Program Quality Assessment (PQA) Team Offers Variety of New Asynchronous Courses in The PD Registry

The Program Quality Assessment (PQA) team has released several asynchronous professional development sessions in Pennsylvania's Professional Development (PD) Registry.

• Online Self-Paced: Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale, Third Edition (ECERS-3), event ID# 363916 - Participants will learn how the ECERS-3 scale reflects developmentally appropriate practice, how program observation can be used to support continuous quality improvement, and the ECERS-3’s role as an internal assessment tool. Pre-requisite 101-Foundations, attendance at an ITERS-R, ECERS-R or SACERS prior to July 2007, or completion of the online ITERS-R, ECERS-R, or ECERS-3.

• Online Self-Paced: Foundations of the Environment Rating Scale, event ID# 361128 - Participants will learn how the ERS program observation instruments measure quality and how the ERS program observation instruments are used in PA for continuous quality improvement. This session is a pre-requisite for the ITERS-R, ECERS-R, ECERS-3, or SACERS-U seminars.

• Online Self-Paced: Foundations of the Family Child Care Environment Rating Scale (FCCERS), event ID# 361814 - The session supports Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) planning. Participants will learn about the indicators of quality in family and group home settings, how the FCCERS-R measures quality, and how to use program observation to enhance quality practice. This is a pre-requisite for the FCCERS-R course.

• Online Self-Paced: Pennsylvania Foundations of the Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS), event ID# 361130 - Participants that attend this session will learn how CLASS® measures quality and how CLASS® is currently being used to support continuous quality improvement work in Pennsylvania. This session will be a pre-requisite for the upcoming age specific sessions: Infant CLASS, Toddler CLASS, and PreK-3 CLASS.

• Online Self-Paced: School-Age Care Environment Rating Scale – Updated (SACERS-U), event ID# 361129 - Participants will learn about the indicators of quality in school-age settings, how the scale measures quality, and how to use the scale as a self-assessment tool. Pre-requisite: 101-Foundations of the Environment Rating Scales, attendance at an ITERS-R, ECERS-R or SACERS prior to July 2007, or completion of the online ITERS-R, ECERS-R, or ECERS-3.

Register for these online self-paced PD sessions in the PD Registry.

More PQA professional development (in both English and Spanish) are currently in development for the 2023-2024 program year. Learn more about Program Quality Assessment (PQA) professional development opportunities at pakeys.org/pqa/professional-development.

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