Maine: College and Career Policies

Maine has standards in 7 different content standards which include career and education development, English language arts, health education and physical education, mathematics, science and technology, social studies, visual and performing arts, and world languages.

Maine has standards in 7 different content standards which include career and education development, English language arts, health education and physical education, mathematics, science and technology, social studies, visual and performing arts, and world languages.

The Department of Education has full authority to adopt assessments per state law but must collaborate with the State Board of Education.

The Maine Department of Education Office of Career and Technical Education is responsible for the State’s oversight and support for the delivery of all career and technical education provided in Maine. This includes the management of the federal Carl D. Perkins grant and the accountability measures that must be reached to receive the funding.

Passed by legislature, gives power to the State Board to adopt educator evaluation system

Maine developed the Model Teacher Performance Evaluation and Professional Growth (T- PEPG) in order to guide LEAs in the teacher evaluation process. LEAs may adopt the model system and use it as their own, modify it in some way, or use it to guide in the development in it's own system.

The Maine State Board of Education oversees the teacher certification process and dictates the requirements needed in order to become certified within the state.

In order to become a certified teacher in Maine, an applicant must hold a bachelor's degree, have completed an approved teacher preparation program, and pass a content examination.

The State Board of Education has the authority to set approval standards and approve educator preparation programs.

Chapter 114 outlines the standards and procedures for the review and approval of educational personnel preparation programs in Maine.

The Maine Learning Results were most recently updated in 2011 to include Common Core as the college and career readiness standards for English language arts and math, better preparing our students for success in college, career and civic life by creating deeper, more rigorous and clearer expectations for learning.

Starting in the spring of 2015, Maine will use the Maine Educational Assessment in Mathematics and English Language Arts/Literacy, developed by the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, as its annual statewide assessment.

Additionally, Maine requires 1 year of fine arts.