In its design and goals, the fellowship clearly differs from Teach for America, the 25 - year - old highly selective program that recruits college seniors on elite campuses such as Harvard, gives them five weeks of training and places them in two - year teaching jobs in some of the most
challenging classrooms across the country.
Not exact matches
The program — for and about teachers — will focus on the most important
challenges and opportunities facing America's teachers, and feature examples of great teaching from various schools and
classrooms across the
country.
If the new tests assess knowledge in ways that demand mastery of sequenced domain knowledge, sophisticated vocabulary, rich content, and cross-disciplinary learning, educators
across the
country would have a much greater incentive to bring
challenging content into their
classrooms and thus realize the implicit promise of the new standards.
In central Louisiana, as in many rural, high - poverty areas
across the
country, just getting qualified teachers into
classrooms is a
challenge.
More importantly, you'll be able to connect with more than 33,000 Fellows
across the
country to share resources, talk through
challenges and discuss important education issues affecting
classrooms like yours.
Data shows that the vast majority of
classrooms across the
country are still led by qualified educators but, with the
challenges facing the teaching profession, can it hold?
Teacher preparation programs
across the
country have signed on to addressing the
challenge of the DOE's four guiding principles to assure that there is «no uncertainty of whether a learner entering a PK — 12
classroom or college lecture hall will encounter a teacher or instructor fully capable of taking advantage of technology to transform learning» (U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Technology, 2017, p. 37).
They have not become any less complex or any less pressing, and as much as some policy makers would like to discover a single solution that can help all students, or address the myriad of
challenges teachers have to manage in
classrooms across the
country, such «silver bullets» remain elusive.
Like many school districts
across the
country, Franklin - McKinley School District is seeing
challenging behaviors in the
classroom.