AASSA member schools can provide the option of Buffalo State, SUNY graduate semester credit for professional development offered at your schools. The credits for professional development are regular graduate semester credits. The cost of the credit is $85.00 per graduate semester credit hour. If you are interested in offering credit, please submit a syllabus using the following format of information to Carolyn Brunner at brunnece@buffalostate.edu and our office email address at inlearning@buffalostate.edu :

I. Title of the professional development/workshop
II. Number of proposed graduate semester credits (one credit per 15 hours of instruction)
III. Exact dates and hours of instruction
IV. Brief description (one paragraph)/ purpose of the workshop
V. Objectives
VI. Brief outline of instruction
VII. Required readings
VIII. Evaluation procedures to be used -If you are using a rubric, please include it in this section

Our office must submit the information for approval for credit to the Graduate School at least two weeks prior to the workshop. We change the titles of our professional development/workshop courses each semester, so the exact dates of instruction are very important. If the last session of the course ends by December 1st, it will be a fall semester course (mid August -December). If the last session is May 1st, it will be a spring semester course (January-mid May). If you have any courses scheduled to end later than May 1st, it will be summer semester course (mid May-mid August).

Once a workshop is approved for credit, we will send you a registration form to use for the professional development/workshop credit. Every professional development course has the same course prefix and number, EDU 594.That prefix and number indicates that the credit was earned through participation in a professional development workshop. The registration form will include a generic credit course title that was approved for that semester such as "EDU 594 Effective Strategies for Educators of American/International Schools". Different titles are used for one, two or three-credit offerings and titles are different each semester so please do not use any old registration forms.

Individuals interested in receiving graduate credit will need to submit a completed registration form, payment for the credit, and an unofficial copy of a diploma or transcript verifying the receipt of their undergraduate degree. Host schools should collect these items and submit them in one packet or ask those individuals interested in receiving the credit to submit them on their own by the deadline indicated on the registration form to:

International Graduate Programs for Educators
430 C South Wings
Buffalo State, SUNY
1300 Elmwood Avenue
Buffalo, NY 14222

The requirements for the graduate credit are as follows:

. Attend all of the sessions of the workshop.
. Participate in the workshop activities and complete assignments as directed by the workshop instructor(s).
Schools can add additional requirements for the credit but are not required to do so.

Buffalo State, SUNY also offers the option of graduate credit for the annual AASSA conferences, workshops and other special projects. For more information on professional development for credit or our Master's degree program for overseas educators please contact Carolyn Brunner at brunnece@buffalostate.edu