Certification and Master Inservice Training

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Certification and Master Inservice Training

• Keara Danger
• Kdanger_at_fcis.org

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Certification Timeline

• Teacher applies for Temporary Certificate
• Online application at www.fldoe.org/edcer
  t or
• Complete CG10 Form and send 75 per
  subject to
• DOE in Tallahassee.
• Teacher receives Statement of Eligibility. This
  will delineate what the teacher needs to do to
  get the temporary and/or professional
  certificate. SOE will always request submission
  of a CT111, which will verify employment.

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• Teacher completes Livescan Fingerprint Process
  (instructions can be found on www.fcis.org)
• Head of School submits Request for Issuance
  (CT-111)
• Teacher receives Temporary Certificate.

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• Teacher completes requirements listed on SOE,
  including (PECD) Professional Education
  Competency Demonstration Program, if needed.
• Teacher receives Professional Certificate valid
  for five years.
• During validity period of certificate teacher
  participates in sufficient professional
  development (inservice) to renew certificate.
  This could be two 3-credit college courses OR one
  3-credit college course and 60 inservice points
  OR 120 inservice points. Also, a passing score
  on a Florida subject area test specific to the
  coverage to be renewed is equivalent to three (3)
  semester hours of college credit for renewal
  purposes.

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• Before validity period ends teacher renews
  online, www.fldoe.org/edcert or completes Renewal
  of Certification Form CG10R. Renewal application
  will ask to report professional development being
  used for renewal. If college courses were taken,
  teacher sends official transcript to the DOE. If
  the teacher took their subject area test and
  results should automatically be sent to the DOE.
  If the teacher is using inservice credit, the
  teacher must contact the FCIS Office,
  kdanger_at_fcis.org, to submit the CT-116 verifying
  inservice hours.
• Teacher receives Professional Certificate valid
  for five years.

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PECD Professional Education Competency
Demonstration Program

• If a teachers Statement of Eligibility says that
  he or she has not satisfied the PEC requirement,
  then you will need to purchase a PECD manual from
  the FCIS Office and then the head of your school
  (or a person designated by the head) must put the
  new teacher through the program.
• The teacher MUST have a current temporary
  certificate while completing the program.
• The dates of the PECD participation MUST be
  within the validity dates of their temporary
  certificate.
• To order the FAANS Professional Education
  Competency
• Demonstration Program (PECD) please contact the
  FCIS Office
• to order. The manual will be mailed along with
  an invoice for
• 50.00.

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To Order Forms

• Email Keara Danger, Kdanger_at_fcis.org, to request
  CT111 (Request for Issuance), applications
  (CG10/CG10R) or Livescan Fingerprint Instructions
• Contact the Florida Department of Education,
  www.fldoe.org/edcert, by using their e-mail
  service form.

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Master Inservice

• The FCIS Master Inservice Plan is designed to
  assist
• FCIS schools in assisting their teachers with
• earning inservice credit for recertification.
• A teacher may earn inservice credit in two ways

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1. Workshops organized by their school and held on
   campus. The Master Inservice Coordinator
   completes the Application for Inservice Activity
   form and submits it to FCIS for approval at least
   30 days prior to the activity. FCIS staff
   indicates approval of the activity by signing the
   form and assigning an activity number (activity
   will be recorded by MIS Coordinator on completion
   certificate). A copy of the form is then returned
   to the MI Coordinator.

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• The coordinator keeps an attendance log for
  the workshop. The workshop might be completed in
  two or three sessions or spread out over several
  months either is acceptable. Once the workshop
  is completed, the coordinator requests the number
  of Certificates of Completion needed (only
  certified teachers receive certificates), has the
  workshop participants complete them, and then
  returns the top copies to FCIS. Certificate on
  Completions may also be found on the FCIS website
  in a Word Doc. (www.fcis.org, School Resources)

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• Keep in mind that any small workshop,
  between 2-9 hours, must be counted under the
  Professional Growth and Development component, 8
  408 001. The Master Inservice Coordinator keeps a
  running total for each teacher and then completes
  the paperwork (Certificate of Completion) at the
  end of the school year. At least 12 hours must be
  earned within a school year.

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• 2. One or more teachers attend a workshop off
  campus. Teachers should take the Inservice
  Independent Activity form to the workshop and
  complete it during the workshop. Of particular
  importance is the section where the teacher lists
  the sessions, times and dates. Teachers submit
  the form to their Master Inservice Coordinator
  who then signs it and sends it to FCIS. FCIS can
  accept a certificate from the workshop as long as
  the certificate has the title, participation
  dates, number of hours and the teachers full
  name.

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• In either case the Master Inservice
  Coordinator is responsible for identifying the
  appropriate component number and name from the
  Master Inservice Manual. Each component has a
  maximum number of points. No matter how many
  hours the teacher devotes to the workshop, the
  maximum may not be exceeded per 5-year renewal
  period. The teacher earns one inservice point for
  each hour spent in a workshop. There are a wide
  variety of components, enough to fit virtually
  any activity.

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• Remember
• All paperwork for inservice credit must be
  submitted by the end of July of that school year.
  
• No teacher can use more than 60 Professional
  Growth and Development points for renewal of a
  certificate.
• MI Coordinators should request FCIS completion
  certificates for certified teachers ONLY.
• Meetings and planning sessions do not count for
  inservice credit.
• To obtain a Master Inservice Manual, contact the
  FCIS Office, kdanger_at_fcis.org. You will be
  billed 75.

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