Section 67.1-02-02-05 - Professional development for license renewalAll professional development relicensure credit must meet the professional development requirements approved by the education standards and practices board.
1.Licensure renewal course credits. The following minimum requirements must be approved by the education standards and practices board or through the institutional program review process.a. Instructor of record. The instructor of record must hold an advanced degree (master's or above) and provide a vita/resume that includes name; current title; current address; telephone, facsimile, and electronic mail, as appropriate; highest degree earned and field of study; related professional or work experience; topics to be addressed; and any other relevant information.b. Instructor's role. The instructor of record's role is to ensure submission of the proposal form to include all identified components as described in the proposal form subdivision below; a copy of the assessment tool and an identified process for keeping attendance using the criteria identified in the evaluation plan criteria subdivision below; and issue final grades.c. Multispeaker event. The instructor of record is responsible for upholding quality for a multispeaker event by ensuring that at least seventy-five percent of the total instructional time must be provided by individuals with a master's degree or higher. The instructor of record is responsible for completing a matrix of presenters for these events.d. About presenters. The presenters are expected to provide quality graduate education experiences for participants. Presenters are encouraged to possess a master's degree or higher. A multispeaker event must have seventy-five percent of instructional time provided by individuals with a master's degree or higher. However, a bachelor's degree may be accepted based on level of experience, accomplishments, and subject matter expertise. Each presenter is required to complete a short biography or resume to provide the presenter's educational credentials and experience or training in relation to the presenter's presentation topic.e. Proposal form. The proposal form must include conference or course description; objectives and learner outcomes; conference or course topical outline; semester hours to be offered; all requirements and expectations (e.g., participation, attendance, assignments) for earning the credit; textbooks or other resources to be used; and evaluation plan of learner outcomes. In addition, for multispeaker events an electronic copy of the program is required; a document that includes session descriptions; and completion of the matrix of presenters specifying their educational credentials, topics to be addressed, and the length in hours and minutes of each presenter's presentations.f. Credit requirements. The following requirements must be communicated to the participants prior to the start of the event.(1) Participants must hold a minimum of a bachelor's degree to be eligible to receive graduate credit.(2) Participants must attend a minimum of fifteen hours of graduate level activity per credit hour.(3) Participants must complete all credit requirements of the event.(4) Participants must complete a product or an application of learning.g. Evaluation plan criteria. One copy of the evaluation plan for determining the participant's grade must be submitted with this proposal. The evaluation plan may be formatted a number of ways but must, at a minimum, include participant verification of attendance, documenting the required fifteen clock-hours per credit (e.g., session sign-in sheet, session summary) and an assignment designed to elicit from the participants their ability to apply concepts and knowledge learned at the conference in their own teaching and work situations (e.g., lesson plan, summary paper, group project/paper). An assessment rubric is required for letter grading but not for satisfactory or unsatisfactory grading.2.Five-year licensure renewal. As licenses are renewed, after July 1, 2011, six semester hours of re-education credit will be required for the new five-year period, as documented by college or state-approved alternative program transcripts, earned within the dates of the license, and contracted teaching of a minimum of thirty days. Applicants not meeting these requirements will be processed as indicated under that section.a. Professional development coursework submitted for renewal may be either undergraduate or graduate credit and must be either in professional education or applicable to the applicant's licensed major, minor, or endorsement areas as indicated above.b. Applicants who are working toward an added degree or endorsement may use coursework applicable to that expanded area of study for renewal. In extraordinary circumstances, the board may waive or extend the time for completion of the re-education credits.N.D. Admin Code 67.1-02-02-05
Effective July 1, 1995; amended effective October 1, 1998; March 1, 2000; July 1, 2004; April 1, 2006; July 1, 2010; July 1, 2012.Amended by Administrative Rules Supplement 2014-354, October 2014, effective 10/1/2014. .Amended by Administrative Rules Supplement 2020-378, October 2020, effective 10/1/2020.General Authority: NDCC 15.1-13-09, 15.1-13-10
Law Implemented: NDCC 15.1-13-09, 15.1-13-10