PI 3, Wisconsin Licenses - Pupil Services

Note: Chapter PI 3 as it existed on June 30, 2004 was repealed effective July 1, 2004. See Chapter PI 34 for replacement rules.

Subchapter XI - Pupil Services

PI 3.48 Pupil services: general requirements

PI 3.49 School counselor

PI 3.50 School counselor-bilingual

PI 3.51 School nurse

PI 3.52 Provisional school psychologist

PI 3.53 School psychologist

PI 3.54 School social worker

Subchapter XI - Pupil Services

PI 3.48 Pupil services: general requirements.A license in a pupil services area under ss. PI 3.49 to 3.54 may be issued to an applicant who has completed the general requirements in s. PI 3.05, except student teaching, including the approved programs and institutional endorsement and the specific requirements listed for the pupil services area under ss. PI 3.49 to 3.54.

History: Cr. Register, April, 1988, No. 388, eff. 5-1-88.

PI 3.49 School counselor - 966.(1) Effective July 1, 1984, a person holding a regular or life professional school counselor - 964 license may continue to serve with this license. A person holding the provisional school counselor - 965 license shall meet the school counselor - 966 license requirements for continued licensure when his or her current license expires.

(2) A regular license as a school counselor - 966 may be issued to an applicant who has completed or possesses the following:

(a) A master's degree with a major in school counseling and guidance or a master's degree with at least 30 semester credits in an approved school counseling and guidance program and the institutional endorsement.

(b) 1. Eligibility for a license to teach or completion of an approved program and 2 years of successful teaching experience at the elementary, middle, or secondary level, or

2. An approved one-year, full-time internship in school counseling at the elementary, middle, or secondary level, or

3. A minimum of 2 years of successful experience as a licensed school counselor in an assigned position of one-half time or more.

1. Understanding the philosophy, purpose, and structure of the total school enterprise including the organization and administration of public schools and pupil services programs.

2. Understanding the psychological foundations of individual and group behavior, including vocational psychology, the structure of personality, child and adolescent development, and the teaching and learning processes.

3. Understanding cultural and societal conditions which affect pupils' development and learning including ethnicity, special education populations, work values, economic systems, urban and rural lifestyles, cultural mores, health and nutrition problems, changing sex roles, stereotyping, demographics, and parenting.

4. Ability to develop staff relationships for the effective implementation of guidance programs within the total curriculum including the understanding of and ability to engage in consulting, coordinating, and communicating functions.

5. Understanding career development theories and practices over the lifespan and the ability to use this knowledge effectively in the school guidance program.

6. Understanding professional issues including pupil rights, the school counselor's relationship to the law, codes of ethics, goals and objectives of professional organizations, standards of preparation and licensing, and role identity of counselors.

7. Understanding child welfare systems such as but not limited to juvenile justice, public health, mental health, developmental disabilities, and county social services; systems which provide services to children identified as juvenile delinquent, mentally ill, developmentally disabled or in need of protection and services.

8. Ability to effectively organize and administer comprehensive school guidance programs including the utilization of community resources and appropriate technology in the program.

9. Ability to generate, analyze, and synthesize data about the behaviors, progress, and needs of pupils individually and within groups.

10. Ability to interpret relevant pupil services research and to implement evaluation procedures necessary for the improvement of school practices related to counseling and guidance.

11. Understanding how to provide counseling and group guidance processes which facilitate pupils' self-awareness, self-understanding and self-acceptance in relation to educational and career development as evidenced by satisfactory completion of a supervised practicum experience in a school setting.

History: Cr. Register, April, 1988, No. 388, eff. 5-1-88.

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PI 3.50 School counselor - bilingual - 967.A regular license as a school counselor - bilingual may be issued to an applicant who holds or is eligible to hold a school counselor - 966 license and also meets the requirements in sub. (1) or (2), as follows:

(1) Holds a regular license as a bilingual teacher.

(2) Is proficient in English and in the target language and has completed additional counseling and guidance practice and field experiences in the community of the target language group.

History: Cr. Register, April, 1988, No. 388, eff. 5-1-88.

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PI 3.51 School nurse - 75.This license is not required. An applicant for a school nurse license shall be a registered nurse in Wisconsin and shall meet the following requirements:

(1) DEGREE REQUIREMENTS. The applicant shall have completed one of the following:

(a) An approved baccalaureate degree program in school nursing which includes the professional education requirements in sub. (2) and a school nursing practicum for at least 6 semester credits.

(b) A baccalaureate degree in nursing or a 3-year nursing diploma earned prior to June 30, 1975; be presently employed by or for a school board; have completed 3 years of experience in school nursing within the 5 years immediately preceding application for the license; and have completed either the 12 semester credits required under sub. (2), or be certified as a public health nurse and have completed at least 6 semester credits from the list of subjects in sub. (2).

