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Professional Development Plan                           

The Professional Development Plan is intended to improve the quality of teaching and learning by ensuring that teachers participate in substantial professional development in order to remain current with their profession and meet the learning needs of their students.

• PDPs must include a needs analysis, goals, objectives, strategies, activities and evaluation standards for professional development of the school district or BOCES and a description of how the school district or BOCES will provided all teachers substantial professional development activities directly related to student learning needs identified in school report cards and other sources.
   

• PDPs must be aligned with the New State learning standards and assessments, including linguistic, cultural diversity and special needs and teacher capacities, and indicate the number of hours each teacher is expected to participate in professional development in the school years covered by the plan.  Activities must be articulated across grade levels and subject areas and show how they will be provided and measured in a continuous manner.
   

• For PDPs covering the time period after February 2, 2004, the plan must also describe how it will provide teachers holding a professional certificate with opportunities to maintain such certificate in good standing based upon successfully completing 175 hours of professional development every five years.