LOCAL
PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT
COMMITTEE
(LPDC)
What
is LPDC?
The Local Professional Development
Committee (LPDC) is a committee that has the authority
to approve or not approve your license for renewal. This includes the
authority to approve or not approve any professional development, which
could include continuing education units (CEUs) and or university credit.
Individuals wishing to renew/transition a certificate/license
must present their credentials to TCESC’s LPDC for review and approval.
Upon approval of the LPDC, the application renewal/transition will be
forwarded to the Ohio Department of Education.
Click
here for LPDC Reminders
.
How
does the LPDC impact me?
To
renew an educator license with the Ohio Department of Education, you must
have the approval of the LPDC chairperson on your application form.
Educators are responsible for working with their Local
Professional Development Committee (LPDC) and for ensuring that their
requirements for maintaining a certificate and/or license are met.
TCESC’s Human Resources Department will assist you; however, it
is solely your responsibility to track your professional development
activities and all your certificate/license expiration dates.
LPDC Forms
LPDC Resources
What
do I have to do to have
the
LPDC approve my license application?
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Write an Individual
Professional Development Plan (IPDP) and have a current IPDP on file.
The LPDC cannot approve any professional development without an
IPDP on file.
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Submit copies of professional
development workshop certificates with the cover sheet to the LPDC as
the workshops are completed.
- Submit
the license renewal application and list of approved CEUs or official
college transcripts to the LPDC when it is time to renew your license.
The LPDC chairperson must sign the renewal application before it is
sent to ODE.
Step
1: Write an Individual Professional Development Plan (IPDP)
Ohio law requires all educators to
write an IPDP. Educators must submit a new IPDP every five years when a
new license is issued.
It’s
simple to write an IPDP. The form is on the TCESC website, under the
Employees, LPDC. You’ll only have to complete some basic information on
the top of the form. Next, click on a two drop down menus and type in five
to ten words. Then sign the form and you are done.
Below are some step by step directions for writing an IPDP for
TCESC’s LPDC.
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Complete the top of the form, which requires some basic information such as name, licensure type, effective licensure dates, etc.
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Select one organizational goal from the drop down menu. Most people select the goal that states: To build school district capacity to improve learning by providing technical assistance, training, staff and resources as measured by customer feedback.
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Write your own personal goals. The drop down menu on the IPDP form allows you to select the first half of the goal. The following options are available:
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To
continue to develop my knowledge of
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To
enhance my professional knowledge in
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To
improve my skills in
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To
learn and demonstrate understanding in
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To
learn more about
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To
learn how to apply
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To
maintain current knowledge of
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To
seek additional knowledge and skills via
All you have to do is complete the sentence for one of the items above.
IPDP goals should be very broad so that every professional development activity that you participate in throughout a 5-year licensure period can be covered by the goal.
Below are some examples of approvable IPDP goals:
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To
continue to develop my knowledge of special education.
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To
enhance my professional knowledge in using technology in the
classroom.
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To
learn more about working with special education students.
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To
maintain my current knowledge of school law.
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Select the drop down menu that that states you will do a combination of University credit and workshops.
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Print the document, sign it and submit it to Denise Domhoff, LPDC secretary, in the TCESC human resources office.
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LPDC will review the IPDP and either approve it or send it back to you for revisions. If it is sent back to you for revisions, this usually means that the goals you wrote are too specific. The LPDC strives to approve IPDPs with goals that are broad enough to encompass any professional development activity that an individual engages in throughout a 5-year licensure period.
Step
2: Approving Continuing Education Units
After an educator has completed the
IPDP, the educator can begin accumulating contact hours, which will be converted to continuing education units that are used to renew licenses.
Each time an educator receives a certificate of professional development, the certificate should be submitted to the LPDC using the Workshop Continuing Educational Units: Educator Request for Approval form as a cover sheet.
Each submission should include:
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The completed Workshop Continuing Educational Units: Educator Request for Approval
form. Click here for the form.
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A copy of the certificate from the professional development session.
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A copy of the agenda from the professional development session. This is not required if the session is conducted by TCESC.
The LPDC will review the professional development to ensure that it meets the goals of the approved IPDP.
Step
3: Applying for a License Renewal
When it becomes time to renew a
license, the educator must submit the application to the LPDC for
approval. The LPDC chairperson must ensure that the educator has an
approved IPDP on file and that all the professional development being used
to renew the license has been approved by the LPDC.
To renew a
standard teaching or administrative license, an individual must:
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Have an IPDP approved by the LPDC before beginning any
professional development activities.
- Achieve the necessary number of CEUs or semester
hours.
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To renew using semester hours, you must submit transcripts
from an accredited college or university showing 6 semester hours.
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To renew using
CEUs, you must submit verification of completion of 18 CEUs or 180
clock hours. These CEUs must be approved by the LPDC before the
license can be renewed.
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To
renew using both semester hours and CEUs, you must have a combination
of semester hours and CEUs that equal 6 semester hours or 18 CEUs. A
conversion chart is available under the LPDC Resources section of this
webpage to assist you with doing the conversion of CEUs to semester
hours.
The required materials must be submitted to the human
resources secretary, who will schedule a review of materials with the
TCESC LPDC.
Meeting:
The next LPDC meeting will be held:
May 5, 2011 at 2:30 p.m. in the computer lab.
Contact:
Dale Lennon dale.lennon@neomin.org
or
Denise Domhoff denise.domhoff@neomin.org
LPDC
Members:
- Dale Lennon, Co-Chairperson
- Rhonda Accordino, Co-Chairperson
- Denise Domhoff, Recording Secretary
- Michele Dohar
- Carlotta Sheets
- Brenda Weiser
- Paul Antonchak Jr.
- Melanie Granger
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