Iowa Admin. Code r. 877-32.7 - High-quality professional development
(1)
Responsibility of program. Adult education and literacy
programs are responsible for providing professional development opportunities
for professional and volunteer staff pursuant to this rule, including:
a. Proper procedures for the administration
and reporting of data;
b. The
development and dissemination of instructional and programmatic practices based
on the most rigorous and scientifically valid research available; and
c. Appropriate reading, writing, speaking,
mathematics, English language acquisition, distance education, and staff
training practices aligned with content standards for adult
education.
(2)
Professional development. Professional development is to
include formal and informal means of assisting professional and volunteer staff
to:
a. Acquire knowledge, skills, approaches,
and dispositions;
b. Explore new or
advanced understandings of content, theory, and resources; and
c. Develop new insights into theory and its
application to improve the effectiveness of current practice and lead to
professional growth.
(3)
Professional development standards. The department and
entities providing adult education and literacy programs are to promote
effective professional development and foster continuous instructional
improvement. Professional development is to incorporate the following
standards:
a. Strengthens professional and
volunteer staff knowledge and application of content areas, instructional
strategies, and assessment strategies based on research;
b. Prepares and supports professional and
volunteer staff in creating supportive environments that help adult learners
reach realistic goals;
c. Uses data
to drive professional development priorities, analyze effectiveness, and help
sustain continuous improvement for adult education and literacy programs and
learners;
d. Uses a variety of
strategies to guide adult education and literacy program improvement and
initiatives;
e. Enhances abilities
of professional and volunteer staff to evaluate and apply current research,
theory, evidence-based practices, and professional wisdom;
f. Models or incorporates theories of adult
learning and development; and
g.
Fosters adult education and literacy program , community, and state-level
collaboration.
(4)
Provision of professional development. Adult education and
literacy program staff are to participate in professional development
activities that are related to their job duties and improve the quality of the
adult education and literacy program with which the staff is associated. All
professional development activities will be in accordance with the published
Iowa Adult Education Professional Development Standards.
a. All professional staff are to receive at
least 12 clock hours of professional development annually.
b. All professional staff new to adult
education are to receive six clock hours of preservice professional development
prior to, but no later than, one month after starting employment with an adult
education program. Preservice professional development may apply toward the
professional development described in paragraph
32.7(4)"a."
c.
Volunteer staff are to receive 50 percent of the professional development in
paragraphs 32.7(4)"a" and "b."
(5)
Individual
professional development plan. Adult education and literacy programs
are to develop and maintain a plan for hiring and developing quality
professional staff that includes all of the following:
a. An implementation schedule for the
plan.
b. Orientation for new
professional staff .
c. Continuing
professional development for professional staff .
d. Procedures for accurate record keeping and
documentation for plan monitoring.
e. Specific activities to ensure that
professional staff attain and demonstrate instructional competencies and
knowledge in related adult education and literacy fields.
f. Procedures for collection and maintenance
of records demonstrating that each staff member has attained or documented
progress toward attaining minimal competencies.
g. Provision that all professional staff will
be included in the plan. The plan may be differentiated for each type of
employee.
(6)
Waiver . The time for professional development may be reduced
by local adult education and literacy programs in individual cases where
exceptional circumstances prevent staff from completing the specified hours of
professional development. Documentation is to be kept that justifies the
granting of a waiver . Requests for exemption from staff qualification
requirements in individual cases will be kept on record and available to the
department for review upon request.
(7)
Monitoring. Each program
will maintain records of staff qualifications and professional development for
five years, which will be available to department staff for monitoring upon
request.
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