The Program Quality Assessment (PQA) team has released several asynchronous professional development sessions in Pennsylvania’s Professional Development (PD) Registry.
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The new sessions include:
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Online Self-Paced: Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale, Third Edition (ECERS-3), event ID# 363916 – Participants will learn how the ECERS-3 scale reflects developmentally appropriate practice, how program observation can be used to support continuous quality improvement, and the ECERS-3’s role as an internal assessment tool. Pre-requisite 101-Foundations, attendance at an ITERS-R, ECERS-R or SACERS prior to July 2007, or completion of the online ITERS-R, ECERS-R, or ECERS-3.
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Online Self-Paced: Foundations of the Environment Rating Scale, event ID# 361128 – Participants will learn how the ERS program observation instruments measure quality and how the ERS program observation instruments are used in PA for continuous quality improvement. This session is a pre-requisite for the ITERS-R, ECERS-R, ECERS-3, or SACERS-U seminars.
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Online Self-Paced: Foundations of the Family Child Care Environment Rating Scale (FCCERS), event ID# 361814 – The session supports Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) planning. Participants will learn about the indicators of quality in family and group home settings, how the FCCERS-R measures quality, and how to use program observation to enhance quality practice. This is a pre-requisite for the FCCERS-R course.
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Online Self-Paced: Pennsylvania Foundations of the Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS), event ID# 361130 – Participants that attend this session will learn how CLASS® measures quality and how CLASS® is currently being used to support continuous quality improvement work in Pennsylvania. This session will be a pre-requisite for the upcoming age specific sessions: Infant CLASS, Toddler CLASS, and PreK-3 CLASS.
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Online Self-Paced: School-Age Care Environment Rating Scale – Updated (SACERS-U), event ID# 361129 – Participants will learn about the indicators of quality in school-age settings, how the scale measures quality, and how to use the scale as a self-assessment tool. Pre-requisite: 101-Foundations of the Environment Rating Scales, attendance at an ITERS-R, ECERS-R or SACERS prior to July 2007, or completion of the online ITERS-R, ECERS-R, or ECERS-3.
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To register for these online self-paced PD sessions, visit the PD Registry.
More PQA professional development (in both English and Spanish) are currently in development for the 2023-2024 program year. Learn more about PQA professional development opportunities at pakeys.org/pqa/professional-development.
