Professional+Development

=Professional Development Portfolio=

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I graduated in 1987 with a bachelors degree and then took 20 graduate credit hours to earn a Continuing Teaching Certification. I took time off to have children. When No Child Left Behind came into play and left No Teacher Left Standing I had to like many teachers prove I that I was highly qualified. My Certification in Special Education and years of experience was not good enough. I remember when I applied for my first job and the district was looking for someone with at least 2 years teaching experience. Funny now because experience means nothing without a masters degree. Teacher who taught a subject for years were no longer qualified to teach that subject and forced to move to subjects they had never taught but was certified to teach years ago. Moving forward they gave me the option to take a basic Teaching Certificate Test in all subjects or do a portfolio in one subject that I wanted to teach. I took the test and within 2 months of that they change the requirements again. My new choices were to take subject tests in the subjects I wanted to be highly qualified to teach, take 90 hours of in-services in the subjects I wanted to teach or put together a portfolio showing that I was high qualified to teach all the subjects I had taught before. So because they had changed the requirements before and obtaining a masters was not an option to complete in the time frame they had given I choose to do the professional development and portfolio option. I took 90 hours of face to face or online in-service in the following subjects: Government/Economics Chemistry Biology Science English History Technology Math

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Reflections of Favorite In-Services