N.D. Admin Code 67-11-05-05 - Credential standards

1. School counselor credential standards for the SC03 credential.

The counselor must have a master's degree in counseling, education, or a related human service field and the following graduate core counseling coursework content from a state-approved school counseling program listed below:

a. Elementary school counseling;

b. Secondary school counseling;

c. Supervised school counseling internship consisting of a minimum of four hundred fifty contact hours of which at least one hundred fifty contact hours are at both the elementary and secondary level;

d. Counseling program management;

e. Counseling theories;

f. Assessment techniques;

g. Group counseling;

h. Career counseling and assessment;

i. Social and multicultural counseling;

j. Ethics and law; and

k. Counseling techniques.

2. Counselor designate credential standards CD16. The counselor designate must:

a. Hold an educator's professional license issued by the education standards and practices board in accordance with North Dakota Century Code sections 15.1-13-08 and 15.1-13-10 and North Dakota Administrative Code title 67.1; and

b. Have completed a minimum of sixteen semester hours of graduate core counseling courses from a state-approved school counseling program.

Notes

N.D. Admin Code 67-11-05-05

Effective February 1, 2000; amended effective May 16, 2000; November 1, 2002; January 1, 2010.

General Authority: NDCC 15.1-02-04, 15.1-02-11, 28-32-02

Law Implemented: NDCC 15.1-02-04, 15.1-02-11, 15.1-13-23