What Counts Towards Your 100 Hours?

  1. A total of 75 out of the 100 hours can accrue from the following activities that support and/or enhance the profession:
    • A mentor for a novice teacher or a cooperating teacher for a preservice teacher may record one hour of Professional Development for each week of supervision.
    • Beginning in Sept. 2008, new teachers (“mentees”) will also accrue PD hours for meeting with their mentors. (The exact number of hours a “mentee” can accrue per year for these meetings has yet to be defined.)
    • You may record up to 10 hours per year for serving on a District or school committee. (PLC’s now count for PD hours, as long as you have an agenda and someone records the minutes.)
    • If you work with a preservice teacher or with a team of preservice teachers in a junior practicum, you may record 3 hours per semester.
    • Presenters of workshops or teachers of courses may record hour-for-hour delivery time plus 2 hours of preparation time for every hour of delivery time. Each workshop or course or its similarity will count only once in the five-year cycle.
  2. If you participate in independent professional studies such as action research, study groups, sabbaticals, fellowships, internships, teacher exchanges, textbook review, portfolio development, online workshops or programs, and/or contributions to professional literature, you must (a) discuss the projected number of hours which will accrue in the study with your immediate supervisor and (b) maintain a log of actual hours completed.
  3. Formal courses (including online), conferences, seminars, and workshops offered by colleges, universities, Boards of Education, professional associations, and training organizations count hour-for-hour.
  4. Courses, seminars, or other activities required for maintenance of licenses or certificates (ex: social worker, school nurse) issued by professional organizations or government entities count hour-for-hour. You may count these hours only once during the five-year period.
  5. Curriculum research, writing, and revision that focuses on Core Curriculum Content Standards count hour-for-hour.