Continuing Education Units (CEU) & Professional Development Credits (100 Hrs): If you wish to earn CEU's or 100 hour credit for an ETTC workshop, you must be present and participate actively in all the scheduled sessions. ETTC instructors may, when extenuating circumstances warrant, make application to the ETTC Coordinator for exceptions to this rule. At the Coordinator's discretion, the certificate and any credit will be withheld for any absence or lack of an appropriate level of participation.

The ETTC is a Registered Provider (#226) with the State DOE. It's important to remember, however, that your home district has the final say when giving recognition for work done for CEU's and towards satisfying the100 hour PD program. While the ETTC will provide a certificate of your participation, how your school district responds to it is strictly a function of local contractual agreements.

The ETTC reserves the right to cancel workshops when registrations fall below the minimums needed to support the event. Should a cancellation occur, regardless of cause, registered participants will be notified by telephone and/or electronic mail. Additional notification will be made via the Hunterdon ETTC web site.

All ETTC classes will be canceled in the event that the building is closed. Participants will be notified by their instructor regarding rescheduling.

A separate registration sheet must be filled out for each workshop you wish to attend. Registrations will be accepted in the order in which they are received. You may photocopy the attached Registration Form as many times as needed. Unless other, written agreements have been made with the ETTC Coordinator, full payment must accompany your registration. All payments should be mailed to: HCRHS ETTC • 84 Route 31• Flemington, New Jersey 08822

Call Gail Berarov at 908-284-7212. You may write using the address above or by electronic mail to gberarov@hcrhs.k12.nj.us.

The Hunterdon County Educational Technology Training Center (ETTC) is a unique and practical training program designed to meet the changing roles of and increased demands on K-12 teachers for the 21st century. Each course is flexible so that the experience level and specific needs of each participant are accommodated. Courses are developed and taught by "front-line" professionals who utilize the applications and strategies regularly in their work. In addition to a variety of course offerings, the ETTC can provide specially designed training, technical assistance and support for each school district in Hunterdon County.

The focus of the ETTC training program is for K-12 classroom teachers, however, all of the computer basics, word-processing/databasing, multimedia and special interest offerings are appropriate for anyone with an interest and access to the specific software. The variety of Internet courses, including those designed for teachers, will relate the "information highway" to its widespread application in our lives.

In a concerted effort to prepare New Jersey teachers for the 21st century classroom, the state of New Jersey established a competitive grant program and Educational Technology Training Centers in each of the state's 21 counties. County ETTC coordinators form a core of experts to ensure that teachers from the northern-most to the southern-most ends of the state are provided with training programs and activities which will ultimately allow every student in the state equal access to technology, distance learning, and preparation for achieving New Jersey's Core Curriculum Content Standards. Ultimately, the entire state of New Jersey will have access to these distance learning educational opportunities.

The Hunterdon County Educational Training Center provides the following services to Hunterdon County school districts. More than 100 training programs and workshops related to the following categories are offered.

• Computer Basics
• Word-processing/Databasing
• Internet
• Multimedia
• Teaching Strategies
• On-line staff developement training courses
• New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards
• Design and development of district distance learning plans
• Special interest

Hunterdon County districts can request specialized on-site training, technical assistance and support. Additionally, Hunterdon County districts can develop training programs which will be supported through the Educational Technology Training Center if they are available and open to other Hunterdon County teachers. There is also an array of educational software which can be reviewed and explored.

The Hunterdon County ETTC Office serves as an advisory council to ensure that county staff development needs are met through the ETTC programs. The ETTC website links to the twenty other ETTCs throughout the state of New Jersey, ensuring that the most up-to-date and emerging technologies and training related to those technologies are available to Hunterdon County teachers.

The national focus on school reform has been modeled at Hunterdon Central Regional High School. The cornerstone to that reform is the commitment to staff development and training supported by the Hunterdon Central Academy for Continual Development. The Academy began in the spring of 1995 with one course, Cooperative Learning, team-taught by two Hunterdon Central teachers. That concept grew in two years to 100 course offerings.

Building upon the success of the Hunterdon Central Academy for Continual Development, the opportunities afforded through the Hunterdon County Educational Technology Training center have provided increased educational reform activities throughout Hunterdon County and the state, based on well-trained teachers prepared to meet the challenges of education in the 21st century. The future of the Hunterdon County ETTC is telecommunications. Just as classroom activities have been shared via telecommunications, lifelong learning activities will become the norm using telecommunications to extend the capabilities of the ETTC.