Calculating Professional Development Hours (PDH)

Professional Development Hours (PDH) are the unit of measure used by LA CES to determine the amount of credit a course carries.

Professional development hours (PDH) is the term that LA CES uses to measure how much credit a course carries.

All courses must be at least one PDH in length. One (1) professional development hour is a contact hour of at least fifty (50) minutes of instruction. Additional measures are in fifteen (15) minute increments; therefore, a ninety (90) minute course is one-and-a-half (1.5) professional development hours.

If courses are longer than one (1) hour in duration, time spent on breaks and meals will not count toward the number of hours. Travel time for courses with a travel component is also not counted unless directed learning is taking place on the trip.