what you need to know about changes in state requirements for professional development
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Professional Development
What you need to know about changes in state requirements for professional development
SB 458 gives the commissioner significant authority to determine the professional development plans for schools
The use of Continuing Education Units will be discontinued although many of the requirements tracked by the current CEU system will be retained
Shift from workshop, whole group, seat time orientation to individual, personalized, and job-embedded models
An Act Concerning Educational Reform, Sections 7,38, 39
The Commissioner will establish a professional development program in reading instruction for teachers.
This will support teachers who will need to take a reading instruction exam
Exact focus will be tied to student performance on reading assessments
Training will be job-embedded and local Focus will be on model classroom practices
and scientifically-based research that will be expected to be observed
Section 7: PD in reading
Districts must offer 18 hours to certified employees at no cost
Designed to foster collective responsibility for student performance (data teams, professional learning communities, book or lesson study)
In-house expertise as much as possible Individually, in groups, job-embedded Focused on best practice High priority to reading, literacy & numeracy,
cultural awareness
Section 39: a new design
Administrators need to complete 15 hours in teacher evaluation training every 5 years
All elementary endorsements need to complete 15 hours in reading, reading readiness, and reading assessment every 5 years
All elementary, middle, and secondary endorsements need 15 hours of technology training (or pass a competency test) every 5 years
Content specific training in subjects that they teach
Training on the teacher evaluation model
Section 39: other mandated PD content
No more extensions for educators who were unemployed
Professional certificate holders do not need to attest that they have completed 90 hours for each five year period
Orientation towards customized, job-specific, job-embedded training rather than seat time in workshop formats
Elimination of coding process and minimum length of training session
State can audit districts, not individuals
The change?