Requirement for Promotion/Retention

Your plan may be determined by requirements for your ceriticate/license, your employer, or your personal goals for development, or some combination of these.   For some, a master's degree may be required or progress toward a degree.  For others, a course or some combination of workshops and personal development activities may be appropriate.  Even persons with a terminal degree may be expected to receive some kind of training.

Depending upon your school, you may be expected to earn credits for professional development.  Although you may be employed in an International school that is relatively free of some of the requirements and bureaucracy in many state- side schools, you may have a teaching certificate granted by a college, university, or state department that requires renewal.  You can search the state where you obtained your certificate and determine the requirements. In general, requirements may be met with the following options.  If you hold a license, certificate, or diploma from another country such as Britain, Canada, or Australia, there are likely requirements for professional development.  You may find information that may affect you by contacting appropriate authorities in your home country.

The Semester/Quarter Credit Option (One quarter credit usually equals 2/3 semester credit; for example, 9 quarter credits equal 6 semester credits).
This option may include independent study courses, correspondence courses, or other courses offered for credit by an approved institution.  The coursework selected for the renewal of your license/certificate may be required to have a direct relationship to the subject area of one or more of the licenses/certificates you hold, or to your professional competence demonstrated in some other way.  You may need to have such credits preapproved by the agency.

The Equivalency Clock Hour Option
In the United States the continuing education or professional education unit (CEU) may be accepted by completing a specific number of equivalency clock hours in approved non-credit activities such as workshops, seminars, conferences, or conventions.  Requests for approval of clock hours for non-credit activities must be submitted to the department in advance of the scheduled activities.

Combination Semester Credits and Equivalency Clock Hours
Some combination of credit and CEU may be accepted. In some form of combination there are a variety of approaches that may be considered with support of your administration.
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