Central Iowa Area Health Education Center (CI AHEC) recruits and retains health professionals in under-served areas. Each center teaches children about health care careers, offers clinical training sites for health profession students and supports health care practitioners with continuing education programs. Programming targets three population groups throughout Iowa. - First, AHEC activities foster kindergarten through undergraduate student interest in the pursuit of health care careers.
- Second, health care profession students are provided greater opportunities for clinical experiences in under-served areas.
- Finally, practicing health professionals are provided continuing education opportunities addressing the unique challenges of serving the under-served.
The CI AHEC is conducting a community needs assessment within their catchment area and have a survey for K-12 professionals regarding what programs currently exist and what programs would be beneficial. The CI AHEC would be greatly appreciative if school professionals from the counties of Boone, Dallas, Greene, Guthrie, Jasper, Polk and Story would fill out the pdf form, found by clicking here, and e-mail it to Jill Whitson, Executive Director of the Central Iowa AHEC, at jwhitson@broadlawns.org or mail it to her at the following:
Jill Whitson, Executive Director
Central Iowa AHEC
1801 Hickman Road
Des Moines, IA 50314
Questions about the Community Forum and/or the survey can be directed to Jill Whitson at 515-282-5721 or jwhitson@broadlawns.org.
If your school has summer programs or professional development activities and you would like instructional materials delivered to individual buildings twice a week, contact Sherise Ahlers, sahlers@aea11.k12.ia.us to request summer delivery. Heartland will automatically deliver to each administration building and to extended-year schools twice a week. Summer routes begin June 10, 2009. We will contact the district to arrange for separate, special delivery of large printing orders during the summer.
The Iowa Professional Development Model (IPDM) Technical Guide is now available for use. The Technical Guide replaces the original IPDM Training Manual and the IPDM Administrator’s Guide. The new version of the IPDM Guide includes information on the Student Achievement and Teacher Quality Act (2007) and connections to the Iowa Core Curriculum. Input from Iowa practitioners was used to make the document more concise and useful to district leadership teams.
The Iowa Department of Education (DE) recommends that local education agency (LEA) administrators, district and school leadership teams, Teacher Quality Committees, area education agency (AEA) administrators and AEA Leadership teams study the IPDM guide and use it as a tool for guiding professional development planning and decision making.
The guide will be very beneficial for developing the Iowa Core Curriculum Implementation Plan. This plan includes the outcome, ―Educators engage in professional development focused on implementing Characteristics of Effective Instruction and demonstrate understanding of Essential Concepts and Skill Sets.
This guide may be reprinted and posted on Web sites for use in Iowa education programs. The document is also available on the DE's Web site at http://www.iowa.gov/educate/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=232&Itemid=1286#pddocuments.
