Sentences with phrase «existing teacher training program»

The program will compete with the existing teacher training program, and the president knows this well.

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Both initial certification programs, which happen mostly at the undergraduate level, and master's in teaching degrees, which provide additional training to existing teachers, have only a limited impact on teacher effectiveness.

In teacher preparation programs, if preservice teachers receive any kind of training, it's generally short discussions or readings in their existing education courses (Chamberlin and Chamberlin, 2010).

Existing programs include the Academy for Urban School Leadership in Chicago (training 53 this year), the Boettcher Teachers Program in Denver (16), and the Boston Teacher Residency, which currently (2007 — 08) has 84 participants and plans to have 100 to 120 candidates next year.

Tucker also said that the school has plans to expand Brooklyn LAB's existing three - year teacher training and residency program to the new high school.

The $ 9 million program, which will be housed in the district's West Side Avenue headquarters, will provide training for new and existing administrators, as well as «teacher - leaders,» according to district spokeswoman Maryann Dickar.

Once law, HB 4 will allocate grant funding to existing pre-K programs that require additional teacher training, meet specific curriculum requirements, and increase parental involvement; however, the legislation does not expand the state - funded pre-K.

«We can either try to repair existing institutions, or we can replace them,» said Levine, who now leads the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Program, which supports training for teachers and education leaders.

The whole notion of diverting the best teachers away from the classroom and into charter school - run «training,» at a time when there aren't enough staff to even maintain existing programs, let alone enhance efforts to promote quality educational programs, is a farce.

Difficulties have existed in developing online teacher training degree programs that lead to a degree with a professional public school teaching certification, yet clearly, online institutions recognize the future opportunity in such efforts (Blumenstyk, 2003).

Keys to Literacy is a professional development program designed to train teachers to provide content literacy instruction embedded in classroom instruction using existing reading and curriculum materials.

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS • Introduced the IB System (International Baccalaureate) in PYP (Primary Years Program) which brought in tremendous interest from surrounding schools» students • Decreased paper wastage costs by 44 % by implementing «No Paper Days» on alternate work days • Increased efficiency of teaching staff by 30 % by enrolling them in intense teacher training programs • Overhauled the existing student records systems by introducing efficient electronic records systems

Reviews of policies and curricula pertaining to sexuality education have shown that while many countries have established curricula, little is known about their use in schools — the degree of implementation, the mode and quality of the instruction, the existence of program monitoring and evaluation tools, the adequacy and quality of teacher training, the level of support for or opposition to the subject, and the effectiveness of existing programs in achieving desired knowledge and behavioral outcomes among students.28 — 33 Small - scale reviews of school - based programs run by nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have been conducted in Kenya, but there has not been a review of the government's sexuality education program in schools.34, 35

Reviews of policies and curricula pertaining to sexuality education have shown that while many countries have established curricula, little is known about their use in schools — the degree of implementation, the mode and quality of the instruction, the existence of program monitoring and evaluation tools, the adequacy and quality of teacher training, the level of support for or opposition to the subject, and the effectiveness of existing programs in achieving desired knowledge and behavioral outcomes among students.10, 24 — 27 This report provides a detailed snapshot of how the policies related to sexuality education in Ghana are translated into practice and what students, teachers and heads of schools think about them.

The program, which included four days of training between January through September 2012, also explored mindfulness and reflective practice lessons and activities for elementary school students that teachers can easily incorporate into their existing Open Circle practice.