
Hawaii Teacher Professional Development
Teachers take Model Teaching courses every year to help them renew their teaching license, advance their salary, or simply to improve their instructional effectiveness. Learn more below about how our professional development and continuing education courses can help you today!
Professional Development for Hawaii Teachers
High-quality, straightforward, and cost-effective online courses (including graduate-level) for Hawaii Teachers. Let us show you have we can help you improve your teaching effectiveness or advance your teaching career.
HOW OUR COURSES WORK
Hawaii Teacher License Renewal & Maintenance Requirements
Teachers utilize Model Teaching courses every year to earn academic credits. All Model Teaching university-partnered courses provide graduate-level semester credit for license renewal or salary advancement purposes depending on your needs. Model Teaching offers university-partnered courses, professional development clock-hour courses, and unique Course Bundle Packs – the most cost-effective way to earn credits, clock hours, and improve your instructional effectiveness through new teaching strategies.
The Hawaii State Department of Education offers several opportunities for Hawaii teachers to obtain professional development training. Please visit the Hawaii State Department of Education to learn more. In order to become a certified teacher in Hawaii, there are several license requirements that must be obtained. We encourage you to read more about those requirements on the Hawaii DOE web site.
Model Teaching offers courses provided through regionally-accredited universities. All courses completed through our academic partners will include access to an official transcript from that academic institution for submission to any license-granting authority. All non-university partnered courses will include a certificate of completion, documenting your earned clock hours with Model Teaching.
If you are taking a Model Teaching course for teaching certificate renewal, we recommend you confirm approval of a course by completing and emailing our Request Course Approval form to the Hawaii State Department of Education or your district prior to enrolling.
REFERENCE: Hawaii State Department of Education
Salary Advancement Information for Teachers
Model Teaching partners with regionally-accredited universities across the country to provide graduate-level courses to thousands of K-12 teachers and educators every year. Generally, school districts across the country provide various salary scale advancement opportunities to teachers that often includes participation in graduate-level professional development. Our university-partnered, graduate-level courses are an excellent and cost-effective way for you to earn the continuing education academic credit you need.

PLEASE NOTE: The content provided on this page does not exempt users from their responsibility to ensure that our courses meet their state or district’s salary advancement policies or requirements. Please check with your district for details regarding your district’s salary advancement policies before enrolling in a course.
*Please refer to the Hawaii State Department of Education web page for the most current information on Hawaii teacher recertification requirements.
PLEASE NOTE: The content provided on this page is solely provided for informational purposes and does not exempt users from their responsibility to ensure that our courses meet their state’s continuing education requirements. Please check with your state certification agency for up-to-date policies for teacher certification renewal/continuing education and use our Request Course Approval form if you want to confirm use of one of our courses for your professional development, continuing education, or clock hour requirements.
