Left Behind (NCLB) legislation. A
helpful worksheet to determine if a
paraprofessional needs to be certified can
be found at
http://www.michigan.gov/documents/Michigan_Qualified_Paraprofessionals_Worksheet_83923_7.doc
The following link on the Michigan
Department of Education has information on
the requirements and how one can become
certified.
http://www.michigan.gov/mde/0,1607,7-140-28815-85765--,00.html
For answers to your questions go to the
Michigan Department of Education’s
Frequently Asked Questions on
paraprofessionals
http://www.ets.org/portal/site/ets/menuitem.1488512ecfd5b8849a77b13bc3921509/
Assessment Requirements
The Michigan Educational Assessment
System (MEAS) was approved by the State
Board of Education in October 2001. This
system includes a timeline for assessing
all students, including those with
special needs. The MEAS includes four
ways for students to be assessed. The
first way is with the Michigan Education
Assessment Program (MEAP) is given at
grade 4 and 11 in English Language Arts
(ELA) and Mathematics. Students in grade
7 take the ELA test and grade 8 students
take the mathematics assessment.
However, No Child Left Behind (NCLB)
requires each state to administer
assessments in grades 1-8 by the end of
the 2005-06 school year.
Supplemental Services
What are supplemental educational
services?
The U.S. Department of Education defines
supplemental services as tutoring or
other extra education services that
provide extra academic assistance to
students outside the regular school day.
The No Child Left Behind Act states that
these services must be high quality,
research based, and specifically
designed to increase the academic
achievement of eligible children.
For more information...
NAEP
The National Assessment of
Educational Progress (NAEP), also known
as "the Nation's Report Card," is the
only nationally representative and
continuing assessment of what America's
students know and can do in various
subject areas. Since 1969, assessments
have been conducted periodically in
reading, mathematics, science, writing,
U.S. history, civics, geography, and the
arts.
Under the current structure, the
Commissioner of Education Statistics,
who heads the National Center for
Education Statistics in the U.S.
Department of Education, is responsible
by law for carrying out the NAEP
project. The National Assessment
Governing Board (NAGB), appointed by the
Secretary of Education but independent
of the Department, sets policy for NAEP
and is responsible for developing the
framework and test specifications that
serve as the blueprint for the
assessments. NAGB is a bipartisan group
whose members include governors, state
legislators, local and state school
officials, educators, business
representatives, and members of the
general public. Congress created the
26-member Governing Board in 1988.
NAEP does not provide scores for
individual students or schools; instead,
it offers results regarding
subject-matter achievement,
instructional experiences, and school
environment for populations of students
(e.g., fourth-graders) and subgroups of
those populations (e.g., female
students, Hispanic students). NAEP
results are based on a sample of student
populations of interest.
For more information...
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