Sentences with phrase «alternative teaching certification programs»

Alternative teaching certification programs are also available for graduates and professionals who have a bachelor's degree in a non-education field and want to make a career change.

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When Miriam Wahl finishes her path to alternative certification through North Carolina State University's NC TEACH program later this year, she'll bring 27 years of research experience into the classroom, gained as a postdoc at the Wistar Institute and Thomas Jefferson University, as an assistant professor at Duke University, and as a microscopy specialist at Johns Hopkins University.

NC TEACH is similar to other university - based alternative certification programs.

QC 2001 does, however, assign points to states that require at least 12 weeks of practice teaching as part of a preparation program — not necessarily a bad thing, but limiting for states and districts that are experimenting with programs such as Teach for America and alternative pathways to certification.

California, where thousands teachers are either working with emergency licenses or teaching outside their fields of expertise, has set up a network of alternative - certification programs in its drive to train more teachers.

The offending regulation provides that teachers enrolled in «alternative routes» to certification — which is government - speak for Teach For America and similar programs — may be found qualified if they are making satisfactory progress.

This tends to lock in the professionalism agenda while rendering states markedly less hospitable to alternative certification, subject - centered preparation programs, and kindred reforms of teaching.

Furthermore, with the proliferation of alternative certification and programs like Teach for America, the practice of hiring teachers without formal degrees in education or classroom experience is fairly well established.

Houston's alternative certification program, which brings people from nontraditional backgrounds into teaching and prepares them to succeed in the classroom, is a model for the rest of the country.

Even in states that appear to offer a bypass around certification, these alternative programs are structured so that retrofitting - taking education coursework while teaching - is almost always required.

Of the alternative certification programs the NCTQ surveyed for a 2007 report, only one - third require a summer teaching practicum and one - quarter provide weekly mentoring for teachers once the school year starts.

Carol Midgett, leadership - program coordinator at the North Carolina Partnership for Improving Mathematics and Science and also a board - certified teacher who entered teaching through alternative certification, says she learned that «without focused, formal preparation, the challenge to succeed is much greater and the chances for survival are limited.»

Freitag soon discovered The Fairfax Transition to Teaching Partnership, an alternative certification program based at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Students spend one year interning at a Fairfax County (Virginia) public school — substituting, observing, assisting teachers, and working with students one - on - one and in small groups — and take summer and evening courses required for certification.

Anita Scovanner Ramsey, director of the Fairfax Transition to Teaching Partnership, agrees that alternative certification programs can help remedy the shortage of teachers in certain disciplines and from certain ethnic groups.

Feldman expressed support for «good alternative certification programs that bring talented career changers into teaching» but emphasized that alternative certification is a slippery slope.

Like alternative certification programs, ACE considers the teachers» classroom immersion their teaching practicum, granting eight credits for an ongoing class called Supervised Tteaching practicum, granting eight credits for an ongoing class called Supervised TeachingTeaching.

But regulations put forth by the Education Department in 2002 allow uncertified candidates in alternative - route programs to teach for up to three years while seeking certification.

Teacher recruitment: The DOE further developed an alternative certification program (the Teaching Fellows program) and altered its recruitment efforts, its selection model, and the timing of offers for teachers.

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Alternative - route programs vary widely in their approach, but a defining feature is that participants begin teaching before completing certification requirements.

The prestige of TFA, whose recruits famously receive just five weeks of training, has arguably helped open the doors to alternative - certification programs for teachers, such as TNTP (formerly The New Teacher Project), Americorps National Teaching Fellows, and others.

Teach for America was not the first, nor the only, alternative - certification program for teachers.

The district is also hitting up other alternative certification programs including Teach for America and Troops to Teachers.

He is earning his teaching certificate through an online, for - profit alternative certification program, a nontraditional route to teaching that is becoming more common in Texas.

Those changes have made the city fertile ground for the expansion of alternative - certification programs like Teach for America and Teach Memphis, according to Athena Turner, the executive director of Teach for America in Memphis.

Kincannon went through a college education program, while Puracken first taught provisionally and then earned an alternative certification.

TNTP Teaching Fellows is a rigorous alternative certification program that recruits and trains talented career changers and recent college graduates to be outstanding teachers in high - need schools across the country.

Many CMOs accomplish more diverse hiring by partnering with alternative certification programs such as Teach for America and the Relay Graduate School of Education.

Effective Teacher Fellowship (ETF), HISD's Alternative Certification Program (ACP) for novice teachers, is dedicated to recruiting individuals from non-educational backgrounds and careers who are passionate about students and teaching and learning.

Responding to a calling to teach, Grant became an Arizona Teaching Fellows, an alternative certification program sponsored by The New Teacher Project.

