ProTeach Seminar in Spokane, February 10th and 11th

Below is a cut-and-paste of an email that I received from the WEA regarding a ProTeach workshop being put on in Spokane next month. ProTeach is the process that new teachers have to go through in order to get their Professional Certificate; the feedback I've gotten from these WEA workshops in the past has been overwhelmingly positive. If you have any questions, please email!

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Washington teachers certified after Aug. 31, 2000 are required to attain professional certification. The ProTeach ® portfolio, a fully online assessment run by the Educational Testing Service (ETS), is the means by which teachers earn their professional certification. The WEA ProTeach ® Jump Start Seminar provides candidates with important information about the portfolio requirements, time to examine the three-entry portfolio in detail and the opportunity to plan how to meet requirements. This pre-candidacy support option helps candidates to prepare for the process and complements work with a support group during candidacy. Click here for more information about the ProTeach ® Jump Start Seminar, including information about four-day summer offerings.

Winter Seminars: For the first time, WEA will offer a "condensed" two-day winter version of its ProTeach ® Jump Start Seminar. The cost for this 20-hour event is $120 for full WEA members. Trainings will be 10 hours each day (8:30 a.m. to 8 p.m.) and will include breakfast, lunch and dinner. Participants must cover their own substitutes for the Friday portion of the training, if needed. Registration is on a first-come, first-served basis. Up to 20 clock hours are included in the registration fee. To run each seminar we require at least 20 registrants. If there are insufficient numbers, we will fully reimburse registrations that have been submitted. Course registration will close if a given event reaches capacity.

Spokane 2-Day Seminar (20 hours) -- Feb. 10-11, 2012 (Friday/Saturday). Register now.

Note: Our registration system closes Jan. 23 at 5 p.m. After that date, please e-mail Sheila Beaver to see if space is still available.

We hope you'll join us for this high-quality introduction to the ProTeach ® portfolio. Past participants have given this seminar series consistently positive evaluations.