Those teaching the courses must either be certified by the
state in the specific content area and grade level or be have credentials through the college providing the course.
That's much quicker than in the past and should enable teachers to determine where to focus attention in the final weeks of school and which students need
help in specific content areas.
That would be impressive enough, but what's really extraordinary is that Prosser has been consistently closing the gap in achievement between Latino and white
students in specific content areas.
And in light of the recent critical study of teacher professional development by The New Teacher Project, schools and districts are asking hard questions about the impact of professional development on teacher practice
in specific content areas like math or literacy.
Determined by ground - breaking research analyzing approximately 4,500 content - area words, Word ID features targeted prefixes, suffixes, and Greek roots that were selected for their frequency of
occurrence in each specific content area.
It is recognized that to do so requires a deliberate course of study, including
coursework in a specific content area, and research and active immersion in the community of student and faculty scholars within the program and throughout the School of Education, the University, and the profession.
While the content - specific vocabulary is generally introduced to all students at the same time by the teacher who is
teaching in that specific content area, non-content-specific vocabulary is subject to the literary experiences and to the exposure that each student has had to words in books and through sophisticated conversations with the adults in their lives.
Also, scholars have stressed the importance of teaching teachers how to use technology in pedagogical
ways in their specific content areas along with instructional strategies linked to their teaching practices (Ertmer & Ottenbreit - Leftwich, 2013; Hew & Brush, 2007; Lowther, Strahl, Inan & Ross, 2008).
In most districts, while there tends to be a wide variety of professional development to help teachers
grow in their specific content areas, observers (including school leaders and coaches) tend to not have as many opportunities to hone their own practice.
Efforts to establish cross-disciplinary organizational structures represent a deliberate attempt to ensure that the potential of technology to facilitate
learning in specific content areas will be realized through successful curriculum - based technology integration in classrooms.
Because at the secondary level students are focused on a large variety of content, the LC Leader essentially «goes back to school» and immerses him /
herself in specific content areas, whether that is 10th grade English, Biology, or Geometry.
TEP students who pass the Massachusetts Tests for Education Licensure (MTEL)
in their specific content area (biology, English, mathematics, etc.) and in Communication and Literacy Skills, and who successfully complete the Program's coursework and fieldwork requirements receive a Massachusetts teaching license (valid for five years).
In fact, federal law mandates that states, districts, and schools assess students on an annual basis at specific grade levels and
in specific content areas.
This collaborative is intended to improve teachers» understanding of and expertise in the neurodevelopmental demands of teaching and learning
in their specific content areas.
CEC prides itself on being able to provide the right mix of consultants, with expertise both in building effective systems and
in specific content areas.