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The DPI will issue this five-year nonrenewable license to all newly certified
beginning teachers, pupil services personnel, and/or administrators.
Sometime after the third year, but before the end of the fifth year of
teaching, the initial educator must complete their Professional Development
Plan (PDP) that demonstrates increased proficiency in all applicable
teaching standards.
The PDP must include:
Educators must document successful completion of their PDP. The documentation may include but is not limited to evidence of whole group and individual student performance; lesson plans; supervisor and mentor feedback on classroom performance; journals documenting student errors with teacher analysis of the errors; classroom management techniques and results; and curricular adaptations for children with disabilities. The documentation portfolio should also include evidence identifying professional development activities relating to the PDP goals.
Initial Educator Team
Initial educators are responsible for developing their goals and providing
evidence that they have met their goals—the initial educator controls
their PDP throughout the entire process.
Each initial educator will have a three-member team responsible for reviewing
and approving the initial educator’s professional development goals
identified in the PDP.
The team will consist of a teacher of the same subject or at the same
grade level who is not the mentor and who is selected by teacher peers
(i.e. the local association), an administrator designated by the superintendent,
and a higher education representative.
Pupil services educators will have a pupil services professional on their
team in place of a teacher and administrators will have an administrator
on their team in place of the teacher.
The professional development team is responsible for verifying the initial
educator’s successful completion of the Professional Development
Plan (PDP). Once a majority (i.e. 2 of the 3 members) of the team
verifies that the initial educator has successfully completed his/her
PDP, the educator will receive a Professional Educator License.
School District Requirements
Every school district is responsible for providing initial educators
with ongoing orientation. This orientation must be collaboratively developed
and delivered by school district representatives, teachers, support staff,
and parents. We anticipate that local associations will be actively engaged
in developing their district’s support program.
School districts are also required to provide each initial educator with
a qualified mentor. Mentor training programs will be approved by the DPI.
Mentors will be selected through a
locally designed process. We anticipate that local associations will be
actively engaged in developing their district’s mentor program.
The initial educator’s mentor must be a professional colleague who
is not in an evaluative role. Mentors will not participate in, or contribute
in any way to, the school district’s formal evaluation process.
Mentors will be a resource for the initial educator to observe, confer,
and provide advice and assistance in the design and implementation of
the professional development plan as well
as other support. The mentoring period may be for less than five years.
Posted August 7, 2001