ERIC Number: ED486641
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2004-Nov
Pages: 30
Abstractor: ERIC
Reference Count: 0
ISBN: N/A
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Chapter PI 34 Teacher Training and Professional Development Re-design. Implementation in Early Childhood Education and Care Settings
Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
Wisconsin's Quality Educator Initiative, Chapter PI 34 of the Wisconsin Administrative Code, is designed to build teacher training programs and ongoing professional development opportunities that are competency-based and consistent with the state teacher standards. The new system asks students in teacher training programs to demonstrate knowledge, skills, and dispositions for teaching, pupil services, and administration. Initial licenses are issued only to prospective educators who perform successfully, as measured by the standards. This document addresses the implications PI 34 will have on the early childhood education and care workforce. The document also defines specific strategies to achieve priorities identified for individual early childhood programs. The first sections of the report provides the vision and an overview of PI34 and its implications for the workforce. Then the report identifies priorities and general strategies for implementing PI34 within each segment of the early childhood work force and, for each segment, in various early childhood settings. Each section of the report can be used with the main report or as a stand-alone piece to address concerns in each of the following early childhood programs: (1) school district teachers in community settings; (2) special educators in DHFS Birth to 3 programs; (3) licensed teachers in Head Start; and (4) licensed teachers in child care. The Appendixes define the approaches to professional development in the early childhood work force. The Appendixes also include a question-and-answer section.
Descriptors: State Standards, Teacher Education, Early Childhood Education, Teacher Effectiveness, Professional Development, Special Education, School Districts, Teacher Competencies, Teacher Certification
Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, 125 S. Webster Street, P.O. Box 7841, Madison, WI 53707-7841. Tel: 800-441-4563 (Toll Free).
Publication Type: Guides - General; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Early Childhood Education
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Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: Wisconsin State Dept. of Public Instruction, Madison.
Identifiers: Wisconsin


