OAR 584-255-0020
Standards for Professional Development
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Standards for advanced professional development: To qualify as advanced professional development for purposes of promotion to the Professional Teaching License, the advanced professional development units must be aligned with OAR 584-420-0030 (Professional Teaching License: Program Standards) Professional Teaching License: Program Standards and ORS 342.856 (Core teaching standards) Core Teaching Standards (InTASC).(2)
Standards for continuing professional development: To qualify as continuing professional development for licensure renewal, the continuing professional development units must conform to the following national standards adopted by Learning Forward (2011):(a)
Learning Communities: Professional learning that increases educator effectiveness and results for all students occurs within learning communities committed to continuous improvement, collective responsibility, and goal alignment.(b)
Leadership: Professional learning that increases educator effectiveness and results for all students requires skillful leaders who: develop capacity, advocate and create support systems for professional learning.(c)
Resources: Professional learning that increases educator effectiveness and results for all students requires prioritizing, monitoring, and coordinating resources for educator learning.(d)
Data: Professional learning that increases educator effectiveness and results for all students uses a variety of sources and types of student, educator, and system data to plan, assess, and evaluate professional learning.(e)
Learning Designs: Professional learning that increases educator effectiveness and results for all students integrates theories, research, and models of human learning to achieve its intended outcomes.(f)
Implementation: Professional learning that increases educator effectiveness and results for all students applies research on change and sustains support for implementation of professional learning for long term change.(g)
Outcomes: Professional learning that increases educator effectiveness and results for all students aligns its outcomes with educator performance and student curriculum standards.
Source:
Rule 584-255-0020 — Standards for Professional Development, https://secure.sos.state.or.us/oard/view.action?ruleNumber=584-255-0020.