OAR 584-255-0020: Standards for Professional Development

(1) Standards for advanced professional development: To qualify as advanced professional development for purposes of promotion to the Professional Teaching License, the advanced professional development units must be aligned with OAR 584-420-0030 Professional Teaching License: Program Standards and ORS 342.856 Core Teaching Standards (InTASC). (2) Standards for continuing professional development: To qualify as continuing professional development for licensure renewal, the continuing professional development units must conform to the following national standards adopted by Learning Forward (2011): (a) Learning Communities: Professional learning that increases educator effectiveness and results for all students occurs within learning communities committed to continuous improvement, collective responsibility, and goal alignment. (b) Leadership: Professional learning that increases educator effectiveness and results for all students requires skillful leaders who: develop capacity, advocate and create support systems for professional learning. (c) Resources: Professional learning that increases educator effectiveness and results for all students requires prioritizing, monitoring, and coordinating resources for educator learning. (d) Data: Professional learning that increases educator effectiveness and results for all students uses a variety of sources and types of student, educator, and system data to plan, assess, and evaluate professional learning. (e) Learning Designs: Professional learning that increases educator effectiveness and results for all students integrates theories, research, and models of human learning to achieve its intended outcomes. (f) Implementation: Professional learning that increases educator effectiveness and results for all students applies research on change and sustains support for implementation of professional learning for long term change. (g) Outcomes: Professional learning that increases educator effectiveness and results for all students aligns its outcomes with educator performance and student curriculum standards.