It is commonly agreed that the number of alternative certification programs competing with Teach for America is high and becoming higher across the US.

None of the current teachers are likely to leave what are considered plum jobs and besides, none of the group members have chosen to become teachers through Teach For America or another alternative certification program.

Anyone with a bachelor's degree who has completed an alternative teacher certification program and has passed a background check also could receive a teaching license under the plan.

For instance, the number of alternative certification programs, that offer a teaching license without completing a traditional teacher certification program, and their graduates have skyrocketed since the Bush administration first published their America 2000 educational strategic plan, widely promoting their use to meet the growing need for certified teachers.

For people who have a bachelor's degree in something other than education, alternative certification is available and requires one year of teaching while going through the program before being eligible to earn a Professional Certificate.

Some enter classrooms after only a few weeks of review in an alternative certification program and then begin work on master's degrees while teaching.

The state has created only five alternative certification routes other than the traditional method of certification at an undergraduate university or college: Alternative One requires a program of professional preparation in education along with a chairperson recommendation, Alternative Two is open for certified teachers from other states, Alternative Three requires a written exam and oral review, Alternative Four requires superintendent recruitment for teaching in high - need areas, and Alternative Five is an on - the - job training option that nevertheless requires a Bacheloalternative certification routes other than the traditional method of certification at an undergraduate university or college: Alternative One requires a program of professional preparation in education along with a chairperson recommendation, Alternative Two is open for certified teachers from other states, Alternative Three requires a written exam and oral review, Alternative Four requires superintendent recruitment for teaching in high - need areas, and Alternative Five is an on - the - job training option that nevertheless requires a BacheloAlternative One requires a program of professional preparation in education along with a chairperson recommendation, Alternative Two is open for certified teachers from other states, Alternative Three requires a written exam and oral review, Alternative Four requires superintendent recruitment for teaching in high - need areas, and Alternative Five is an on - the - job training option that nevertheless requires a BacheloAlternative Two is open for certified teachers from other states, Alternative Three requires a written exam and oral review, Alternative Four requires superintendent recruitment for teaching in high - need areas, and Alternative Five is an on - the - job training option that nevertheless requires a BacheloAlternative Three requires a written exam and oral review, Alternative Four requires superintendent recruitment for teaching in high - need areas, and Alternative Five is an on - the - job training option that nevertheless requires a BacheloAlternative Four requires superintendent recruitment for teaching in high - need areas, and Alternative Five is an on - the - job training option that nevertheless requires a BacheloAlternative Five is an on - the - job training option that nevertheless requires a Bachelor's degree.

Some of the options other than academies that are available to fund are teacher residency programs, induction programs, improving equitable access to a diverse teaching staff and effective teachers, integrating technology into the curriculum and instruction, and — yes — even establishing, expanding, or improving alternative routes to certification.

Although many states now staff their schools with teachers prepared through alternative certification routes, there is a growing concern about the quality and relevance of the programs to produce excellent teachers, especially teachers to serve the teaching fields with the most needs — math, science, special education and English as a second language and bilingual education.

Those interested in teaching who have earned a bachelor's degree but did not complete an approved teacher preparation program may be eligible for alternative teacher certification in Washington DC.

Some alternative certification programs, such as at Butler University and Purdue North Central, do not require any student teaching.

IDRA has established effective alternative certification programs through three Transitions to Teaching projects funded under the No Child Left Behind Act.

Professionals with a bachelor's degree in other areas can fill some of these teaching jobs by transitioning into teaching through alternative certification programs.

But Senator Bernie Sanders's (I - VT) proposal to add some teeth to the bill's highly qualified teacher provisions by requiring districts to provide mentoring and professional development to teachers who have not completed a state - approved teacher preparation program and obtained full certification was rejected out of concerns that it would harm Teach For America and other alternative certification programs.

On top of the flexibility created by last year's alternative certification law, CSP's bill would give charters where at least half of students are impoverished the ability to hire teachers who are licensed in other states and those who have completed alternative licensure programs in other states and taught for at least two years in high - poverty schools.

SAT scores and GPAs are important measures of the academic abilities of incoming prospective teachers, but they are only moderate predictors of later teaching performance.13 Both teacher preparation programs and alternative certification programs are beginning to search for other traits and dispositions that may be better predictors of teachers» abilities to drive student learning once in the classroom.

There are two ways to become certified to teach in Florida — complete a bachelor's degree in an education program or complete an alternative certification route.

Most alternative certification programs offer little or no student teaching.8

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«The Board of Teaching must issue a standard license to an otherwise qualified teacher candidate under this section who successfully performs throughout a program under this section, successfully completes all required skills, pedagogy and content area examinations,» and either demonstrates proficiency to a site - based evaluation team or completed an alternative certification program in another state.