1. Guided Development - encourage your teachers to select and design their own learning goals and the means to accomplish those goals. This will help your teachers to address their own problems and by doing so, create a sense of professionalism.

2. Observation and Assessment - continue to monitor your teachers' classroom instruction techniques and provide feedback. Be the "eyes and ears" for your teachers. This will have a positive impact on the overall instructional process.

3. Involvement in a Development or Improvement Process - have your teachers assess current practices to include the determination of a problem whose solution will improve student outcomes. The solution might include developing curricula or designing new programs. This process can result in new skills and improved attitudes.

4. Training - have your teachers present a training session during your departmental meetings. The transfer of knowledge amongst colleagues may include the exploration of a theory, demonstrations of practice, or a trial of new teaching skills.

5. Inquiry - engage your teachers in discussions that will motivate them to formulate questions about their own practices; more importantly, to pursue answers to those questions. Inquiry has many forms: identification of a problem, research ( data collection and analysis), and changes in practice.

SAT Score - Praxis I Exemption
(Please note that the SAT score can only exempt you from Praxis I not
Praxis II)

To be exempt from taking the Praxis I requirement the following guidelines
must be met:
SAT tests taken after April 1, 1995

Score must be at least 1100
with at least a score of 530 on the Verbal Test and
at least a score of 530 on the Math Test

SAT tests taken before April 1, 1995

Score must be at least 1000 with at least a score of 450 on the Verbal Test and at least a score of 510 on the Math Test

To obtain a copy of your SAT scores you may contact the school where you took your SAT test, your college, or you may contact the SAT Program at
(609)771-7600, or PO Box 6200 Princeton, NJ 08541-6200, or email:

sat@info.collegeboard.org

(Official transcripts indicating SAT scores will also be accepted. Please have official transcripts sent to ISA Dept. of Education, 8333 Richmond Hwy., Alexandria, VA 22309)

Praxis I (Academic Skills ) and Praxis II (Specialty Area, if applicable) tests are required for full Virginia Teacher Licensure unless exemption on the basis that you have completed a minimum of two years of full-time teaching experience in an accredited public or nonpublic school (kindergarten-grade 12) in a state other than Virginia. To be exempt you must have completed a Report on Experience form and returned to the Dept. of Education.

Recently added Certification Highlights:
Foreign Language: American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
(ACTFL) Oral Proficiency Interview and the Writing Proficiency Test approved. A provisional license will be issued until proficiency levels have been established.
www.actfl.org
Language Testing International

Child Abuse Recognition and Training
Child Abuse Training Online Course

**Child Abuse Recognition Training - Effective 7/1/2004 -All initial licensure requests (including new teachers) and license renewals will require a Child Abuse Recognition Training Certificate to be on file with the Personnel Office before your request can be processed and sent to VDOE.

**Virginia Reading Assessment - Effective 01/01/2005- All candidates applying for initial licensure as elementary (Prek-3 or Prek-6) teachers, special education teachers or reading specialists will be required to meet the Virginia Reading Assessment (VRA) requirement. Initial license candidates will be placed on a Provisional or Sp. Ed. Conditional (3 year) License until this requirement has been met.

Virginia Reading Assessment

**All provisionally licensed (3 year license holders) with PreK-3 or PreK-6 endorsements must have the Praxis II Elementary Education: Content Knowledge (0014) requirement met by December 30, 2004.

Virginia statutes require that regularly employed teachers in the private schools hold teaching licenses in accordance with regulations prescribed by the State Board of Education. If an administrative or teaching position has been accepted in Virginia, application must be made through the employing school division or private school.

Virginia Teaching License

• In order to obtain a Virginia Teaching License you must submit the appropriate application (based on the position that you have been hired to teach) and fee, official transcripts and all experience and /or college verification forms directly to the Dept. of Education.
• Please review all forms and instructions carefully.
• It is recommended that you completely read the following information and instructions thru its entirety and then follow the instructions for what best suits your certification status.

If you have never held a Virginia Teaching License you will need to go through the initial license process to be issued a 5- year renewable license if you have met all requirements for licensure or a 3- year non-renewable Provisional License if you are within 6 hours of course work. If you are issued a 3 year non-renewable license you will need to complete all deficiencies within the 3 year period. (You will use the same application for the 5 year or the 3 year license.)

If you currently hold a valid 5 year Virginia Teaching License with an endorsement in the area in which you have been hired to teach then you only need to submit a copy of your license to the Dept. of Education.

If you currently hold an expired 5 year renewable Virginia Teaching License with an endorsement in the area in which you have been hired to teach you will need to go through the process to renew your license.

If you currently hold a valid non-renewable Provisional or Conditional Virginia
Teaching License with an endorsement in the area in which you have been hired to teach then you need to submit a copy of your license and the list of courses needed to be fulfilled to the Department of Education.

If you currently hold an expired non-renewable Provisional or Conditional Virginia Teaching License with an endorsement in the area in which you have been hired to teach then you will need to submit a copy of your expired license, your course fulfillment list, and official transcripts indicating that you have met all coursework to the Department of Education. There is no fee to change from a non-renewable license to a 5-year renewable license.

Renewal of your Virginia Teaching License
Personnel employed by the Islamic Saudi Academy, for whom certification or licensing is required by the State of Virginia are responsible for attaining and maintaining that certification or license as a minimum condition for continued employment.
Renewal requirements are based on a point system in which the license holder must accrue 180 points during their renewal period (this is between the date that the license was issued and the expiration date of the license).

• You must send to the Department of Education the completed Renewal Card for Virginia Teacher License (signed by the Director of Education), $25 fee made payable to Virginia Dept. of Education. Renewal forms should be delivered to the Dept. of Education between Jan 1st and Feb 15th of the year in which your license expires. If you are using college credit towards your renewal, you will need to submit official transcripts with your renewal form.

Process to add an endorsement:
To add an endorsement to your Virginia Teaching License or be evaluated by the Virginia Dept of Education to add an endorsement, you must send the following to the Dept. of Education:

• A letter of request (include status of transcripts, if applicable)
• Official transcripts (pertaining to the endorsement & not on file with
  VDOE)
• Fee of $25 for each added endorsement (with a cap of $50 for more than 2) made payable to V.D.O.E.
• College Verification; and Report on Experience