High-quality, straightforward, and cost-effective online courses (including graduate-level) for Colorado Teachers. Let us show you have we can help you improve your teaching effectiveness, maintain your teaching license, or advance your teaching career.

HOW OUR COURSES WORK

All Model Teaching university-partnered courses provide graduate-level semester credit for license renewal or salary advancement purposes. You may choose any Model Teaching university-partnered courses of interest or enroll in one of our Course Bundle Packs – the most cost-effective way to earn credits.

Model Teaching offers great options for Colorado teachers to earn semester credits from accredited universities in order to renew or maintain their teaching certification.

Acceptable Graduate-Level Semester Credits From Our University Partners:

The Colorado Department of Education (CDE) requires teachers to complete 6 semester hours of college credit or 90 clock hours of professional development training to renew an expired teaching certification. Current teachers must receive 6 semester hours of college credit or 90 clock hours of professional development activities every 7 years in order to maintain certification.

Clock hours can be earned through computer-based courses as long as they “enhance your professional growth and can be related to one or more of the Teacher/SSP or Principal quality standards” outlined by the Colorado department of education.

We encourage course participants to review the Colorado Department of Education requirements here: http://www.cde.state.co.us/cdeprof/Licensure_institutions.asp to confirm their requirements.

REFERENCE: Colorado Department of Education

From the Colorado Department of Education Regarding Accepted Course Credit for Clock Hour Courses:

Offering Professional Development, Training or Continuing Education Units (CEUs)

Model Teaching’s evaluation of the CDE’s requirements suggested CDE may accept our regular clock-hour PD courses as well as graduate level course work offered through our university partners.  Model Teaching’s awarded certificates for PD courses do meet the CDEs requirements (see below).  This is a recent policy change by CDE, so please confirm this with CDE if you wish to use our PD courses in lieu of our university-partnered courses.

CDE does not pre-approve CEUs, training or professional development workshops, conferences or in-services. There is such a wide variety of professional development that is supportive of our teachers that we simply find it impossible to approve all of it. We leave it very much to the individual educator to know what is best for them and upon submission of the renewal, the educator must clearly indicate how the professional development meets their specific endorsement areas and what educational standards it addresses. Upon evaluation, if there appears to be a mismatch between professional development activities and an educator’s needs, a formal audit will be conducted.

Any entity that holds the professional development/training/in-service should issue a certificate or letter to participants that specifically states the following, and we will accept it for renewal credit if it is applicable to the educator’s license:

• applicant’s name
• date of the workshop, conference or in-service
• name of the workshop, conference or in-service
• contact/clock hours earned (see below for more information)
• representative’s signature

Source: https://www.cde.state.co.us/cdeprof/professional_nextsteps

Model Teaching partners with regionally-accredited universities across the country to provide graduate-level courses to thousands of K-12 teachers and educators every year. Generally, school districts across the country provide various salary scale advancement opportunities to teachers that often includes participation in graduate-level professional development. Our university-partnered, graduate-level courses are an excellent and cost-effective way for you to earn the continuing education academic credit you need.