Sheltered English Immersion:

Professional Development and PDPs for Re-Licensure

Question: What kind of PDPs can each of the categories of SEI

professional development count for when a teacher (elementary or secondary) applies for re-licensure?

Answer: Category 1: Could count as content-related, pedagogy or

elective PDPs for elementary teachers. It could count as

pedagogy or elective PDPs for secondary teachers.

Category 2: Could count as content-related, pedagogy or elective PDPs for both elementary and secondary teachers.

Category 3: Could count as pedagogy or elective PDPs for both

elementary and secondary teachers.

Category 4: Elementary, early childhood, and moderate

special needs teachers (and any others who take the Foundations

of Reading test as part of their licensure requirements), can count

category 4 as content-related PDPs. Secondary teachers can

count these as either pedagogy or elective PDPs.

Source: Massachusetts Department of Education, Office of Language Acquisition and Academic Achievement

Publication: “Guidelines for Agencies Providing Sheltered English

Immersion (SEI) Professional Development for Content

Teachers of English Language Learners” (April 2006)