Policy No. 5700 Inservice Training

Inservice Training

I. Purpose Statement

A. District sponsored inservice is to enhance the professional development of educators by allowing credit for lane changes and/or university credit.

1. Committee Governance
   1. The Professional Development Committee is the governing body of the Cache Inservice Academy.
   2. Composition: The Professional Development Committee will be composed of eight members; two administrators, two high school teachers, two middle school teachers, and two elementary teachers. Fifty percent of the committee will be appointed by the Board and the other fifty percent by the Cache Education Association.
   3. Responsibilities:
      • To recommend inservice classes
      • To approve/disapprove classes
      • To evaluate proposed content
      • To determine course evaluation criteria
      • To act as a liaison between the District and the university
2. Policy Detail
   1. Initiation of courses: A course may be initiated in the following ways:
      • By Central Office Administration recommendation
      • By Professional Development Committee recommendation
      • By District assessment
      • By application of individual instructor (commercialization excluded)
      • By a teacher or a group of teachers
   2. Selection and responsibilities:
      • Selection of instructors will be based on an application using the standard District form.
      • Class instructor will be responsible for curriculum development, collection of fees, attendance records, evaluation, record keeping and reporting.
      • Instructor remuneration:
        • Salary for university credit courses will match what is paid to university extension instructors.
        • Salary for non-university courses will be based on hourly rate of their basic contract, funded through various inservice budgets.
   3. Approval of course: The Committee will review all applications. Decisions will depend on available funds, enrollment, and course design.
3. Evaluation and reporting procedure:
   • At the course conclusion, the instructor will issue written credits (letter, certificate, etc.) and submit a roster with credits to the Central Office.
   • The District will maintain a transcript database for each teacher.
   • Teachers must also maintain their own credit records. Formal applications for lane changes must follow District policy.
4. Granting Credit
   1. Lane Change Credit Restrictions:
      • Two-thirds of required credits must be university courses (may include 556 and 656 series).
      • No more than one-third of credits may be non-university.
   2. Program Credit Options:
      • Non-university credit: Courses through Cache Inservice Academy that count toward lane changes (not recognized outside the District).
      • University credit: Courses approved by the university.
   3. Course 556: May be used with a course recording fee and university approval. Instructor must be approved.
   4. Course 656: For full graduate credit. Requires university fee, approval, master’s degree instructor, and formal evaluation.
   5. Contact hours: One inservice credit requires a minimum of ten instructional hours.

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