Winter Professional Development Challenge
Dec. 12, 2024 - Jan. 10, 2025
Wrap up your professional development hours this season!
As a teacher, professional development helps you reflect on your teaching practices, discover different classroom strategies, and build new skills. Now through Jan. 10, 2025, Arkansas teachers have a chance to win an exciting prize package from ArkansasIDEAS. Take all eight of the campaign courses listed below and you can enter!
The challenge runs from Dec. 12, 2024 – Jan. 10, 2025. Upon completion, please send an email, along with your AELS number, to education@myarkansaspbs.org for verification. If you have already completed a course listed prior to the start of the challenge - no worries, you have a head start. Courses may be completed in any order.
Required Campaign Courses
With an extraordinary and constantly growing collection of ADE-approved courses, ArkansasIDEAS provides teachers of Arkansas with free professional development.
| CID | Course Title | Credit Hours |
| ERC24009 | Human Trafficking: Who Are the Victims? | 1 |
| IAG24013 | The Writing Revolution | 1 |
| AHB25002 | Arkansas History Overview | 2 |
| HWB22006 | Grief and Loss: School Community Support | 2.5 |
| ERC23004 | Code of Ethics Part One: Professional Relationships | 0.5 |
| ERC23008 | Code of Ethics Part Five: Reporting Obligations | 0.5 |
| ERC23013 | Code of Ethics Part Ten: Testing Integrity | 0.5 |
| HWC24007 | Let's Talk About Mental Health: Building Strong Relationships for Student Well-Being | 2 |
| TOTAL HOURS REQUIRED | 10 |