(For teachers who have not passed an Early Childhood Education or Elementary Education Subject Area Test)
Name: ______________________________________________ Teacher Number: ___________________ Core Academic Subject Area: __________________________________________
(Column 1)
Coursework in the Core Academic
Subject Area for Early Childhood
and Elementary on Official
Transcript
(Column 2)
Years of Satisfactory
Teaching Experience in an
Accredited School
(Column 3)
Service in the
Content area
(Column 4)
Legislative Authorized
Academic Institutes*
or Professional Development
(Column 5)
Achievement of
Students Taught
(Optional)
(Column 6)
National Board
Certification
Must be content-specific
to core academic
subject area
Semester hours of coursework with
a grade of "C" or better in
- English
- Reading/Language Arts
- Mathematics
- Science
- Foreign Language
- Social Studies
- Art
- Music
An EDUC/CIED or any other
education prefix is not acceptable
except for reading hours.
Credits earned using the College-
Level Examination Program
(CLEP) are acceptable provided
they are reflected on the official
transcript.
Also
Semester hours of content
coursework taught in an institution
of higher education are acceptable
Must be employed as a full-
time teacher or special
education teacher, teaching
the core academic subjects
any portion of the day
including co-teaching
Rationale:
A. State-mandated
professional development,
1981
B. State-mandated uniform
teacher evaluation system,
1986
C. State implemented Priority
Academic Student Skills
(PASS) objectives, 1993
Must be content-specific to core
academic subject area
Served as a:
- Department chair/team leader in a
content area
- Mentor teacher in a content area
- Cooperating teacher for intern/student
teacher in a content area
- Academic club sponsor
- Academic judge
- Membership in a regional, state, or
national professional content organization
- Officer in a regional, state, or national
professional content organization
- Committee member on a local, state, or
national committee to develop, select,
evaluate, or validate content standards,
curriculum, or assessments. Example:
Curriculum Access Resource Guide
(CARG)
- Other (provide documentation)
Must be content-specific to core
academic subject area
(one point per clock hour)
- Professional Development
Institute - Math = 30 points*
- Professional Development
Institute - Science = 30 points*
Professional development
1 point per clock hour
- Algebra for All (College Board
Model)
- Pre AP/AP training in subject area
or
- Professional development related
to Priority Academic Student
Skills (PASS) in core academic
subject taught
- Teacher to Teacher Initiative
- Payne Education Center Institute
- Voyager University
Must be content-specific
to core academic
subject area
- Documented increase in
student test scores
- Competed in student
academic competition
National Board
Certification in
Special Education
- National Board
Certification in
“Early Childhood
through Young
Adulthood
Exceptional Needs
Specialist” = 30 points
• 4 points per semester hour earned
or taught
A. Fall 1981 - Spring 1986
1 point per year
B. Fall 1986 - Spring 1993
2 points per year
C. Fall 1993 – To present
3 points per year
• 10 points for any one item.
• 20 points for two or more items.
• ____ points Math PDI
• ____ points Science PDI
• ____ points Algebra for All
• ____ points AP training
• ____ points per Professional
Development clock hour
• 10 points for any one
item.
• 20 points for two or
more items.
• 30 points National
Board
# Hours: ____ X 4 = _____
A. B. C.
Institutes: _____________
Prof. Dev. Hours: _____________
TOTAL Points:
TOTAL Points:
TOTAL Points:
TOTAL Points:
TOTAL Points:
HOUSSE options provided by the Oklahoma State Department of Education to help schools comply with the federal mandates of No Child Left Behind.
* Teacher of Record = Teacher who assigns grades for students
100 Points = Highly Qualified
Total of columns 1-6: __________
EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION (Grades PK-3) AND ELEMENTARY EDUCATION (Grades 1-8)
Oklahoma's High Objective Uniform State Standard of Evaluation (HOUSSE) Checksheet for Demonstrating Subject Competency
100 Points = Highly Qualified
IN
OKLAHOMA
IF
NATIONAL
BOARD
CERTIFIED
IN CORE
ACADEMIC
SUBJECT
TAUGHT
YOU
ARE
HIGHLY
QUALIFIED
STOP HERE
100 Points
Experience:
AND/OR
AND/OR
AND/OR
Certification
Maximum 20 points.
(Documentation required.)
Maximum 20 points.
(Documentation required.)
Maximum 30 points.
AND/OR
AND/OR
(Documentation required.)
Maximum 30 points.
