[Counselors] Concurrent enrollment

[OSRHE EPAS PK-12 Counselor Discussion Board]

Guymon High, in accordance with ACE legislation and SB 290 session 2009,
shall govern the concurrent enrollment, dual credit, and EOI testing of any
Guymon High School student who wishes to participate in college classes
during his or her junior and/or senior year....
This is the beginning of the policy Guymon has on dual credit that had to
be implemented by state law. Here is another section taken from the policy
and law:
            The following higher education courses commonly taken through
      concurrent enrollment have been reviewed by the Oklahoma State
      Department of Education (OSDE) and approved for academic credit:

               College Algebra                   = 1 unit Algebra II

               General Biology                   = 1 unit Biology II

               General Botany                    = 1 unit Botany

                              Eng Comp I                         = 1/2 unit
Eng IV

                              Eng Comp II                        = 1/2 unit
Eng IV

                              Intro to Chemistry               = 1 unit
Chemistry

                              Chemistry I                          = 1 unit
Chemistry

                              Am. Hist early                      = 1/2
unit US Hist

                              Am. Hist late                        = 1/2
unit US Hist

                              Intro to Geography              = 1/2 unit
World Geog

                              Am. Fed. Govt.                    = 1/2 unit
Am. Government

                              Intro to Speech                    = 1/2 unit
Speech


              Courses not listed and for which academic credit is sought
may be

              submitted to OSDE for review of course curriculum alignment
with the

             Oklahoma Priority Academic Student Skills.


We actually allow classes worth 3 or fewer credits to be valued at 1/2 high
school credit and those valued at 4 or greater to have a value of 1 credit
at the high school. (This too is stated in the policy.) Our College Algebra
usually is counted as part of the required 4th year of math at Guymon High
since most students have taken Algebra II by the time they choose
concurrent.


The reason this law came into effect was because many schools were doing
their own thing with no standard: some schools refused to count concurrent
for any high school credit, some schools "over" counted things addressed in
the law by using AP exam credit in the junior year English as both English
3 credit for taking the course and English 4 credit for passing the test,
and still others were very random in handling concurrent and AP courses.
When students transferred from one Oklahoma school to another, they were
losing credits they thought they had and were being blocked from graduation
in other schools, therefor requiring summer school or attendance the next
year... To clean and clear it up, SB 290 session 2009, was written.





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-- 
Dana Martin, M.Ed.
11th & 12th Counselor
Guymon High School
PO Box 1307
2002 N. James
Guymon, OK 73942
(580) 338-4350
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