As used in Section 6-101 et seq. of this title:

1. 1. "Administrator" means a duly certified person who devotes a majority of time to service as a superintendent, elementary superintendent, principal, supervisor, vice principal or in any other administrative or supervisory capacity in the school district;
2. 2. "Dismissal" means the discontinuance of the teaching service of an administrator or teacher during the term of a written contract, as provided by law;
3. 3. "Nonreemployment" means the nonrenewal of an administrator's or teacher's contract upon expiration of the contract;
4. 4. "Career teacher" means a teacher who has completed three (3) or more consecutive complete school years in such capacity in one school district under a written teaching contract;
5. 5. "Probationary teacher hearing" means the hearing before a local board of education after a recommendation for dismissal or nonreemployment of a probationary teacher has been made but before any final action is taken on said recommendation, held for the purpose of affording such teacher all rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution and the Constitution of Oklahoma under such circumstances and for enabling the board to determine whether to approve or disapprove the recommendation;
6. 6. "Career teacher pretermination hearing" means the informal proceeding before the local board of education held for the purpose of providing a meaningful opportunity to invoke the discretion of the decision maker after a recommendation for dismissal or nonreemployment of a career teacher has been made but before any final action is taken on the recommendation in order to ensure that the career teacher is afforded the essential pretermination due process requirements of notice and an opportunity to respond;
7. 7. "Probationary teacher" means a teacher who has completed fewer than three (3) consecutive complete school years in such capacity in one school district under a written teaching contract;
8. 8. "Suspension" or "suspended" means the temporary discontinuance of an administrator's or teacher's services, as provided by law; and
9. 9. "Teacher" means a duly certified or licensed person who is employed to serve as a counselor, librarian or school nurse or in any instructional capacity; an administrator shall be considered a teacher only with regard to service in an instructional, nonadministrative capacity.

Laws 1989, 1st Extr. Sess., HB 1017, c. 2, § 68, emerg. eff. July 1, 1990; Amended by Laws 1991, HB 1507, c. 16, § 3, emerg. eff. July 1, 1991; Amended by Laws 2003, HB 1767, c. 434, § 8, emerg. eff. July 1, 2003 (superseded document available).