(a) As a condition of continued employment every person employed as a teacher assistant shall participate in ongoing professional development.
(b) Each school district or institution employing teacher assistants shall maintain records on a teacher assistant’s completion of:
(1) Training for the work assignment;
(2) Continuing education and relevant coursework;
(3) For any person hired after January 1, 1999, a certificate of completion from a training program which complied with the teaching assistant training program standards developed by the department of elementary and secondary education pursuant to § 16-11.2-1; and/or
(4) The requirements set forth in § 16-11.2-2(4).