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Section C: Teacher Requirements
C.1) Who teaches a college course for dual credit?
Dual credit teachers must be regularly employed faculty members of the college or must meet the same
standards, including minimal requirements of the regional accrediting association (listed in A.6
), and approval
procedures used by the college to select faculty responsible for teaching the same courses to non‐high school
students at the college (
TAC §4.85 (e)).
C.2) What certifications must a teacher have to teach a course for dual credit?
When districts partner with community colleges and universities to offer dual credit courses, the college
faculty must meet teacher certification requirements that are set by the regional accrediting association (listed
in A.6
) and the community college and university. College faculty teaching dual credit courses are not required
to obtain certification through the State Board for Educator Certification.
C.3) Are college faculty who teach courses for dual credit subject to fingerprinting requirements under Texas
Education Code §22.0834, Criminal History Record Information Review of Certain Contract Employees?
Local school districts determine their own policies regarding criminal history requirements for contract
employees, subject to minimum standards of TEC §22.0834
which requires criminal history reviews of contract
employees who have direct contact with students. TAC §153.1101 provides some guidance as to the minimum
requirements of TEC §22.0834. Pursuant to those rules, school districts should consider whether contract
employees have the opportunity for unsupervised contact with students, if they do, fingerprinting and a
review of criminal history records with be conducted.
Section D: Course Requirements
D.1) Can high school credit be awarded for any college course?
No, it is the responsibility of the institutions entering a dual credit partnership to ensure the following
requirements are met to award high school credit for successful completion of a college course. Courses
offered for dual credit by public, two‐year, associate‐degree‐granting institutions must be identified as college‐
level academic courses in the current edition of the THECB’s
Lower Division Academic Course Guide Manual
(ACGM) or as college‐level technical education courses in the current edition of the board’s Workforce
Education Course Manual (WECM). Courses offered for dual credit by public universities must be in the
approved undergraduate core course inventory of that university. Public institutions of higher education may
not offer remedial or developmental courses for dual credit.
Courses offered for dual credit must provide instruction that ensures mastery of the TEKS for the appropriate
high school course and go beyond or into greater depth than the TEKS (TAC §4.85
).
D.2) What courses are available to take for dual credit?
Courses offered for dual credit by public institutions of higher education must be contained in the
core
curriculum of the institution providing the credit, career and technical education courses, or foreign language
courses (TAC §4.85). Dual credit courses that are completed as part of an approved early college education
program under TEC 29.908 or as part of an early college program defined in TAC Chapter 4, Subchapter D,
must be identified as college‐level academic courses in the current edition of the THECB’s Lower Division
Academic Course Guide Manual (ACGM), as college‐level technical education courses in the current edition of
the board’s Workforce Education Course Manual (WECM), or in a university’s approved undergraduate core
courses. Public colleges may not offer remedial or developmental courses for dual credit.