We the members of the Coalition of Newly
Recruited Graduate Teachers wish to express our disappointment and discontent in the government over the non-payment of our salary arrears and delay in payment of salaries for the month of April 2017.
COALITION OF NEWLY
RECRUITED GRADUATE TEACHERS OF GHANA 30th April, 2017.
Not exact matches
A group, known as the Unemployed
Graduate Teachers» Association has given the government a two - week ultimatum to
recruit its members or have them embark on series of demonstrations.
The Upper West regional branch of the National Association of
Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) has given government up to the 30th of April to rescind its directive to pay only three months of arrears to newly recruited teachers, those on promotion as well as teachers on react
Teachers (NAGRAT) has given government up to the 30th of April to rescind its directive to pay only three months of arrears to newly
recruited teachers, those on promotion as well as teachers on react
teachers, those on promotion as well as
teachers on react
teachers on reactivation.
Teach First is one of the largest
graduate recruiters in the UK,
recruiting around 1,400
teachers each year, equivalent to one in twenty of all new
teachers in England and Wales.
Children and young people are being short changed by this government as they can not receive their entitlement to high quality education when talented
teachers are leaving and potential
recruits can find jobs in other
graduate occupations which recognise and better reward their talents.»
Teachers in Finland are well - trained and highly respected, and
recruited from the top 10 % of
graduates.
He wants a new
Teacher Service Scholarship program to «cover four years of undergraduate or two years of graduate teacher education» and includes «alternative programs for mid-career recruits in exchange for teaching for at least four years in a high - need field or location.
Teacher Service Scholarship program to «cover four years of undergraduate or two years of
graduate teacher education» and includes «alternative programs for mid-career recruits in exchange for teaching for at least four years in a high - need field or location.
teacher education» and includes «alternative programs for mid-career
recruits in exchange for teaching for at least four years in a high - need field or location.»
So for YES Prep, the priority is
recruiting, developing, and retaining
teachers who are committed to doing «whatever it takes» (the YES Prep motto) to prepare students to
graduate from a four - year college.
* Just 70 % of the required number of computer science
teachers have been
recruited and 13 % of computer
graduates are still unemployed 6 months after leaving university.
This means that the majority of
graduates recruited for preparation courses starting in September 2015 will be available for work as
teachers from September 2016.
The organization, which
recruits recent college
graduates to teach for two years in inner - city and rural public schools with shortages of credentialed
teachers, has raised only $ 3.8 million of its $ 7 million budget for this year, TFA officials said last month.
In countries such as Finland, Singapore and South Korea,
teachers are
recruited from the most qualified
graduates, are highly trained, respected and paid well.
The TAP handle the whole process, from sourcing, screening and
recruiting graduates for shortage subjects (including STEM), supporting schools to access available apprenticeship levy funding and delivering a 1 year programme which guides apprentices towards Qualified
Teacher Status.
The need for
teachers in every school in every part of the country creates challenges for
recruiting teachers to areas with few college
graduates.
There are public schools and charter schools serving some of the most disadvantaged students in the country, and yet they are
recruiting great
teachers, making the curriculum more rigorous, using data to see what works, and
graduating students ready for college.
«Great
teachers help unlock children's talents and Teach First is already playing a key role by
recruiting top
graduates with the potential to become excellent
teachers in some of our most challenging schools.
In suburban Minneapolis, Intermediate School District 287, a consortium of 13 independent school districts, is solving the problem by
recruiting and training noncertified college
graduates as substitute
teachers.
In San Francisco, which has a well - established residency program
recruiting math, science and elementary bilingual
teachers, 97 percent of
graduates are still in teaching, and 80 percent have remained in the district for at least five years.
And as the student population continues to grow more racially, ethnically, and linguistically diverse, the
teacher workforce remains overwhelmingly white.3 Research shows, however, that students of color benefit from having
teachers with whom they share the same race or ethnicity, 4 and white students benefit from having nonwhite
teachers as well.5 In order to increase the number of
teacher candidates of color enrolling in and
graduating from
teacher preparation programs, several states are developing initiatives to intentionally
recruit high - achieving people of color into the teaching profession.
[3] «Who Stays in Teaching and Why: A Review of the Literature on
Teacher Retention,» Harvard
Graduate School of Education, February 2005; «Greenhouse Schools: How Schools Can Build Cultures Where Students and
Teachers Thrive,» TNTP, March 2012; «
Recruiting and Retaining
Teachers: What Matters Most and What Government Can Do,» Linda Darling Hammond, Accessed 4/26/16.
Teach First — which
recruits university
graduates with 2:1 degrees or above — exclusively sent its
teachers to London schools when it was set up in 2002.
