Training Sessions for Mentors

Training is provided for mentors of induction or provisional contract teachers. Training is also provided for Lead Mentors.  Persons who wish to qualify to be mentors for Induction and Provisional Contract personnel must meet the following requirements:

Induction Contract Mentors will receive a $400 stipend per year.  Provisional Contract Mentors will receive a $200 stipend per year.  Lead mentors (one per school) will receive and extra $100 on their yearly stipend.

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National Board Classes

Information Dissemination Sessions and Support Class
Dissemination sessions are for experienced teachers who are interested in pursuing National Board Certification. Information Dissemination Sessions are held by the South Carolina Center for Educator  Recruitment, Retention & Advancement  by the South Carolina Education Association and by the Palmetto Teachers Association. The purpose of these sessions is to inform teachers about the process and resources available in South Carolina. 

District sessions are held in May of each year and persons who desire to participate in the District's Program must attend one of the District's sessions.

The National Board Certification Support Class is held each summer for one week and with follow-up sessions throughout the year.  The purpose of the class is to guide and support persons who are pursuing or are planning to pursue the certification during the current or following year.

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Orientation Sessions for New Teachers

Certified Personnel new to Richland County School District One are required to attend two orientation sessions.  One orientation session, usually  held at the Stevenson Administration Building, is designed to assist new employees in processing their payroll, insurance and benefits forms. The second orientation session, usually held at Keenan Theatre three days before all other teachers report to begin the school year, is designed to introduce Certified Personnel to the District, its goals and objectives and the resources available within the District.

Induction Contract Personnel are required to attend the District Orientation Sessions plus two days of training before the other teachers report to begin the school year.  They also must attend Induction Meetings throughout the year as part of their Induction Contract Program.

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Update Sessions for Principals, Supervisors, and Instructional Support Personnel

These mandatory Performance Evaluation Update Sessions are for Principals, Assistant Principals and Instructional Support Personnel at the School and District levels who are involved with performance evaluations.

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ADEPT Evaluator Training

Evaluator training sessions are for administrators, instructional support personnel and teachers, information technology specialists, guidance counselors, and speech therapists who have been recommended by their principals to serve as peer evaluators.

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Modified ADEPT Training for Evaluators

This training is designed for teachers who have been trained in ADEPT as coordinating teachers at USC or elsewhere and who are recommended by their principals to become peer evaluators in Richland One

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ADEPT/TEAM Orientation Sessions

These three-hour sessions are for annual and continuing contract personnel who will be evaluated with the TEAM component of ADEPT during the current academic year.  

Certificated persons being evaluated with the TEAM component of ADEPT are teachers, information technology specialists, guidance counselors, and speech therapists.

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Instructional Support Personnel Evaluation Orientation Sessions

ISPE orientation sessions are for district and school instructional support personnel, such as deputy superintendent, area superintendents, assistant principals, CRTs, directors, coordinators, consultants, school psychologists, social workers, etc., who are being evaluated with the District's Instructional Support Personnel Evaluation System during the current year.

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GBE Orientation Session

Goal-Based Evaluation Orientation sessions are for continuing contract teachers who have successfully completed the TEAM evaluation of ADEPT or who have been recommended and trained as peer evaluators and are ready to begin the Goal-Based Evaluation (GBE). 

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Training for Evaluators for ADEPT Special Areas 

Special areas evaluator training is for administrators, instructional support personnel, speech therapists, guidance counselors, and instructional technology specialists who have been recommended by their principals to serve as peer evaluators in the TEAM evaluation of guidance counselors, instructional technology specialists and speech therapists..

Persons who have been trained and endorsed as ADEPT evaluators for teachers need attend only the last day of each training session in order to be trained to evaluate special area persons.

Since the State Department is revising the Special Areas TEAM evaluations and will not have the revisions finished until January of 2003, training sessions will not be held until after that.

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Classified Personnel Performance Evaluation Orientation Sessions 

These orientation sessions are for classified personnel on formal evaluation for the current year and for persons who are going to begin their Goal-Based (GBE) informal evaluation process for the first time.

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Make-up Sessions for New Teachers

Certified personnel who miss the District Orientation Session or the Induction Training held during the three days before the rest of the teachers report to work at the beginning of the year need to attend these make-up sessions. 

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