Professional E-Development

Public education staffs do not have the adequate time or funding to attend needed classroom-based training and professional development courses despite the fact that it would help them meet their continuous accreditation requirements and job needs. Most of the traditional classroom-based professional development courses are costly and often require travel time and expenses. An emerging alternative affords teachers and staff online training for professional development. Online training is proven to be effective, provides 24/7 convenience and costs significantly less per course than attending traditional classroom professional development courses.

Professional e-Development provides for straightforward course registration and viewing from an electronic course catalog. Professional e-Development can be used by Human Resources and local administrators to determine and assign courses and mandated district training to different locations, departments, staff levels or individuals. This can include both internal and external content resources. Teachers also can be permitted to search and access the available content on their own. District administrators can easily track the individual teacher progress, and the module can be used by Human Resources to determine cost impacts due to changes in staff credentials. Assessment of a teacher's point summary from the iSIMS HQT module can provide suggested Professional e-Development courses or content to allow teachers to gather the needed points to become HQT compliant.