ADEPT Training
Pickens County School District


ADEPT is a statewide system of integrated performance-based standards, guidelines,
and strategies designed to promote excellence in the teaching profession.

Specifically, the ADEPT system

• establishes state standards (Performance Dimensions) that redefine and upgrade the expectations for
  what all South Carolina teachers should know and be able to do as competent and effective professionals;
   

• provides teacher education programs with a framework for collaborating with school districts to design
  and implement innovative models for assisting and evaluating student teachers;
   

• provides school districts with a framework for developing induction programs to assist novice teachers
  during their first (induction contract) year of teaching;
   

• provides school districts with a framework for selecting and/or developing valid, reliable evaluation models,
  based on state standards and guidelines, to formally evaluate teachers at the provisional, annual,
  and continuing contract levels;
   

• includes an optional assessment process (i.e., TEAM) that school districts may elect to use to conduct
  formal evaluations of provisional, annual, and continuing contract teachers,
   

• provides school districts with a framework for promoting the continuous professional growth of
  continuing contract teachers through Goals-Based Evaluation (GBE) programs.
  
  From South Carolina Division of Educator Quality and Leadership website

I took ADEPT training for Pickens County School District for an elective class.
This course required meetings on June 9, June 13 - 16, and June 20, 2005,  
All successful participants became certified ADEPT Evaluators and Mentors.
Sybil Humphries and Michael Fleming were the instructors who taught an in depth study of the performance
standards and procedures of the ADEPT Team Model.

I enjoyed taking this course because it helped me to evaluate my own teaching styles and methods.
Mrs. Humphries and Mr. Fleming were wonderful instructors in this course.
Their dedication, enthusiasm and knowledge of the ADEPT model made the course very rewarding.
I also enjoyed observing the first grade teacher who did an excellent job during the school year.

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