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Yes.The Department intends to acknowledge and honor the effort, commitment, and accomplishments of educators who completed category trainings 1, 2, and 4. [Note: category training #3 is related to administration of the MELA-O and is not an integral component of SEI instruction.] Educators who have completed two or more of these trainings will not be required to complete the full course of study approved by the Department to qualify for an SEI Endorsement. Instead, they will be able to qualify for the endorsement by completing a subset of the course that covers only the proposed new knowledge and practice standards that were not addressed by the category trainings they completed. A final draft syllabus for the model SEI Endorsement course will be ready in the near future. At that time, the Department will be able to provide more details regarding the "gap" between what was already covered by category trainings and the new model course.
August 31, 2012. The Department originally indicated that all category trainings should end no later than June 30, 2012, based upon U.S. Education Department (USED) findings related to Title III funding. However, a recent Department survey completed by many districts revealed the following: