---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 U.S.C. § 9902"
title: "20"
title_heading: "Education"
number: "9902"
heading: "Program requirements"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/20/9902"
units:
  - "Chapter 79 — Stem-Training Grant Program"
---

# §9902. Program requirements


The [Director](/usc/20/9905.md?p=5) shall replicate and implement undergraduate degree programs under this chapter that—

- (1) are designed to recruit and prepare students who pursue a baccalaureate degree in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics to become certified as elementary and secondary teachers;
- (2) require the education department (or its equivalent) and the departments or division responsible for preparation of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics majors at an [institution of higher education](/usc/20/1015b.md?p=b-5) to collaborate in establishing and implementing the program at that institution;
- (3) require students participating in the program to enter the program through a [field-based course](/usc/20/9905.md?p=1) and to continue to complete [field-based courses](/usc/20/9905.md?p=1) supervised by [master teachers](/usc/20/9905.md?p=3) throughout the program;
- (4) hire sufficient teachers so that the ratio of students to [master teachers](/usc/20/9905.md?p=3) in the program does not exceed 100 to 1;
- (5) include instruction in the use of scientifically-based instructional materials and methods, assessments, pedagogical content knowledge (including the interaction between mathematics and science), the use of instructional technology, and how to incorporate [State](/usc/20/954.md?p=g-4-E) and local standards into the classroom curriculum;
- (6) restrict to students participating in the program those courses that are specifically designed for the needs of teachers of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics; and
- (7) require students participating in the program to successfully complete a final evaluation of their teaching proficiency, based on their classroom teaching performance, conducted by multiple trained observers, and a portfolio of their accomplishments.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 111–358, title V, § 552, Jan. 4, 2011, 124 Stat. 4022.)