Inservice Credit Guidelines
for Professional Conferences
BACKGROUND
With the adoption of the Professional Development System Evaluation Protocol (PDSEP), the Florida Department of Education requires that professional development activities be part of an ongoing and sustained professional development effort. Credit for conference attendance can be awarded as long as the conference serves as a strategy in a larger professional development effort, and meets the following criteria:
1. Planning
Attendance at a professional conference must be included in the educator’s Individual Professional Development Plan (IPDP), and/or the school’s Student Learning Plan (SLP), and/or the district’s Strategic Plan. Attendance must serve as a strategy toward an approved/reviewed goal. If the attendee plans to attend specific sessions only, the plan should be detailed accordingly. Otherwise, full conference attendance is expected.
2. Delivery
The attendee must attend all sessions of the conference as specified in planning.
The attendee is responsible for collecting handouts and agendas as documentation
of attendance.
3. Follow-up
The information from the conference must then be applied according to the planned strategy. Once implemented, the employee is responsible for appropriate
follow-up activity and documentation according to the method chosen (letters are
by state MIS database designation):
| M. | Structured Coaching/Mentoring |
| N. | Action Research related to conference/training |
| O. | Collaborative planning related to conference/training |
| P. | Participant product related to training (may include lesson plans, written reflection, audio/videotape, case study, samples of student work, etc.) |
| Q. | Study Group participation |
| R. | Electronic – interactive |
| S. | Electronic – non-interactive |
4. Evaluation
The participant is responsible for evaluation as specified in the original or
modified plan. This may also include a conference evaluation. NOTE: If other
activities in the plan are incomplete, you may submit a partial evaluation of the
conference strategy/implementation. Acceptable evaluation methods include:
| A. | Results of district-developed/standardized student test |
| B. | Results of school-constructed student test |
| C. | Portfolios of student work |
| D. | Checklists of student performance |
| E. | Charts and graphs of student progress |
| F. | Other performance assessment |
Process for Requesting Inservice Credit
- Complete the Conference Attendance and External Inservice Credit Application.
- Attach all documentation as specified.
- Send to Peggy Stoever at the Professional Development Center.
Inservice credit will be granted at the rate of 1 point per delivery contact hour.
For more information, please call the Professional Development Academy, (941) 255-0808.
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