- Addressed the Superintendent’s
00-01 "CHARGE" to the District Staff Development Committee.
- Established 3 DSDC
Action Teams :
- Re-certification
- CEU/CPDU Credit
Design
- Incentives
- Provided orientation
sessions related to re-certification legal mandates, procedures, and
development/design of individual Certificate Renewal Plans.
- Established an
on-line assistance link for re-certification on the district web-site
at pekin108/staff/recertification/index.html.
- Developed improved
communication procedures to assist staff seeking available resources/incentives
available for re-certification, tuition reimbursement, tuition waivers,
and course approvals.
- Set up criteria
for course proposals for the Professional Academy.
- Attained ISBE Service
Provider status in order to award CPDUs (Continuing Professional Development
Units) for successful completion of district sponsored professional
development activities, courses supporting re-certification.
- Established and
convened the district’s LPDC (Local Professional Development Committee).
- Established LPDC
meeting protocols to address the legal requirements of the Open Meetings
Act.
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- Re-designing the
district’s Professional Development Academy course offerings to assist
non-tenured and tenured staff for initial certification or re-certification
purposes.
- Designing the following
Prof. Development Academy course offerings for the 01-02 school year:
- Year 1: SAI/Process
& Procedures, Tech Basics I, II, Classroom Management, Special Needs
Students.
- Recruiting Prof.
Dev. Academy instructors.
- Engaging in collaborative
planning efforts with IL State University staff to expand the Professional
Development School Partnership to encompass Early Childhood – junior
high school.
- Exploring opportunities
to realize the exchange of IL State University professors and district
teachers to support the expanded PDS partnership.
- Designing on-line
access to staff for accessing incentives available for tuition reimbursement,
tuition waivers, course approvals and re-certification.
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- Will design the
following Prof. Development Academy course offerings for the 02-05 school
years:
- Year 2: SAI/Learning
Environment, Tech Integration I.
- Year 3: Differentiated
Learning, Tech Integration II.
- Year 4: Professional
Leadership, Literacy, Writing, Reading in the Content Areas, TESA.
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