That is just plain wrong. Principals are not part of the teachers'
union and they are part of TRS. If you hold a valid certificate and are
employed as a certified staff member - and tech coordinators do count -
then you should be in TRS. I am not part of the teachers' union nor am
I considered an administrator per se but I am in TRS.
Jared Lynn wrote:
When my school hired me, they told me that I couldn't pay into trs
because that would mean that I belong to the teacher union and the
school was legally advised against it. Something about I have access
to much information and could possibly harm either the administration
or the teacher union. I'm not sure which system I'd like to pay into,
one that is for sure going to go away sometime, and one that possibly
might go away any day.
Did any other school districts handle this in a similar fashion?
Thanks,
Jared Lynn
PORTA CUSD #202 Technology Coordinator
jl...@porta202.org <mailto:jl...@porta202.org>
217-501-4920
On Oct 12, 2010, at 8:45 PM, "Sullivan, Terence" <sulliv...@shiloh1.us
<mailto:sulliv...@shiloh1.us>> wrote:
Bill,
You can generate CPDUs by presenting – even in house. The first time
you present on a topic (ed curriculum related) you can claim 8 CPDUs,
for repeats of the SAME SESSION you can claim 3 CPDUs. A new
topic/session is again another 8 CPDUs. Keep a program listing your
name and topic for evidence.
You can generate CPDUs by being on committees. Read the rules but if
you meet 5 times a year or 8 times a year (etc) you earn X CPDUs.
Keep the agenda for evidence
You can do Action Research to generate CPDUs; You can publish an
article to generate CPDUs.
There are many options other than seat time in a session by someone else.
All that said – I have the Opposite issue from you. I did all my
paperwork and documented everything and then when I tried to Certify
my CPDUs for the ROE it would not let me . I checked with the ROE and
they said I was not eligible to claim CPDUs because I had to be
“EXEMPT” I have a Type 09 and I pay TRS. I tried to argue but got
no where. I even do some independent student students and give
grades … but my ROE says I have to be EXEMPT.
I guess it comes down to local control at the ROE and what they want
to do. My personal panic is one day I try to claim TRS retirement
and they tell me I still owe them 10 years because I was not an
Active TRS member. Enough rant but I was ticked when they would not
let me certify my certificate with the CPDUs I had.
Terry
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*Subject:* [tech-geeks] OT - Illinois TGs Hacking Professional
Development forthe Autodidact
I am approaching a deadline for Continuing Ed and have very little to
show for the last five years. My Supt. does not believe in ITEC or
anything that takes me out of town during school hours so I cannot
get any formal credits without college night classes. However like
all TGs I am an autodidact.Just this month I spent about a day
learning Big Blue Button, a FLOSS GoToMeeting/GoToAssist and will be
rolling out this great new service any day now. I would have trouble
fitting all of the things I have taught myself over the last five
years on five single spaced pages but I have almost nothing formal I
am turned down when I try to attend a Feast or anything of the kind.
Is there any legal way for an autodidact to turn the continuing ed we
must do ourselves to keep an ever expanding network current into ISBE
recognized continuing ed?
How do you good and clever folks fill out your ISBE continuing ed
requirements?
Thanks Gang!
BK
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