Thursday, October 9, 2008

QRIS Portfolio

A provider would like to know the answers to the questions below:

a) If a staff member only works with after care, does the school need to complete a professional development form for that staff member?

b) How many weeks of lesson plans should a school place in the professional portfolio? Should more be included if the school will not be using the ERS scores?

c) If a school uses a combination of their own curriculum and the Creative Curriculum, but only lists Creative Curriculum at the 1 star level, does the training at the 2 and 3 star levels need to be specifically on the Creative Curriculum or can it be a combination of their curriculum and the Creative Curriculum?

d) When a school is using their own curriculum and needs to submit the proper from and documentation, who should everything be submitted to? How long will it take for it to be reviewed?

1 comment:

Anita Platt said...

a) No, if the person works exclusively with school-age children we do not need their information.
b)I would say 4-6 weeks is sufficient, and they must be submitted for every classroom under schoolage.
c)The decision for this year is: The training can be general as long as it is related to developmentally appropriate curriculum. This may change in the future.
d)The documentation will go into their portfolio for review. However if the school would like their curriculum approved by the ELC for other purposes, they are welcome to submit it to the ELC. That is a longer process.