Professional Development Opportunities
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STATE MANDATED PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT All teachers will begin a new five-year cycle, to accumulate 100 professional development hours, on September 1, 2010 that will end on August 31, 2015: - Part-time teachers are required to accrue 50 hours of professional development time within each five-year cycle.
- A teacher on leave for less than one year has the option to stop the PD clock or to accrue professional development hours if the teacher has a written PDP for the school year.
A teacher on leave, during any given school year, who has opted to stop the PD clock and whose leave is: - 3 to 5 months, will deduct 10 PD hours from the 100 hour requirement
- 6 to 10 months, will deduct 20 PD hours from the 100 hour requirement
What counts : - ALL department meetings, TAG meetings and workshops/trainings offered by RV
- All workshops and conferences sponsored by higher education, boards of education, professional associations, training organizations, and other entities approved through the district plan.
- Working on a committee counts—up to 10 hours per year (regardless of the number of committees)
- College courses are based on actual clock hours of attendance. (three credits=45 hours.)
- Serving as a mentor to a provisional teacher (1 hr/week) or as a cooperating teacher (1 hr/week)
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