Continuing Education Units. For the duration of this contract, Continuing Education Unit (CEU) credits will be awarded to staff members participating in Board of Education approved courses, workshops, programs conducted in the Point Pleasant Schools after school hours or on days when school is not in session in accordance with the following guidelines. a. Fifteen contact hours will be required for each CEU credit. b. CEU credits will be treated as approved courses for inservice increments as described in paragraph C. l. of the above. Continuing education units may be accumulated in any year of the four year incremental period to be applied using the method described in paragraph C. l.. c. A committee consisting of three teachers, appointed by the Association, and three administrators, appointed by the superintendent, shall review proposals for courses, workshops and programs to be offered in the Point Pleasant Schools and recommended for CEU credit. The committee will make appropriate recommendations to the Board of Education through the superintendent. d. The Board of Education shall retain the right to accept or reject recommendations submitted by the committee. e. Teachers involved in Board approved summer workshops who otherwise might be paid may elect to receive CEU credit in lieu of payment for the work. f. CEU certificates shall be awarded to participants who successfully complete courses, workshops, and other programs offered as a part of the district’s staff development efforts in the Point Pleasant Schools. g. Undergraduate courses may count as CEU's if the superintendent requires or recommends attendance of any individual teacher. h. Should the CEU program be discontinued, the Board and the Association will negotiate, on behalf of individual staff members, an equitable compensation for those credits already earned short of the required forty- five hours but which have not yet been applied to the in-service increment process. i. Advanced Placement teachers or Advanced Placement teacher designees will receive a $200.00 in-service increment upon completion of a full week graduate AP preparation course recommended and approved by the superintendent and in accordance with paragraph C. x. x. If an individual staff member has already reached the maximum of one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) or five (5) increments and they are recommended and approved to enroll in an Advanced Placement preparation course, they may earn a sixth increment. k. If the university grants graduate credits for advanced placement, and the teacher pays to matriculate, these credits may also be used as graduate credits to be applied toward an MA or MA+30. l. The Athletic Trainer may accrue CEU's for attending seminars, clinics, symposiums, and workshops as approved by the Superintendent who shall distinguish between course work for continued certification units and course work which adds to current skills or as are needed for continuing certification.
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