Review PECS Book 2018 for full details–below for the key elements.
Get enough professional development: average 15 contact hours or 1 semester hour of college work per year
- Contact hours (in general)
- At least 10 of the contact hours must be live training (including livestreamed) from other (credible) organizations
- Up to 5 (annual average) may be non-live training or in-house training*
- Contact hours (additional considerations)
- *When someone has presented a session for another organization (e.g., SCACS), that session is considered as external even when they present it during training at their own school.
- A session leader receives twice the contact hour credit for each session presented.
- Sessions such as CPR count only for PE teachers and coaches.
- MinistrySafe training counts only once for this purpose even though BJA requires a regular review of that training.
- Extra hours completed during a certification period? Up to 15 contact hours from one period may be used for the next one instead.
Keep the documentation
- CEU training certificates from training/convention
- Note: For conventions, when you have a training certificate for the full convention, you can put the full training event on your log without listing sessions separately (e.g., SCACS 2023, 10 CEU’s …).
- Updated college transcript (original from college)
- BJA PD: When the title includes “BJA PD,” list each training on your log, but you won’t submit a training certificate. (PECS is using their documentation of their approvals for our sessions in lieu of having teachers submitting training certificates.)
Keep a log of that documented PD
Renew on time
- See details in PECS Book 2018
- BJA helps and pays for the initial certification; faculty/staff handle and pay for their own renewal. [Use slow mail or call 803-798-7558 to pay over the phone using your credit card and to arrange to email PDF’s.]
- When not renewed before expiration
- Late fee applies
- If expired for more than a year, additional contact hours/college credits are required for recertification
BJA’s PD (to add to your personal log)
Specific questions about your situation? Contact South Carolina Association of Christian School directly
Email or call Kendra Meyer, who manages the PECS program
803-798-7558
South Carolina Association of Christian Schools
615 St. Andrews Road
Columbia, SC 29210