Career Ladder hours are available through the Great Teaching Ideas program. Each local Career Ladder committee decides the number of hours teachers may count on a Career Ladder plan using the Great Teaching Ideas activity. Graduate Credit is available with Northwest Missouri State University. One of the two 3-hour courses emphasizes technology integrated with classroom instruction . Teachers are encouraged to submit lessons and units used in their own classrooms.
Subject matter is very flexible.
Coursework is to be saved on a disk or as an e-mail file attachment using Microsoft Word. Directions for saving to a disk are included. Coursework is mailed to Marsha Baclesse at SuccessLink. A committee reviews and chooses the top ten lessons. Winning entries usually are performance-based activities with an assessment and contain all ten components listed on the reverse side.