My district does not require anything above what the state requires for teaching certificates. Which in Washington means 15 quarter credits or 150 clockhours in 5 years. Therefore, there are plenty teacher that do not do anything over the summer. I am gifted in the sense that I teach with staff who are constantly wanting to learn more and practice more. We often meet regularly with our grade level teams over the summer looking at our content how to best embed literacy as well as projects and fieldwork. I am attending a four day conference within out Network (expeditionary learning) with three other staff members, while also attending a conference with another EL school for assessment. As I said though, our district requires nothing above the state. It is too bad.
Christy Swan Summit School Spokane, Washington _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail® has ever-growing storage! Don’t worry about storage limits. http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/Storage?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial_Storage_062009 _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
