South Dakota Teacher Professional Development
South Dakota teachers take Model Teaching courses every year to help them renew their teaching license, advance their salary, or simply to improve their instructional effectiveness. Learn more below about how our professional development and continuing education courses can help you today!
Professional Development Courses For South Dakota Teachers
High-quality, straightforward, and cost-effective online courses (including graduate-level) for South Dakota Teachers. Let us show you have we can help you improve your teaching effectiveness, maintain your teaching license, or advance your teaching career.
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South Dakota Teacher License Renewal Requirements
South Dakota teachers utilize Model Teaching courses every year to earn academic credits for license renewal. 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.
Regionally-Accredited Semester Credits
Model Teaching offers great options for South Dakota teachers to earn semester credits from accredited universities in order to renew or maintain their teaching certification.
Be sure to confirm your specific teaching license renewal requirements with your state or local license-granting authority prior to enrolling.
South Dakota teachers must complete 6 education-related credits over a 5-year period to renew their teacher license. Only 3 of these credits must be taken through a regionally-accredited college or university. The remaining 3 credits (45 hours) can be taken through education-related organizations.
One University credit= 15 Professional Development hours.
Model Teaching offers professional development courses as well as university-partnered, academic credit courses provided through regionally-accredited university partners. Both our Non-University Partnered Professional Development, and University-Partnered Academic Credit Courses should meet the requirements for South Dakota teacher license renewal and Professional Development requirements. All courses completed through our academic partners will include access to an official transcript from that academic institution for submission to any license-granting authority. All non-academic professional development courses taken through Model Teaching will include a certificate of completion, documenting your earned credit hours.
If you would like to confirm approval of a course, please feel free to complete and email our Request Course Approval form to the South Dakota Department of Education.
REFERENCE: South Dakota Department of Education
Please refer to our course menu for a listing of graduate-level courses. Within each course page, you will have access to a syllabus that you may download.
Yes, all university-partnered graduate-level courses will include access to an official transcript from the university.
What We Recommended for South Dakota Teachers
Build Your Own Graduate-Level Bundle Pack
Access Our Full University-Partnered Course Menu to Earn Your Required Number of Credits
Includes full access to all graduate-level courses from any of our university partners
Register for any credits package, take any courses until you use all of your credits
Choose from our entire suite of university-partnered courses, work to complete as many as you wish at your own pace
- Course Partners Include: University of the Pacific, Southern New Hampshire University, University of Massachusetts Global, & Valley City State University
All university-partnered courses are regionally-accredited & include an official transcript & letter grade
Great for salary advancement or license renewal
All courses self-paced & accessible for 1 year
Salary Advancement Information for Teachers
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.
PLEASE NOTE: The content provided on this page does not exempt users from their responsibility to ensure that our courses meet their state or district’s salary advancement policies or requirements. Please check with your district for details regarding your district’s salary advancement policies before enrolling in a course.
*The information on this page was last updated 3/2019. Please refer to the South Dakota Department of Education web page for the most accurate and current information on South Dakota teacher re-certification requirements.
PLEASE NOTE: The content provided on this page is solely provided for informational purposes and does not exempt users from their responsibility to ensure that our courses meet their state’s continuing education requirements. Please check with your state certification agency for up-to-date policies for teacher certification renewal/continuing education and use our Request Course Approval form if you want to confirm use of one of our courses for your professional development, continuing education, or clock hour requirements.