Course Design Document for

RSU 14 Teacher Contracts & Maine State Teacher Certification

By Erin Abbott

Purpose of the Course In the State of Maine, all public school teachers with a professional
certification must earn a total of 90 professional development hours every 5
years. In my school district, teachers can earn these hours through a variety
of activities, but must use a particular computer program and follow very
specific steps to receive the recertification hours for these activities. Though
earning these hours is a professional requirement, many teachers are
confused about the process and leave it until the very last minute because
they are already so busy in the classroom. Creating a course to make it easy
for the teachers to understand the process of earning these recertification
hours seems necessary.
Audience Description

The target audience for this course is all teachers with a professional
certification in my school district.

Major Course
Learners will be able to correctly complete all required steps to earn hours
Objectives (Terminal) toward their professional teaching recertification.

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Course Enabling
Objectives

- Learners will use a provided list to determine which kinds of professional

development activities can be used to earn recertification hours.
- Learners will determine how many recertification hours are awarded for
each kind of professional development activity.
- Learners will determine the correct pre-approval form required based on
the type of professional development activity they are interested in.
- Learners will correctly complete and submit their pre-approval form.
- Learners will submit the correct documentation as evidence of completion
of their professional development activity.

RLO Enabling
Objective

Learners will categorize common professional development activities into

their matching required prior-approval forms.

Learning Assessment
for Course

There will be a short quiz at the end of the lesson.

Learning Assessment
for RLO

Matching, categorizing, multiple choice questions, and true/false questions.

Instructional Delivery The course will be designed so that the content can be delivered either facemethod for Course
to-face or through a computer program.
(overall)

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Instructional Strategy I plan to use an online module with several slides that describe the
for RLO
differences between the types of certification, the state requirements for
receiving/renewing a professional teaching certification, the professional
development activities commonly used to meet these state requirements
along with the hours awarded for each activity, and the correct forms
required for each activity (for both before and after the activity is
completed). I plan to use tutorials, open-ended learning environments, and
problem-based learning.
Media

Audio script, custom animation showing how to navigate the different

required forms

508 Accommodations

Large font, optional audio scripts

Course Structure
Description

There will be three separate lessons for this course.

Seat Time of Course

Approximately one hour.

Seat Time of RLO

Approximately 20 minutes

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RLO Outline

Lesson 1: Types of certification & state requirements.

- provisional certification
- conditional certification
- professional certification
*A note about probationary & continuing teaching contracts will also be
included as they are often confused as being a part of the state certification
process

Lesson 2: Common professional development activities used to meet state

requirements and the number of hours awarded for each activity.
- taking/teaching college courses
- mentoring a student teacher
- leading or attending professional development workshops in certified
content area

Lesson 3: Required forms for teachers to fill out and submit before and after
completing a professional development activity.
- 2 different prior-approval forms
- evidence of completion form
- where to check total accumulated recertification hours
RLO Flowchart

https://www.gliffy.com/go/publish/9850887

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Screens/Pages in RLO About 20-25

Knowledge Checks or True/False
Other Assessments or
Multiple Choice
Practices for RLO
Rollovers/click events

About 5

RLO Navigation

A Home button on each page, a table of contents for each type of

certification, a certification types button on each of the later pages, Next
& Back buttons on each page (maybe with a super brief description of
what is on each page)

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Screen Layouts for

RLO

Project(name: Windham HS Teacher Certification

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Development Tools
for RLO

I will be using PowerPoint and Articulate Storyline.

Ownership

Erin Abbott will develop the initial course; however/and, the Maine school
district of RSU 14 will maintain the course.

Development Time of
entire course and
RLO

Im honestly not sure how long this will take to develop because Im very
unfamiliar with developing lessons on an online module. If I were to use
PowerPoint, it would probably take me several days to included everything
and get it the way I want it to be.

Support requirements Right now, I think all of the support requirements I need are knowing how
for RLO and course
to work within an online module.
Project
Sign-off [optional]

Please sign below indicating agreement with the proposed course plan and
approving start-up of the storyboard and development phases.

Erin Abbott
Instructional Designer

02/05/16
Date

Project Manager/Sponsor

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