The purpose of the use of such funds is to
recruit and prepare individuals who do not
graduate from state - approved
teacher preparation programs to teach in a Florida public school.
The Teaching Apprenticeship Programme (TAP) makes it easy for schools to use their apprenticeship levy to
recruit, train and retain the best
graduates as home - grown
teachers.
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.
In November, we joined Xavier University, Loyola University, Teach For America, teachNOLA / TNTP, and the Relay
Graduate School of Education to announce a collaborative effort to
recruit and train 900 new
teachers by 2021.
Through the 12 month apprenticeship route, TAP enables schools to
recruit, train and retain the best
graduates as home - grown
teachers.
Other high - performing nations
recruit teachers from the top third of college
graduates.
With this knowledge,
graduate programs in education need to become more focused on offering specialty
graduate programs that address these needs, promote these teaching areas and
recruit teachers in other content areas to these areas.
With Teach for America, which places high - achieving college
graduates into low - income schools for two years, as one of the featured partners in the
recruiting coalition, Dennis Van Roekel, president of the National Education Association, the nation's largest
teachers union, emphasized the importance of a career - long commitment.
The unions note the STRB's view «that uncompetitive
teacher pay, in a strong labour market with increasing opportunities for
graduates, makes it a difficult environment in which to
recruit and retain high quality
graduates as
teachers.
Today, more than a quarter of the instructors are from Teach for America, a national
teacher training program that
recruits college
graduates from around the U.S.
We
recruit talented college
graduates and career changers that have the WILL and DESIRE to transform urban education through teaching; and provide them with the tailored preparation and training new
teachers need to make an immediate impact within urban schools and urban classrooms.
Principals in that district determined their hiring needs and began
recruiting early, working with local universities to connect
graduates of
teacher preparation programs with schools that have openings.
The Kansas City
Teacher Residency (KCTR) is a teacher preparation and development program that recruits and selects college seniors, recent college graduates, and career changers who are interested in entering the field of edu
Teacher Residency (KCTR) is a
teacher preparation and development program that recruits and selects college seniors, recent college graduates, and career changers who are interested in entering the field of edu
teacher preparation and development program that
recruits and selects college seniors, recent college
graduates, and career changers who are interested in entering the field of education.
Over the next couple of years, Los Angeles will see an influx of more than 700
teachers from Teach for America, a non-profit that
recruits college
graduates, trains them, and places them in public schools across the country.
In a memo last month to LA Unified Superintendent Ramon Cortines, a human resources officer said
recruiting diverse
teacher candidates from colleges and universities around California «will continue to be a challenge especially as Latino and African American college
graduate data remain unrepresented.»
Work with
teacher training institutions and state agencies to
recruit more
teachers from the top third of high school
graduates.
Through Caminos, IDRA
recruits, prepares, places and retains highly qualified mid-career professionals and recent
graduates as
teachers with extensive personalized and online mentoring and support to ensure success and retention in the teaching profession.
Existing
teachers were interviewed for teaching positions in the iCAN model and new
teachers were
recruited in close partnership with the local university's undergraduate and
graduate education programs.
The report also urges that teaching be treated as a quality profession on par with other jobs, so Utah has begun raising
teacher salaries to
recruit top college
graduates.
Teaching alternatives: As more
teachers retire and fewer are
graduating from education schools, some districts that struggle to
recruit teachers fill the gaps with technology.
The federal court also ruled that TFA
recruits should not be concentrated in districts of high poverty and high disadvantage, where children actually need «highly qualified»
teachers, not young college
graduates with five weeks to training.
Undergraduate and
graduate preparation programs — and the institutions of higher education that house them — should dedicate more resources to finding and
recruiting diverse, high - achieving individuals with great potential to succeed as
teachers.
Rather than
graduating from a traditional
teacher preparation college, TFA
recruits complete five weeks of training and become certified through the state's Alternate Route to Certification program, administrators said.
Teach for America's mission is to
recruit, select, train and support outstanding recent college
graduates to serve as highly qualified and effective
teachers in urban schools.»
The idea was to send top college
graduates to inner - city and rural schools that have historically struggled to
recruit and retain quality
teachers.
The government offers tax - free training bursaries of # 20,000 or above for language
graduates, but so far, training providers have
recruited fewer than half the number of
teachers needed for 2016/17.
General accessibility is another aspect of alternative
teacher certification programs that helps
recruit a high - percentage of Yale
graduates.
The report calls on the government to champion the «fantastic and inspiring work» done by existing
teachers - but also to do more to
recruit the best
graduates into the profession.