The board shall:
1. Supervise the licensure of teachers.
2. Set standards for and approve teacher preparation programs.
3. Seek the advice of teachers, administrators, school board members, teacher education professors, and other interested citizens in developing and updating codes or standards of ethics, conduct, professional performance, and professional practices.
4. Adopt, in accordance with chapter 28-32, codes or standards of ethics, conduct, professional performance, and professional practices.
5. Make recommendations for the inservice education of individuals engaged in the profession of teaching.
6. Issue major equivalency endorsements and minor equivalency endorsements.
7. Appoint an executive director to serve at its discretion.
8. Authorize the executive director to employ personnel, subject to approval by the board.