(2) PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS. The applicant shall have completed the following professional education requirements as specified in sub. (1);

(a) At least 3 semester credits in human growth and development throughout the life span.

(b) At least 9 semester credits distributed among at least 3 of the following areas:

1. Sociology, which may include social psychology, child welfare, and sociology of education.

2. Philosophy, which may include philosophy of education, philosophical issues in education, philosophical conceptions of teaching and learning, and philosophy of health education.

3. Psychology, which may include human abilities and learning, educational psychology of learning, psychology of the exceptional child, and learning processes in children.

4. Special education, which may include health problems of the exceptional child, psychological appraisal of the physically handicapped, speech correction, and guidance of exceptional children.

5. Other electives, which may include individualizing instruction, general curriculum, problems and materials in health education, principles of health education, and guidance and counseling.

(3) ACADEMIC SPECIALIZATION. An emphasis on pediatrics in ambulatory and community settings within the academic program is recommended.

History: Cr. Register, April, 1988, No. 388, eff. 5-1-88.

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PI 3.52 Provisional school psychologist - 61.Effective July 1, 1980, a 3-year nonrenewable license may be issued to an applicant who has obtained the institutional endorsement and has completed or possesses all of the following:

(1) A master's degree from an accredited college or university.

(2) Course work in all of the following which shall include a minimum of 48 graduate level semester credits, as specified:

(a) Psychological foundations including course work in all of the following of which a minimum of 6 semester credits, as specified:

1. Developmental psychology or child and adolescent psychology.

2. Measurement theory.

3. Personality theory.

4. Psychology of learning.

5. Psychopathology, abnormal behavior disorder.

6. 'Research theory and methods'. The thesis or dissertation may be used to meet this requirement.

7. Statistics.

(b) Education foundations including at least 9 semester credits as follows, of which at least 6 semester credits shall be at the graduate level:

1. At least 3 semester credits in regular education methods or curriculum.

2. At least 3 semester credits in special education methods.

3. At least 3 semester credits in supervision, administration, school law, or other educational foundations courses.

1. At least 6 semester credits in individualized academic and behavioral programming.

2. At least 6 semester credits in psychoeducational interventions including direct and indirect interventions and consultation and therapeutic interventions.

3. At least 9 semester credits in psychological and psychoeducational assessment including intelligence, personality, achievement, adaptive and sensory motor assessment.

4. At least 3 semester credits in school psychological services including role, issues, ethics, laws, and regulations.

5. At least 600 hours of supervised practicum in school psychological services for at least 9 semester credits.

History: Cr. Register, April, 1988, No. 388, eff. 5-1-88.

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PI 3.53 School psychologist - 62.Effective July 1, 1980, a regular license may be issued to an applicant who has obtained the institutional endorsement and has completed or possesses all of the following:

(1) All requirements for the provisional school psychologist license under s. PI 3.52.

(2) An approved program for the preparation of school psychologists, resulting in a Doctor of Philosophy, Doctor of Psychology, Doctor of Education, Education Specialist degree, or consisting of at least 60 graduate semester credits.

(3) Completion of one of the following:

(a) One year of successful experience as a school psychologist under the supervision of a cooperating school psychologist and a written recommendation from the school system administration.

(b) An internship in school psychology under the supervision of a cooperating school psychologist and a written recommendation from the school system administration. The internship shall be part of the approved program and shall be taken for a maximum of 12 graduate semester credits.

History: Cr. Register, April, 1988, No. 388, eff. 5-1-88.

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PI 3.54 School social worker - 50.A regular license may be issued to an applicant who has obtained the institutional endorsement and has completed or possesses all of the following:

(1) A master's degree in social work.

(2) Competencies in all of the following areas:

(a) Family management.

(b) Group dynamics.

(d) Organizational theory.

(e) Program planning and coordination.

(f) Research.

(g) Special populations, such as handicapped, aged, delinquent youth and poverty groups.

(h) Systems analysis.

(i) Various treatment modalities, such as behavior modification, transactional analysis and reality therapy.

(3) At least 18 semester credits of professional education or its equivalent is required. At least 6 of these semester credits shall be in professional education. Graduate and undergraduate credits obtained in social work, psychology, or sociology which the university school of education will accept as equivalent to professional education credits, will be accepted toward completion of the 18 semester credit education requirement.

(4) At least 2 years of social work experience dealing with children and youth is required. One year of this experience shall be completed at the elementary, middle or secondary level in a school, or in an agency whose major responsibility is to serve children and youth and whose program is recognized by the institution. Social work experience under this subsection, at a rate of not less than one year of social work experience for each 4 semester credits, may be substituted for not more than 8 semester credits of the 18 semester credits in professional education required under sub. (3).

History: Cr. Register, April, 1988, No. 388, eff. 5-1-88.

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Reviewed 8-1-03.
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PI 3, WISCONSIN LICENSES - Pupil Services