DESE allows teachers to apply for Competency Review in order to become certified in DLCS PreK-6. The competency review process is described in detail on DESE’s website. See the Competency Review Guide.
CSforMA offers three workshops that, all together, cover the 12 Subject Matter Requirements (SMKs) required for PreK-6 Competency Review. After a person completes each course through CSforMA, they can request a Letter of Attestation for that course that lists the SMKs covered.
It is perfectly fine to just take one or two of the courses. We intend to offer these three courses at least once each year.
The CSforMA courses are:
- Building Research Competency: (1.5 days, 10 hours total) SMK #5
- One SMK, 10 hours: SMK #5
- 1 day in-person + 2-hour virtual follow up
- PreK-6 Digital Literacy: (5 days, 40 hours total)
- Four SMKs, 40 hours, SMK #1, #2, #3, #4
- 5 days in-person, summer
- PreK-6 Computer Science Part 1 & Part 2 (9 days, 70 hours total)
- Seven SMKs, 70 hours: #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11, #12
- 5 days in-person (40 hours), summer
- 4 days in-person (30 hours), fall: October 25-26 AND December 6-7 (Register here)
The CSforMA PD page shows the dates and times for each of these courses. Anyone hoping to receive a Letter of Attestation for a course must attend all of the sessions that are part of the course.