MyPD Support Training

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MyPD Support Training

• By
• Training and Development Office

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Outline

• Licensure Requirements (A)
• Class Design (B)
• Class Management (C)
• Support (D)

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A1 Renewal Requirements

• In each five year cycle, certified employees are
  required by State Board of Education policy to
  complete 150 hours of professional development.
  Each 10 hours of professional development equates
  to 1.0 units of renewal credit (CEUs). Certified
  employees receive 1.0 CEU for each year of
  employment.

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A2-Reading Credit (REA)

• Must address or focus on teachers learning
  strategies to support
• Phonemic awareness
• Phonics
• Vocabulary Development
• Fluency
• Text Comprehension
• Example REA FA05 Corrective Reading Teacher
  Training

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A2-Writing (LAR)

• Writing in-service cannot be counted toward
  reading credit.
• You must use LAR prefix.
• Example
• LAR ELE FA06-K-2 Writing Training

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A3 - Subject Specific Credits

• K-12 teachers must complete 30 hours (3 CEUs) in
  the academic subject areas they currently teach,
  including strategies to teach those subjects,
  during each five-year renewal cycle.

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A4 - Subject Specific Examples

• MAT classes for math teachers
• LAR classes for language arts teachers
• SCI for science teachers
• SSC for social studies teachers
• CTE for CTE teachers
• HPE for health PE teachers
• MUS for music teachers

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A5 - Administrator Credits

• School administrators must complete 50 hours (5.0
  CEUs) of training in teacher effectiveness,
  teacher retention, teacher evaluation, teacher
  support programs, teacher leadership and teacher
  empowerment within each license renewal cycle.

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B1-Site-Based Workshops

• Must submit 30 days in advance. NO retroactive
  classes, please.
• Should be based on staff needs assessments.
• Support School Improvement Plans and district
  initiatives

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B2 - For My School Only

• Include your school courier in prefixes.
• Add a note in the Catalog Notes / Course
  Introduction (Example This workshop is for
  Mountain Island staff only.)
• Use the Edit Class-Properties-Groups feature to
  select your school.
• eg. TEC 585 FA09 Smartboard Orientation

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B3 - Design Tips to Meet Renewal Requirements

• At least 10 contact hours in a series of
  meetings.
• Reading courses must bear REA prefix.
• Subject courses must have subject prefixes.
• TEC is required for lateral entry teachers.

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B4-Assignment for Extra Credit

• Document Independent Work / Homework in Internal
  Comments if you want to award extra credit.
• Accounting Set extra meeting dates to account
  for the homework hours.
• Check the Is Homework check box.

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B5-How Do I Know?

• If my classes are published?
• A Check the Catalog for class publication
• If my classes are returned?
• A Read the notification email I send you
• What changes I need to make?
• A Read the Internal Comments under Class
  Properties.

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B6 - Instructional AssistantsHiring Standards

• 48 semester hours or earn an Associates Degree
  or higher
• Pass WorkKeys assessment AND 96 in-service hours
  with a completion date of 1998 or later.

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B7 - IA Support

• Include them in your school PD when applicable.
• Two IA Institutes offered in 2009-10.

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C1 - MyPD Sign-In Sheets

• Use the sign-in sheets generated from MyPD
  (RosterPDF) for participants to sign in
• Benefit 1easy to take attendance
• Benefit 2you know who has not registered and can
  remind them accordingly

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Sign-in Sheet Example
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C2 - Date Changes

• Do not call us to change dates in the Catalog
• Notify staff of the changes via your school
  communication channel
• Update the dates on your sign-in sheets to
  reflect the changes for your own record
• Check attendance in the column of the old dates

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C3 Shortcut in Issuing Credit

• Attendance must be taken first for this to work.
• On the Issue Credit screen (with everyone
  In-progress), you can select Credit Status
  AllPartial.
• The system will then calculate the credit based
  on the attendance, and turn them into ATTENDED,
  ABSENT, or PARTIAL.

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C4 - Deadline for Issuing Credit

• 15 business days after the last class meeting
• I will contact you to close your classes if not
  done
• Close classes Take Attendance and Issue Credit

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D1 - Registration and Cancellation

• Every CMS employee MUST register in MyPD by the
  end of workshops in order to get CEU credit for
  CMS workshops.
• Participants must cancel their registration by
  midnight of the first meeting.
• They will be marked Absent if they do not
  attend / cancel classes.

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D2 - Search Tips

• For my school PDUse the school courier to
  search.
• Fewer is betterkeyword search
• No Boolean searchClear first.

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D3 - Schedule Conflicts

• Error messages shows that you have a schedule
  conflict when you register for classes for the
  same date and time.
• It DOES NOT prevent you from registering for both
  classes.
• Cancel one of the classes as appropriate/needed.

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D4 - VIF (980 SS)

• Obtain their real social security numbers.
• Update their new SS with their Benefits
  representatives.
• Set up their email account in IntranetLogin
  Help.
• Their names automatically get loaded into MyPD.
• They cannot register for any classes until they
  complete the above steps.

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D5 - Did I Get My Credit Yet?

• Take Post-Class Evaluations first!!!
• REGISTERED with 0 credit
• Class is still in session
• Credit is not issued yet--Contact the course
  facilitator/contact person and ask them to issue
  credit

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D6 - Did I Get My Credit Yet?

• PASSED/ABSENT, but wrong credit
• Contact the course facilitator/contact person.
  Ask them to verify AND correct attendance in
  MyPD.
• Facilitators send an email to Christina or Kate
  to put participant back In-Progress.

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D7 - Did I Get My Credit Yet?

• PASSED, with Pending Evaluation
• You must first complete the evaluation by
  clicking the Take Post-Class Evaluation link
  listed on your Class Portfolio/Welcome Screen.

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• All MyPD supporting documents are on
  DocushareProfessional DevelopmentMyPD folder.

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Contact Information

• School Course Development Support
• MyPD Helpdesk / Renewal Credit
• Kate McNally
• mypd_at_cms.k12.nc.us
• 343-5980